This week in music: new albums from Joywave, Fu Manchu and The Tibbs. Also: hockey music, in defence of Coldplay??, fulfilling your contractual obligations, hair grunge, shifting air, Kingi of the desert, swing revival survivors, TOCB, too much work, the fine line between enjoyable and annoying, deluxe edition origin stories, bluegrass Turbonegro and Cletus hiphop.

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