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Almost two years on from their second album A Hero's Death, Ireland's fast rising guitar team Fontaines DC drop their third offering, Skinty Fia. The band have already shared its lead single 'Jackie Down the Line', and if that's anything to go on, we can expect a somewhat more mature slant on their guitar-fuelled sound, leaning more towards The Smiths and even Billy Bragg than the more rockist posturing of the past.FONTAINES DCSkinty FiaPartisan

AK CHAMEL THE GIVER OF ILLNESSThe TotemistAkuphone France

2013 album. Lord Huron have an uncommon talent for creating songs that offer the very essence of what it is to be human - embracing wonder, finding love, fighting death, cherishing honour - while granting them an almost heroic beauty extracted from the mountains, valleys, forests, deserts and lakes that have blessed mankind with their beauty for ages. Ends of the Earth' opens the album with a spirited harmony that could rank alongside Robin Pecknold's best. First single 'Time to Run' may be idyllic folk with world music influences, but its hook is as radio-ready as anything off Peter Gabriel's iconic So or Paul Simon's Graceland.

Casse Gueule est constitué de l'excentrique chanteur Jonn Toad, et de Pierre le Dentiste et Mathieu Philippe de L'Isle, manipulateurs de synthétiseurs Moog et Korg. Après L’important c’est d’aimer (2014) et Dictature et mendicité (2016), Mannus est le troisième long format du groupe. Dans ce concept-album d'anticipation, il sera question de téléchômage, du manger fabriqué avec les poubelles et d’autres situations absurdes dignes de l’univers de Pierre La Police, qui signe la pochette de ce stopéra de plusieurs chansons imparables à mi-chemin entre DAF, Queen et Daniel Balavoine.