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The mighty Lemonhead gets seven-year-itch and returns a much-changed man

Sleazy balladeer's finest, with liner tributes from Beck

North London fops' third album, remastered for 20th anniversary

Esteemed wacky Welsh group's early years plus Ankst two-CD retrospective

Cath Carroll's complete 'C86' years

With NYC's bright new hopes (Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) openly worshipping at the altar of scratchy early-'80s UK punk-funk (PiL, Gang Of Four), it now seems doubly outrageous that Department S were denied the release of this like-minded debut at the time—"Whatever Happened To The Blues" alone is 20 years ahead of Radio 4. An even greater shame that singer Vaughan Toulouse (who died of AIDS in 1991) isn't around to savour the overdue recognition this should grant him.

Shockingly good three-CD archive of UK prog-rock

Handy two-CD career retrospective of ill-starred singer who happened in Monterey

Unmissable reissue of No Wave don's two 1979 albums on one CD

Flaky, star-studded homage to the late, great Joey, Dee Dee and Da Brudders