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Debut from raw Lincoln leather lads, seemingly in production since 1938

Icelander moves into new career phase with experimental vocal fantasies

East London upstarts' audacious LP

Long-lost Yorkshiremen's rousing return

Sophomore effort from Devon's teenage would-be-soul empress

Another lengthy hiatus, another Blue Nile album. Here Paul Buchanan revisits the same spot on the hillside overlooking the evening city lights, is still filled with the same surging, oblique melancholy and longing that has sustained The Blue Nile since 1984, is still crafting singularly mature MOR in a darker shade of turquoise all his own. This time, however, the overall return feels diminished in effect—"I Would Never", for instance, trespasses dangerously close to U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".

Wolverhampton maverick's third album

Songwriting duo who made up the important bit of Crowded House

Lumpen sequel to sci-fi actioner

Alias actress in coy but charming comedy