Micachu - Jewellery (English experimental pop, debut album) Weezer - Raditude (American pop rock) Radiohead - “These Are My Twisted Words” (English art rock, non-album single originally released for free via the band’s official website) Paramore - Brand New Eyes (American emo pop / alternative rock) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (American / English hard rock / alternative rock, debut for supergroup featuring members of Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin) Silversun Pickups - Swoon (American alternative rock / shoegaze) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (American psychedelia / indietronica) Powerman 5000 - Somewhere on the Other Side Of Nowhere (American industrial metal) They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science (American children’s music / edutainment, concept album themed around science) Sonic Youth - The Eternal (American alternative rock / experimental rock, their final studio album) The Crystal Method - Divided By Night (American elec
New Order - Low-Life (English synth pop / post punk) The Cure - The Head On The Door (English alternative rock / post punk) Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (American psychedelic rock / alternative rock) Descendents - I Don’t Want To Grow Up (American punk rock) Butthole Surfers - Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis (American hardcore punk / psychedelic rock, EP) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Scottish noise pop / alternative rock, debut album) Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea (Scottish dream pop / ethereal wave, the first of three EPs released in the same year) “Weird Al” Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid (American song parody / comedy music) Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (English art pop) Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine (Scottish dream pop / ethereal wave, the second of three EPs released in the same year) The Power Station - The Power Station (English/American funk rock, supergroup featuring Robert Palmer and members of Duran Duran and Chic) Arcadia - So Red The Rose (English po