Album

Second album from Moby's alter ego

Debut from US-fixated Yorkshiremen

Duane and Greg on top form on expanded edition of live '71 double LP

Flat broke folk/baroque rock

Swoony Californian dreamscapes in the vein of Mazzy Star

A return to traditional song, exquisitely sung, in a perfect setting

All-female tribute to country's First Lady features her own reworking of title track

Nashville legend's formative years unearthed

After the voracious onslaught of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut, Are You Experienced, Hendrix throttled back a little. For the band's second album, Axis: Bold As Love, the sound was lither and more fluid, indicating that there was more to him than the faintly racist caricature of the sex-hungry, gimmick-happy Wild Man Of Rock. Rough glimpses of his burgeoning versatility and easy self-confidence are in evidence on this two-disc collection—though such is the quality of these outtakes that the emphasis is generally on rough.

Those folky solo years of the late Face