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Monday • LITTLE ANNIE: 10 Killer Monday • SPITFIRE: Bare Doll EP out Monday • MIKE PETERS: Breathe Hurtz More (On-U Sound) Steamy ' (Lowlife) Indie noise from Brighton - (Crai) Dubbed “the album The Alarm dub that sounds like put-fakes from ' out now# STATE OF GRACE: Hello never made”. Must be good then - Madonna's 'Erotica' - out now • THE 1 ' (3rd Stone) Three new tracks of out Monday • PROLAPSE: Pointless NAKED SEE: Faceless (Human biissed-out dance - out Monday • Walks To Dismal Places (Cherry Red) Condition) Full-tilt anthem of anguish SUBLIMINAL CUTS: Le Voie Le Soleil Debut from Leicester cacophonists and frustration from fiery quartet - (XL) Piano-driven dance with more with punk-beat attitooode - out out now • NEW MODEL ARMY: bite than a starved rottweiler - out Monday • REEL TO REAL: Move It W V n ACACIA: The More Vengeance (Abstract Sounds) Three now • 2 IN A ROOM: El Trago (The (Positiva) Booming bogle from people y Jj you ignore Me new mixes marking tenth anniversary Drink) (Positiva) Hip-hop house from responsible for ‘I Like To Move It’ - (Alchemy Arts) . of clog-wearers’ debut album - out Washington Heights - out Monday. out Monday • SHADY: World ‘Ironic’ Morrissey now •P IN K FLOYD: High (Beggars Banquet) Ten-song debut cover set to a bhangra beat-out Hopes/Keep Talking (EMI) Double A- I * 1 | AUDIO ACTIVE: We from unpredictable former Mercury Monday • THE ALOOF: Society side taken from The Division Bell’ - ' I * Are Audio Active Rev frontman David Baker, with star (Heavenly) Distorted UK out Monday • PUSSY CRUSH: Kill cast including The Boo Radleys - out techno/dub/hip-hop/acid house noise You (La-Di-Da) Indie chaps from I Monday • SNAP: Welcome To ■ ■ B i (°n‘u Sound) - out now • AUTECHRE: Anti (Warp) Sussex fresh from recording a Peel Mysterious dub Tomorrow (Arista) Disco crap, you Charity single for Liberty featuring sesh - out now • REESE PROJECT: should know better by now - out now from band who claim to be from SUEDE: Dog Man Star (Nude) The grandiose return of Brett Anderson CJB-busting B-side free of law The Colour Of Love (Network) Big • JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION: another planet (natch) - out now • and co with ambitious and occasionally stunning second album - out EDITED BY JOHNNY DEE breaking repetitive beats - out now • disco tune with fruity keyboards - out BYOB: Byob (Ryko) Free-wheeling Orange (Matador) A blues/rock album Monday VERUCA SALT BRAND NEW HEAVIES: Spend Some now • ROSA MOTA: Asbestos Frenzy excursion through R&B, hip-hop and that ROCKS. Buy, buy, buy - out Time (ffrr) New acid jazzy tune from (Mute) Boisterous guitars and (Permanent) 12th solo album from Aussie rockers - out now • THE Monday • TWISTED SISTER: Live American Thighs jazz - out Monday • THE CULT: The (Hi Rise/AII formats) band who gained success and lost infectious pop songs - out Monday • Cult (Beggars Banquet) Full-on rock former Genesis guitarist - out now • JAZZHOLE: Smile (Permanent) Hip (Music For Nations) Rockers who credibility - out Monday • dEUS: Via THE SANDALS: Open Toe (London) from the Astbury/Duffy team - out HAWKWIND: The Business Trip (EBS) jazz swing from American collective - proved wearing make-up and tight TO THE converted, Chicago's Veruca Salt are a junior Breeders, (Island) Young guitar noiseniks’ Chunky funky fusion of downtempo Monday • DEPRESSIVE AGE: Live album of spacey groovy rock out now • LAIBACH: NATO (Mute) spangly clothes is not big and harnessing feisty female harmonies to warm grunge spurts and single from forthcoming ‘Worst Case jazz, dance and rap - out Monday • from the grandfathers of the universe Seventh album from barmy madmen, certainly not clever - out Monday • snaking, shuddering rock-outs. To their dissenters, they are... a Symbols For The Blue Times (Gun) junior Breeders: fuzzy, over-rated, this week's Next Big Thing from Scenario’ album - out now • SEEFEEL: Fracture (Warp) Buy this or Hardcore thrash metal from brooding - out now • HICK: Hobo Funk featuring inspired covers of Europe, THEE HEADCOATEES: Ballad Of The (Hollywood) Double debut of bare, Pink Floyd and Status Quo - out Insolent Pup (Vinyl Japan) Third across the Pond to be swiftly filed away with Ivy, Helium, Velocity GENERAL LEVY & APACHE INDIAN: sit in a tube station and listen. Sounds Berliners - out now • DONE LYING Girl and the rest of the second division. The New Style (OutCaste) the same - out now • SLEEPER: DOWN: John Austin Rutledge acoustic guitar hubbub - out Monday Monday • MERCYLAND: Spillage album from muttley punk boys and In other words, your appreciation of this meaty debut album will Jungle/ragga crossover from duo big Bucket And Spade (Insolent) Limited (Abstract Sounds) Debut from • HEADLESS CHICKENS: Headless (Ryko) Loud, melodic pop from girls who just wanna have fun - out largely depend on whether you consider Kim Deal the Bitch Queen on ‘the streets’ - out Monday • JAH edition release from stompy post-PC storming indie types - out now • Chickens (Mushroom) Debut from top former band of Sugar bassist David Monday •ZIONTRAIN: Siren of Post-Nirvana Rock or a Mid-western housewife who got lucky. Like Deal, Louise Post and Nina Gordon have no time for girly WOBBLE: Amor (Island) Third single mob available at gigs or on mail ERIC’S TRIP: Forever Again (Sub Pop) New Zealand indie band - out Monday Barbe - out now • THE MOLES: (Universal Egg) Live album of wibbly from Top 15 LP Take Me To God’ order, priced £1, from Sleeper, PO • H-FQUNDATION: Laika (Bomba) Instinct (Fire) Encyclopedic mix of wobbly world music - out now • feyness. Nail-biting horror-grunge is their forte, best embodied in 18 songs from fuzzy Canadian boys their magnificent first single 'Seether', a four-minute David featuring Chaka Demus & Pliers - out Box 3305, London, SW9 8BG • and girls-out Monday# Crazed slab of experimental dance - indie, jazz, psychedelia - out Monday VARIOUS: Reach For The Sky Cronenberg movie with scary lyrics about some shadowy child- Monday • JTQ: JTQ EP (Acid Jazz) SPARKS: When Do I Get To Sing My FORBIDDEN: Distortion (Gun) First out Monday • HOODOO GURUS: • NEW FADS: Love It All (Play It (Skratch) 12 hardcore rave anthems monster who can only be controlled with bizarre disciplinary Five tracks of Hammond mastery Way (Arista) Lamentable comeback release in four years from Bay Area Crank (Play It Again Sam) Energy- Again Sam) Third album of reflective, featuring Love Nation and DJ measures: "I try to cram her back in my mouth". Eh? from seminal Acid Jazz band - out from blokes who had ’80s hits - out tastic garage trash from enduring seductive and infectious grooves - Seduction - out now. It's a flesh-crawling masterpiece of drop-dead cool and buzzsaw thrash quartet - out now • STEVE riffola, all the more so for its deliberately obscure subject matter - is HACKETT: Blues With A Feeling it about a possessed daughter? A volatile lover? The horrors of (19) and Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall (20). TWE KINKS, Ray Davies’ seminal pop band, Sunderland Empire (17). Redcar Bowl (18) Forum (28), Southampton Hobbit (29), babysitting? celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘You Really and Birmingham Alexander Theatre (19). .. Worthing Factory (86), Northampton Race Inevitably, it also towers above most of its companions here. Post FLAMINGOES pretty boy popsters with Got Me' raking in more pennies at Glenrothes Horse (November 1), Derby Wherehouse (3), and Gordon excel at dirty great metalloid riffage, but they have yet modish tunes, play Harlow Square (October Hall (October 16), Aberdeen Capitol (17), MAGIC HOUR, Bostonian quartet including two Kent University (4), Middlesbrough Rumpoies to fully tame their melodic poppy side. They have mastered the L7- 7), London Splash Club (8). Cardiff Club Glasgow Barrowlands {18}, Oldham QEH (20), former Gaiaxie SCKters, play London Camden (5), Croydon Cartoon (16), Nottingham Otd style axe antics - check out the lurching satire of machismo 'All Hail Iforbach (19), Bath Moles (20), London Brentwood Centre (22), Cheltenham Town Dublin Castle (October 17), B1 rmIngham Angel (11), Birmingham University (12), Me' or the humungous scuzzgrunge stomper 'Get Back' - but most of their slow-burners dissipate into aimless trundling. Highbury Garage (21), Sheffield Leadmill (23), Hail (23), Eastbourne Congress Hail (24), Hibernian (18), Leeds Duchess Of York (20), Lufon University (13), Birmingham Hibernian There are exceptions, notably the doomed beauties 'Twinstar' and THE ALMIGHTY, hard-rockin’ bad-ass moth as Hull Adeiphi (26), Sunderland Dexy’s (28), Halifax Victoria Hall (26), Worthing Assembly Edinburgh Wilkie House (21), Chester Jones’ (15), Brighton Concorde (.18), Walsall Bobbies 'Fly', who mercifully reach beyond effects-pedal overload for from Scotland, promote their ‘Crank’ album at Chelmsford Army & Navy (3) and Rugeiey Halls (27). Croydon Fairfield Hall (28), Poole Bar (23). Leicester Princess Charlotte (26), (17) , Bedford Esquires (18), Exeter Cat Club something more classic and universal, while '25' is your genuine Belfast Mandela Hall (November 10)tDublin Red Rose Theatre (4). Arts Centre (30). Blackburn KGH (31), London Camden Russell Arms (28) and Derby (19), Salisbury Old Age House (23) and Corby scarf-waving anthem, blooming gloriously into a full-on guitar : Tivoli (11), Middlesbrough Town Hall (13), Shrewsbury Leisure Centre (November 2)7 Whorehouse (31). Nags Head (25)/ supernova finale. But there are still slightly too many gaps in Veruca Salt's masterplan, dry patches in which superwaif tunes vainly try to Edinburgh Usher Hall (14). Dundee Gaird Hal! rry raaawk and Barnsley Civic Centre (3)t York Barbican (4), compete with steroid-pumped Schwarzenegger riffs on their own (15), Liverpool Royal Court (17). Glasgow technotechnotechno at Portsmouth University Norwich UEA(8), Hamel Hempstead Pavllllon THE MONEYGQDS. under-rated West Midlands PET LAMB Dublin’s melodic noisecore terms. : Barf owl ands (18), Bradford St Georges Hail (October 6). Oxford Jericho Tavern (7), (7K London Shepherds Bush Empire (8), Ironists, give out free pies and love buns (I) quartet, preview ‘Sweaty Handshake’ album at 'American Thighs' has got rock firepower to spare.