This week’s eclectic batch of new reviews includes a definitive collection of tracks from misery-pop legends the Smiths. The Sound of the Smiths contains two discs worth of the group’s best tracks as chosen by architects Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Barry Walters says, “Sound traces the quartet’s four-year evolution from savage tenderness to refined despair: Morrissey articulates both bleak romanticism and omni-deprecating humor, while Marr accompanies him with chiming, multilayered riffs.” Click below for the complete review, plus full reviews of new records by Hinder, Travis, Little Joy and White Denim.

• Album Review: The Smiths, The Sound of the Smiths

• Album Review: Travis, Ode to J. Smith

• Album Review: Hinder, Take It To The Limit

• Album Review: Little Joy, Little Joy

• Album Review: White Denim, Exposion