Album

Tenth solo LP from former Police guitarist

Yet another live album from that model of maturity, Library Lou

Eclectic debut from talented Irish auteur

Self-styled English chansonnier tears through 21 of David Bowie's finest

Captain Trips, Bobby Ace and co ring out the old, ring in the new.

Watching the fabbest of all fours in their first US press conference, puffing away on cigs and deflecting inane enquiries, you feel proud to be a Brit. "Sing something for us!" "No, we need money first." Could Justin Timberlake—or Julian Casablancas, for that matter—be half as sarcastic? Imagine waking from a 40-year coma and coming afresh to these extraordinary scenes: four scouse charmers off the plane with their matching suits and Pan Am shoulder bags.

In Francis Ford Coppola's liner notes to this extended, remastered release of the soundtrack to his 1982 classic, he confesses he told Tom Waits and producer Bones Howe, "What I really want you guys to do is make an album called One From The Heart and then I'll make a movie that goes with it." In the event, both were deliciously melancholy works of art. The film was panned. The music, however, was universally loved from the get-go. It's the best thing Waits has ever done. The horror is that it could so nearly have been Bette Midler, not Crystal Gayle, duetting with Tom.

Fine outing from rapidly maturing white American blueswoman

Debut album on Chris Blackwell's new indie label from Nuyorican global adventurers

Powerful first UK album release from Moog-driven Pittsburgh trio