Album

The Fall – A Touch Sensitive: Live

Capturing the ramshackle chaos and converse musical tautness of new millennium Fall, this professionally filmed gig in Blackburn from September 2002 is a connoisseur's delight of old faves ("Mr Pharmacist") and recent classics ("Two Librans"). A great fan souvenir, blighted only by Mark E Smith's foolish decision to allow some leery Mancoid guest singer to ruin "Big New Prinz".

This Month In Americana

Hawaiian guitarist/pedal-steeler's expertly bottled Pacific breeze

Sluts Of Trust – We Are All Sluts Of Trust

Impressive bass-free post-hardcore debut

Throbbing Gristle – The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide To The Music Of Throbbing Gristle

Introduction to the work of recently reformed art/industrial/electronica collective

The Saddest Trip

Superbly packaged box set of all five Garcia solo discs, plus oodles of outtakes

Cinerama – Get Up And Go

David Gedge tunes his guitar. David Gedge drives to the garage. David Gedge buys a Ginster's sausage roll. That's about the sum of this inadvisable fly-on-the-wall tour documentary following Cinerama, Gedge's post-Wedding Present cinematic grunge-pop ensemble. A shame, since they're a good band with great songs (only last year they got a No 1 in John Peel's Festive 50), but as a visual accompaniment this is utterly depressing.

Kate Maki – Confusion Unlimited

This 27-year-old neuroscience major and former school teacher will no doubt elicit comparisons with fellow Canadian Kathleen Edwards, not least due to the sharing of producer Dave Draves and guitarist/mentor Jim Bryson. But Maki is softer and sweeter, with a faint copper tang. There's something disarming about her gently fluttering country-folk delivery, more akin to Sarah Harmer or Shelly (Blue Ridge Reveille) Campbell.

Mission Of Burma – On Off On

Impressive reunion for post-punkers

Egghead Over Heels

Sonic visionary's first four vocal solo albums; no extras, just untrammelled invention

Pentangle – The Lost Broadcasts 1968-1972

Long-lost session tracks retrieved from BBC transcription discs and cleaned-up AM radio broadcasts
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