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Mugison's follow-up to last year's acclaimed Lonely Mountain debut is the score to a Fridrik Thor Fridriksson film, recorded in a church and in his girlfriend's mum's front room in remote Western Iceland. Fridriksson (whose last, Falcons, boasted a song by Keith Carradine) has also used Sigur Rós and Psychic TV in the past (on Angels Of The Universe), so this isn't (quite) as wilfully obscure as you might assume. It's very rough, broken and sketchy, with minimalist acoustic guitars probing spectres of melodies till they crystallise (or don't).

Virginia's insurgent country queen dazzles on first live album

Lashings of syrup from the selfless champion of good causes and queen of the lovesick

Guitar-free noise freaks barely dodge prog-rock tag for the third time

If Mary's never quite convinced the world she merited that "the voice of R&B's future" hype, she's godhead to believers: 5,000 funked-up fans fill the LA Amphitheatre here. Her first concert DVD, it finds her belting through I'm-so-damaged-but-the-merchandising-revenue-sure-helps material like "No More Drama" and "Your Child", and duetting, weirdly, with big-screen images of Lil' Kim and BIG. CHRIS ROBERTS

Unreleased tracks by undervalued jazz vocalist, covering 1960-1979

Roundup of gothic huckster's hits

Vicious power-electronics from cult US act

Forty-six of the songs used, over the last couple of years, to sell us shit. A work of undeniable postmodern genius in itself, then. But does it function? In the case of KFC's selections, yes. So soulfully orgasmic are Laura Greene's "Moonlight, Music And You", The Chi-Lites' "What Do I Wish For?" and Jackie Wilson's "Who Who Song" that you'd gladly eat the food to be near them.

Second album from the bright, underrated rapper