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Californian country-folk belle lets the sunshine through on excellent fourth album

OMD were always the most reasonable of electropoppers, and much of their eponymous 1980 debut album resembles a sixth-form music project with songs ranging from the endearingly daft ("Red Frame/White Light") to the accidentally profound ("Messages"). Organisation, released six months later, is what they turned into after they had listened to Joy Division; few hit singles have been as darkly ironic as "Enola Gay".

First time on CD for post-Morrison freakout album recorded in California

Compilation of London trip hoppers' four albums to date, plus two new cuts

Latest volume of 20 full-length 12-inch classics from '70s and '80s

Double CD featuring Velvet Underground chanteuse's solo comeback material from early '80s

Three-disc overview of Billy Idol's brigade

Today's New York rockers, posturing Gotham dance music and yesterday's post-punkers from Blighty

Sixties group and session work from Britain's first truly 'modern' guitarist

First two albums from late-'60s Frisco proto-grungesters notorious for being "loudest band on the planet"