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Eighties 'fireside soul' queen's first album in 10 years

Unlikely comeback from Santa Cruz bohos

Dazzling, genre-dodging debut from young American five-piece

More "Woo-Hoo"s from Tarantino's rock'n'rolling geishas

Pop hack sounds polished but slack

Royal Trux rise like a filthy phoenix

Immaculate debut from late developing troubadour

There's a dark rumble to Massive Attack's instrumental score for this Luc Besson-produced martial arts movie, arranged by Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge in 21 miniature sequences. Many of these are a minute or so long, so it's hard to cite them as anything special, and the nagging feeling persists that there's been an element of smoke and mirrors about this outfit's fashionable misery since their heyday. Those pieces that are allowed time to breathe suggest greater depths, like "One Thought At A Time", which clocks in at a whopping four minutes plus.

While There's Much wrong (the script, the acting, the smugness) with Channel 4's slick, rather silly series about transatlantic lovers who are struggling against the odds but, like, have shedloads of money, the soundtrack's wilfully hip. Granted it's put together by the kind of people who think Snow Patrol are cutting edge, but in liking what the music press has told them to like, they've packed an impressive stash of new-ish white boy music onto this.

Mini album of delicate electronica