Welcome to this weeks album news, we hope that everyone had a great Australia Day. This week we have news from Bullet For My Valentine, Sleepmakeswaves, Stornaway and much more!

Welcome back to another installment of The AU Crew Poll! This time we asked our lovely contributors to tell us which albums are currently on high rotation and why. The variety of responses not only reflect the diversity of music tastes, but also how far in the past they went, as there were mentions of albums released over the last decade. Here are what some of our contributors had to say...

Day 4 took us off the grid to see two local surf bands (The Mighty Landsharks & The Nemotoads) at Cheapo Records, an unofficial venue. We also checked out Rachel Sage & Sequins in the registrant's lounge.