Album

Career-spanning best-of for New Jersey's finest offers a generous helping of rarities

Self-styled "desert-surf-redneck" rawk from the other side of the tracks

Inordinately well-connected new rapper

One of pop's great female voices turns to standards, with starry guests

Modfather becomes third in celebrity compilation series

Five-CD mid-'60s anthology of The Duke

Greatest hits from their major-label years

Debut manifesto from Coalville's best mining rapper. Do not mistake it for a comedy record

There's something novel about this concept: the soundtrack of a book. While the realistic word for it is probably "cross-marketing", the hapless dreamers among us can ponder: are we supposed to listen to the relevant song while reading Hornby's chapter on it? Even if we don't possess posh headphones like the pretty model on the sleeve (entirely inappropriate unless the album is also a bottle of conditioner), are we to aim for a music-literature 'synergy' experience? I've just tried skimming Little Dorrit while headbanging to lggy and, frankly, it doesn't work.

Adams' career is fast becoming a blizzard of lost possibilities and abandoned trails, with his 'proper' album releases, such as Gold and Rock'n'Roll, punctuated by closet-clearing collections of outtakes like Demolition and now Love Is Hell Pt 1, the first instalment of the album supposedly deemed too much of a downer to be the 'proper' follow-up to Gold.