Album

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

Non-stop erotic cabaret singer goes East to form Buena Vista Socialist Club

Marvellously convoluted virtuoso mayhem

Second album from junkyard-cowboy Manchester quartet

Classy comeback from former Cream man

Best Of for envelope-pushing dance trio

The best of compilation: a time to reflect upon a career, including even the early mishaps that eventually shape one's body of work. That's how it should be, anyway. It's telling reflection on the control freakery and uptight nature of Primal Screen that they've chosen, like some pampered footballer or insecure soap star, to relate a sanitised autobiography with Dirty Hits, ignoring their early but substantial first recordings as both fey indie janglers and one-dimensional rockers.

High-class moodtronica from ex-punk emo boffin

Wanna hear Colin Farrell sing "I Fought The Law"? Now's your chance. How exciting! And... he's Shane MacGowan. I'm not having it. Colin, you sound like a Kilburn High Road dosser and your attempt to be a rock god has lasted 34 seconds with me, most of which were the (admittedly exhilarating) guitar intro. The law won. This is all very Oirish (the film's set in Dublin), so as well as U2's "Out Of Control" there's The Thrills' "One Horse Town" and something drippy by Clannad.

Trio of Brazilian superstars pool resources to win a Grammy and sell a million records