The first Pacific Rim was an exhaustingly awesome movie that knew it was kind of dumb and didn’t care. Pacific Rim Uprising has little idea just how stupid it is.

The beginning of the movie gives a pretty obvious tell that this is going to be a trainwreck of Tommy Wiseau proportions.

It’s been seven years since Josh T. Pearson—the reluctant frontman of oddball Texas rock ‘n’ rollers Lift to Experience—released his debut solo album, Last of the Country Gentlemen. A maudlin, lugubrious affair, its quasi-spiritual songs dripped with a heavy sorrow that infiltrated your bones, that offered no sense of reprieve save for the raw, (fallen) angelic beauty of its seven songs.

Listen to Get Stoked On It! The Wonder Years’ 2007 first record-an album frontman Dan ‘Soupy’ Campbell has called a “train wreck” and which he’s regularly disinherited and written it off as a joke-and then to this sixth full-length, and you’d be hard-pressed to work out how the band that made the former ended up with something as majestic and sublime as the latter.

On Consolation E.P. Detroit scum-rockers Protomartyr collaborate for the second time with R. Ring members Kelley Deal (also of The Breeders) and Mike Montgomery to create a four-song Black-Lodge-dream of personal and political apocalypse.

With a more plunderphonic aesthetic than was present on her debut, Melody Prochet returns to the psych rock fray with a compact seven-track record, entitled Bon Voyage. Here, the Echo Chamber takes on a homegrown sound: with audio samples and spoken word, more nods to French ‘60s and experimental rock, and less homage paid to her Tame Impala ex-partner/producer, Kevin Parker.

For quite some time now, Lykke Li has specialized in soundtracking a particular kind of moment. So often on her previous releases, she has perfectly encapsulated a crossroad between being disillusioned with love whilst also being completely submissive in its presence.

When The Smiths ended their short but stellar career, there was no doubt the two most prominent members, Johnny Marr and Morrissey, would continue on successfully and impart their individuality upon the world of rock music.

Somehow, despite the overly complicated name, Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have been building a substantial amount of hype since their 2016 Talk Tight EP.