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Hitman who provided lavish productions for Frankie and Tatu oversees cult Scots' fifth album proper

High Llamas' guitarist's best solo album to date

Follow-up to 2000's much-lauded Maroon from Jimmy's offspring

Solo outing from Clannad singer moving into Enya territory

David Byrne is best known for his work with Talking Heads, Eno, a smash hit last year with X-Press 2, and his label, Luaka Bop. It's less well-known that he co-wrote the score for The Last Emperor (despite the fact it won him an Oscar) and has worked with theatre experimentalist Robert Wilson.

Ageless rock'n'roll motherlode reconvenes Stooges, toys with Green Day and hooks up with art-rapper Peaches

Seventh studio album from inveterate Beach Boys fans

Soul giant's first album since 1998's A Rose Is Still A Rose

Given the parlous state of contemporary jazz singing (Diana Krall? Elvis, how could you?), Lea DeLaria, a butch dyke from St Louis with a dirty mouth and a deliciously wicked sense of humour, is all the more remarkable. Growing up with jazz in her veins, she was previously best known as a comic (she's also been a Broadway star), but singing is clearly her vocation.

Enjoyable set from garage veteran