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

Recorded last December at the end of the 2003 world tour, it's spooky watching Gary Brooker singing "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" so many years after it scored 1967's summer of love. Yet his voice hasn't altered one iota. A third of the 21 tracks come from their 2003 album, The Well's On Fire. But it's old favourites like "Homburg", "Shine On Brightly" and "A Salty Dog" that command all the attention.

The late thespian's MGM curio from September '67

Another tasteful Soul Jazz series rolls on

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut