Album

Seventeen singles that reached pole position in the UK, US or Europe, plus new R Kelly ballad

Classic prog rock repackaged

Three individual box sets featuring miniature CD facsimiles of every EC single from 1977 to 1987

The dark lord lightens up, relatively

Winsome Australian duo's third album

Postmodern country from balmy-voiced Lambchopper

Not so much a greatest hits as a musical autobiography, including new tracks and re-recorded B-sides

Twenty seasonal helpings of doo wop, country, blues and rockabilly

Formed around the original Ants, Bow Wow Wow were often dismissed as a cheap and nasty imitation of Adam's tribal formula. If anything, they were bolder, singing about tape piracy ("C30, C60, C90, Go!") and satanism ("Prince Of Darkness") while their Burundi-Drummers-meets-Ennio-Morricone interface often left the Ants trailing.

Woad-caked, ultra-heavy rock from the West Country