A UTUMN always brings a strong clutch of new LPs, so in the next issue we’ll be looking at promising returns from Clinic, Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe, Yes, Grouper and Howlin Rain, plus La Luz’s self-titled album and Shannon Lay’s Geist. The cupboards are bulging in the archival section, too: highlights include Bob Dylan’s Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol 16 (1980- 1985), Faust’s 1971-1974 boxset and a 30th-anniversary deluxe reissue of Violent Femmes’ Why Do Birds Sing?.