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Magical acid-folk from New York bothy

Dotcom burnout revitalised by redundancy

Offbeat debut by London-based quartet

Californian funk fusioneers' finest

Star-crossed line-up shines on underrated singer's catalogue

Twenty tracks of peerless French pop art

Some may come and some may go, but Fairport go on forever

Zbigniew Preisner (there's one for the Scrabble match) is Poland's film music god, having scored Kieslowski's Three Colours and Dekalog. His work here for the overblown, befuddled Thomas Vinterberg turkey is tastefully shimmery, and strident only when necessary. Perhaps he could lease it out to an infinitely superior movie, which shouldn't be hard to find. Among Vinterberg's hilarious sleevenotes is a ludicrous boast: "It's all in the film... including an excellent song I wrote. It is in Latin, and just as there are seven days, there are seven words in the song.

Genius signs off with his first duets album alongside Elton, Norah Jones et al

Long Island punk-funk revivalists'third LP