Hurtsville $17.99 (AUD) Third album for Sydney's Jack Ladder, following 2008's Australian Music Prize-nominated and Red Bull-awarded Love Is Gone. First album to feature Ladder's backing band The Dreamlanders: Laurenz Pike (PVT), Kirin J Callinan (ex-Mercy Arms) and Donny Benet. | Zulu $26.99 (AUD) | Conor Oberst $17.99 (AUD) This recording was made in Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico during the months of January and February 2008. In Tepoztlan, a place known for Aztec Magic and Extra-Terrestrial Sightings, a temporary studio was created in a mountain villa called Valle M stico at the outskirts of town. | From The Roots Up $17.99 (AUD) It's rare these days to find a pop star who values the concept of subtlety in their music. But then, Delilah seems to have ended up as a pop star by happy accident rather than by design - and her debut album, From The Roots Up, is an object lesson in the value of doing things your own way. Having first emerged as a hook singer on Chase & Status's huge 2010 anthem "Time" - and cut her teeth performing with the dubstep duo during their triumphant No More Idols tour - the Parisian-born, London-raised singer is ready to step out on her own. As such, her musical education was vast and deep. There are echoes of disparate greats in her music that pique the ear - the sombre sophistication of her sound harks back to trip-hop pioneers such as Massive Attack and Portishead; the subtle soulfulness of her voice contains tinges of Sade and Aaliyah; the oblique confessionalism of her songwriting is somewhere between Tori Amos and Amy Winehouse. Meanwhile, her immersion in the London clubbing scene fo |