People often think of Sweden as the spiritual home of cute, cardigan-clad indie-pop – but there’s something sinister going on. Fever Ray is out scaring the living shit out of people, The Tough Alliance are getting their hooligan on, and then there’s the mysterious duo known only as jj.

Watch “The Ring” – the first video to be taken from Jamie Lidell’s new album ‘Compass’ (out May 2010)

The duo known as UNKLE – James Lavelle and Pablo Clements – will return with their new album ‘Where Did The Night Fall’ this 7th May on Pod / Surrender All. Boasting guests including Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age), Katrina Ford (TV On The Radio, Celebration) and psych lords The Black Angels and Sleepy Sun; the new album is UNKLE’s most epic effort yet!

Watch We Have Band move around in grey and yellow jumps suits, in the first video clip off their debut album.

The Melbourne trio OTOUTO are hitting the road to promote their new album, ‘Pip’ – out now on Two Bright Lakes. OTOUTO have an eclectic set up of instruments with tin pan drums, quirky keyboard sounds and jangly guitars, accompanied by a twin vocal attack which will stun audiences around Australia.

Recently, L.A’s HEALTH staged an epic tour of Australia. However, if you missedthe headbanging action, you might get a buzz out of the latest instalment in Pitchfork’s “Daytripping” series. Watch the boys dance and thrash around on stage as they perform “Crimewave” at SXSW 2008 and check their fire arms skills at the shooting range.

Watch Darwin Deez’s quirky video clip for his single “Radar Dectector”

Following an acclaimed tour of Australia in 2009, L.A’s Flying Lotus will release his new album ‘Cosmogramma’ this 30th April on Warp (Aphex Twin, Autechre, Battles, Hudson Mohawke) through Inertia. Blending Californian hip-hop beats and bass-heavy dubstep with surrealist jazz and kaleidoscopic IDM, Flying Lotus is one of the most prodigious talents to emerge in electronic music this decade.

The Besnard Lakes have been Montreal’s best kept secret for a while now. Those who thought they could keep the band all to themselves though, have got another think coming with new album ‘The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night’. Not only is it better than anything they’ve ever done (big statement, I know), but it’s louder, bigger, and ballsier.

Having just finished a whirlwind Australia tour including the Playground Weekender festival, electro-soul crooner Jamie Lidell has announced his fourth full-length album, ‘Compass’, out 14th May on Warp Records. Featuring appearances by Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Wilco’s Pat Sansone, the album is Jamie’s most exhilarating, eclectic and diverse yet.

Hype and hypebole aside, The Soft Pack are just dudes making loose tunes. Based out of L.A, they play the kind of care-free jams you could blast while rollerblading down the broadwalk at Venice Beach, or chilling out in the convertable you’ve been restoring all summer. Think early-Strokes, except born of Californian sunshine rather than New York grit.

There’s more sweat, struggle and emotional turmoil in Frightened Rabbit than a tear-jerking, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season finale – and it has a better soundtrack. The new album manages to hit dramatic heights, without ever sinking into melodrama.