Magnet - Tourniquet

US version features one bonus track, 'This Bird Can Never Fly'. Magnet's third albumTourniquet is the follow-up to his 2004 release on Your Side. When Magnet (aka wunderkind Even Johansen) isn't soundtracking the surreal death parlour angst of Six Feet Under, he's letting his bone-dry-with-angst insides spill out onto the stereo while a 58-piece orchestra gently weeps like a big girl in the background. Like a modern-day Scott Walker, Johansen splices gorgeous folk-driven melodies with buzzsaw beats, male voice choirs and the kitchen sink breaking into a million floaty pieces. The likes of highlight 'The Pacemaker' are the sound of a laptop slowing sinking to the bottom of the ocean, anchored by My Morning Jacket's tangled beards. Best of all, though, is the way that 'The Tourniquet' displays the kind of classic songwriting spliced with darkly-hued futurism that Chris Martin failed to deliver on Coldplay's new album: time to put down that copy of 'X&Y' and take up with 'The Tourniquet' instead - Music Week. Universal.

1) Hold on
2) Duracellia
3) The Pacemaker
4) Believe
5) All You Ask
6) Deadlock
7) Fall at Your Feet
8) Blow By Blow
9) Miss Her So
10) Jaws
11) This Bird Can Never Fly