Album

36-track masterclass in larger-than-life rock

Roundup of Texan troubadour's seminal recordings

Multi-skilled Belgian brothers are not gonna work it out

Dark, brooding venture featuring Uncut photographer Steve Gullick and Gallon Drunk's James Johnston

Monochrome minimalists go Technicolor, with startling results Anyone familiar with 2002's Everybody Makes Mistakes could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled on the wrong band here. If that album was austere—a kind of aural porcelain—then Shearwater's third is a riot of movement and colour. They remain, in parts, as sombre-still as American Music Club, but now add more than a dash of Spirit Of Eden-Talk Talk and a whole heap of '70s FM pop. Soft-rock chamber music, if you will.

Powerful observations on the Irish condition from the new Christy Moore

A video compilation that's light on the '60s stuff but heavy on her years dressed as a member of Mötley Crüe: "If I Could Turn Back Time" is particularly fine. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" guest stars the young Winona Ryder (it was from 1990's Mermaids), "Love Can Build A Bridge" ropes in Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton, and "Believe" is that irritating gay anthem with the Vocoder hook.

London-based pop collective's chewy hits in expansive format

Blameless boogie from two distinct golden eras

Much-travelled Carolinian marks return with compelling, grown-up pop record