Album

Hip-hop popster gets rich telling girls to bend over

Psych-folk rarity from Quicksilver Messenger Service man

A collection of Farlowe's Immediate and best-known recordings

Superb value-for-money three-CD collection

Red-eyed ambient metal droning

Fruity electro covers of obscure punk and hardcore

First album from cult band since 1967

Ex-Swell Map recruits famous mates for career-topping set

As a rule of thumb, most of those vertigo albums that didn't sell in the early '70s now go for silly money on eBay. The reason they didn't sell is that most of them were crap. Jade Warrior were a cut above. True, they couldn't make up their minds whether they wanted to be Cream or Jethro Tull, so they settled for a drum-free combination of both. The swirling flutes and abrasive guitars bring a certain restless beauty to "Dragonfly Day", "Psychiatric Sergeant" and "Sundial Song", although the carefully crafted textures are often let down by mediocre lyrics

Post-punk vets prove their staying power with self-selected best-of