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Cool album title, cool band, but what about the music?

Don’t Dance Rattlesnake is a drunken party record full of songs about infidelity, jealousy, girls and drinking. The songs are built around great melodies, yet drip with malice and attitude – but what else would you expect from a band with all the swagger of The Strokes and the lyrical style (albeit with an American accent) of Arctic Monkeys? “She said jealousy is something that distracts you/I said it’s hard to focus with your fingers in his belt loops.”

Singer Michael Trent might be the skeeviest man you’ve never met, but his vocals bring to to mind Julian Casablancas; jumping between lazy drawl and overexcited yelping from track to track. Dark and grimy sleaze-rock at it’s very best, Don’t Dance Rattlesnake is a feedback-drenched drunken slur-along of an album, but shucks, there’s just something undeniably likeable about the whole thing.

There’s a danger that they’re a bit too knowingly cool, but who cares when they turn out albums that are this much fun?

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Fans of classic rock don’t need to keep on returning to those Led Zep discs because Ireland’s The Answer have just as much rock coursing through them as the legendary dinosaurs.

One year after Rise was first released this is the two disc special edition re-issue. Although the first CD is the same as the original, the second disc is filled with B-sides and unreleased tunes. The booklet has also been expanded to 20 pages and the whole thing comes with a card slipcase – not that that’s really a selling point, but just thought you’d like to know.

Like Jet at their best, The Answer trade in traditional blues rock, and they do a damn fine job of it too. Tracks like Under The Sky, Keep Believin’ and Into The Gutter can hold their own against pretty much any other rock song you care to mention, with the only difference being lead singer Cormac Neeson’s fine pipes which will blow away any comparisons you care to make.

Whether you’re a tradrock fan, or just getting bored of the relentless slew of wimp-metal taking over our ‘rock’ radio stations, Rise is one hell of an album, and The Answer are one hell of a band.

You really should buy Rise here.

An album of cover versions of songs that your Dad might have liked. Great.

Tesla have been around peddling their turgid rock forever, and now they are covering some of their favorite songs that were originally released in the ’60s and ’70s. The band recorded the songs old school as well with tape instead of Pro Tools.

With covers of songs Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, The Beatles and the Stones, you have to wonder why they would go to the trouble of recording an album’s worth of tracks that are never going to be as good as the original, all accompanied with a so-so singer. An exercise in pointlessness from start to finish.

Buy it here if you must.

Montreal five piece The Stills have returned with a bravely bittersweet follow-up record.

The band have moved on from the Interpol-esque sound of previous album Logic Will Break Your Heart, and made the decision to paint on an altogether broader canvas.

Love, regret and frustration still permeate the lyrics, but musically it could be a different band with a reliance on piano and minimal guitar-work.

Songs like Monsoon are filled with gently burbling organs and chiming guitars combined with pounding bass, while The House We Live In is led by an almost processional drumline.

It’s not a quick and breezy listen, but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded. Each song will reveal a new gorgeous layer with each listen. Without Feathers is the sound of a half-forgotten childhood holiday; cheerful and wistful at the same time.

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If you didn’t know better (and you obviously do because you’re reading this) then you would swear for the first 25 seconds of this song that you were listening to The Magic Numbers.

The jaunty beginning which melts into a cool summery sound is pure Romeo and co, but soon the distinctly Liverpudlian vocals, with echoes of The Coral and The Bandits, kick in and we know we’re dealing with a less-hairy prospect.

The Sonic Hearts’ lush harmonies are perfect sitting-in-the-sun listening, and with Hold On’s nice and short running time it deserves some serious radio play.

The single will be released as a limited-edition 7-inch record (on ‘Everton blue’ vinyl apparently) and as a digital download on 16th July.

Be a clever clogs and buy your copy here.

Hold On is released on July 16.