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Out in the UK on Monday

Here's the notable stuff that's out in the UK on Mon April 27th...

Singles:

Detachments - "The Flowers That Fell" [Vid. Great debut from London 4-piece.]

The Maccabees - "Love You Better" [Vid. Good 1st single from their 2nd album.]

The Barlights - "Tickling" [Vid. Good debut single from Norwich 4-piece.]

Alessi's Ark - "Over The Hill" [Vid. Good 1st single from her debut album of the 18 year old London folk-popster.]

Morrissey - "Something Is Squeezing My Skull" [Vid. Terrible 2nd single from his 9th album.]

Albums:

Golden Silvers - True Romance [Vid. Debut from London trio.]

The Enemy - Music For The People [Vid. 2nd album from Coventry trio.]

Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar (Expanded Edition) [Includes 3 mediocre unreleased songs in an annoyingly jumbled-up tracklist.]

Morrissey - Maladjusted (Expanded Edition) [Adds all six b-sides, but deletes "Roy's Keen" and "Pap Jack", wtf? If they had left those 2 songs on there we could have had every song from that era on one nice disc.]

Peter Raeburn - You & Me [Debut album from Johannesburg-born, London-based composer of music for TV.]

UK Chart Report

Here's the notable stuff that entered the UK charts on Sun April 26th...

Albums:

• #2 Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe [Vid. Their highest charting album since Ultra.]
• #32 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career [Vid. Their highest charting album ever.]

Indie-label album chart:

• chart not updated

Singles:

• #9 Lily Allen - "Not Fair" [Vid. On downloads-alone, CD-single out in May.]
• #97 Placebo - "For What It's Worth" [Vid. On downloads-alone, CD-single out in June. Terrible 1st single from their 6th album.]

Indie-label singles chart:

• chart not updated

These singles did not chart:

• The Temper Trap - "Science Of Fear" [Vid. Great debut from Melbourne 4-piece.]
• The Big Pink - "Velvet" [Vid. Good 2nd single from London duo.]
• Golden Silvers - "True Romance" [Vid. Good 1st single from their debut album.]
• The Von Bondies - "Pale Bride" [Vid. Good 1st single from their 3rd album.]
• Burn The Negative - "Wonder Why" [Vid. Carlisle 4-piece. 1st single from their debut album.]
• John & Jehn - "Oh My Love" [No vid? One-off single from French boy-girl duo.]
• Je Suis Animal - "Mystery Of Marie Roget" [Vid. Female-fronted Oslo 5-piece. 1st single from their debut album.]