Album

Dazzling, genre-dodging debut from young American five-piece

Mekons singer from Venus takes on the men from Mars

Confederate quintet follow last year's Decoration Day with strapping sixth LP

Underrated US singer-songwriter employs appealing simplicity

The new hick hop movement starts here

Mississippi bluesman remixed for the hip hop generation

The duo's 1994 take on Unplugged, which involved recording new material in Morocco and rearranging old Zep songs with Middle Eastern flavours and musicians, was a brave but preposterous conceit. Filmed in a Welsh valley, in a slate quarry and cross-legged with locals in Marrakesh, they're only really credible and incredible in their natural environment—a stage.

Misunderstood visionaries release 'unfinished'fourth album

The best of Bill Nelson's undervalued art rockers, coinciding with reissues of five original Be-Bop albums

Epic two-CD 'vinyl junkie' retro-mix from Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs