Sleigh Bells new album “Reign Of Terror” is quiet ready, out next February 2012. “Born To Lose” is the first single in advance, same sort of cheerleader-like vocal chants and voraciously fuzzy guitar riffs of debut album.

I don’t trust anyone these days, and Islands isn’t helping by calling their new song “This Is Not A Song.” Fortunately, it’s a piano pop ode to moving on with supple guitar leads and a slowburn organ that will make you want to hold someone’s hand. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll open my heart again when Nick Thorburn and co’s new A Sleep & A Forgetting drops on Valentine’s Day on ANTI.

Veteran British indie band Kaiser Chiefs are back with a herky-jerky dose of mystery. “Little Shocks,” a sample from the group’s new album set for March 6, is certainly noisy new wave, but we’re a bit suspicious of its motives. “I don’t want much,” singer Ricky Wilson intones. “I’m happy with what I got.” That’s a great sentiment, yet the song sounds like something you would listen to while stealing important documents from a heavily-guarded government warehouse. Very sneaky, these guys.