Album

Embrace – Out Of Nothing

Long-lost Yorkshiremen's rousing return

Janet Jackson – From Janet To Damita Jo

Stats show that Middle America's "mass moral outrage" at Janet's Superbowl boob-bearing came from a noisy couple of hundred. Her career may survive, then, though no thanks to this year's scrappy LP Damita Jo. This gathers all the videos from the last four, the best of which is "That's The Way Love Goes", where she maximises her feline moves, timid voice, and gorgeous loping grooves. But she's definitely in decline.

Hollywood Rose – The Roots Of Guns N’Roses

Unremarkable dregs from the 1980s metal vaults

The Byrds – The Essential Byrds

Does exactly what it says on the tin

Julie Driscoll – Brian Auger & The Trinity

From Yardbirds' fan-club secretary to "the face of '68"...

They Might Be Giants – The Spine

Quirky duo display backbone on 10th studio album

Brooks – Red Tape

Dark, ambitious second album from fast-rising Derby producer

David Cross – It’s Not Funny

Hilarious US left-field comedian

The Twilight Singers – She Loves You

Diverse, patchy covers album from Greg Dulli

Burning Sensation

Magnificently barmy indie-opera from NY's squabbling Friedbergers
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