Album

Startlingly inventive poetry&sound outing by two of the brightest boys in the class

Four-CD box and DVD on the story of an extraordinary musical dynasty

Previously unreleased 1974 tribute to a former beau

The last two albums prior to his farewell LP, The Wind, Uncut's Album Of The Year for 2003

Debut solo album proper from one half of most successful duo in rock history

Former God Machine frontman rediscovers the heavy rock within him

Solo debut from the Sugarcubes' other voice

50 Cent's ill-conceived follow-up to Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

Reissued best-of follows renewed interest in scabrous post-punk politicos

It's an unlikely story: avant-garde cellist sees the light in a disco glitterball at New York gay club The Gallery and decides disco is the ultimate modern format for exploring minimalist composition. In the mid-'70s, Russell—conservatory-trained, a scholar of Eastern music forms, steeped in the ideas of Steve Reich and Terry Riley—was blown away by the engulfing quality of music transmitted over a massive club sound system and literally entranced by disco's use of repetition.