Album

Bipolar Expedition

Cult Canadian dandy grapples with his dual personality on third LP

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live At Berkeley

Further unreleased Hendrix material from 1970 concert

Sam Cooke

Pioneering soul legend's back catalogue finally gets respect it deserves

Billy Bragg – Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg

Two-CD retrospective from Barking's finest. Initial copies include limited edition CD of rarities

Rachel’s – Systems

Fifth and possibly best album from left-field chamber ensemble

Jonny Greenwood – Bodysong

Bodysong has been hailed as a kind of British Koyaanisqatsi, a poetic implosion of images swimming forth from birth to death. You need music for that, who're you gonna call? The Radiohead guitarist, plainly. Jonny Greenwood says this spacey set of instrumental ambience and interference isn't to be compared or contrasted with Radiohead, which means I can't just say it's creepy and often impenetrable. You probably have to watch the film in tandem: Philip Glass' use of repetition worked better with Koyaanisqatsi than as a wedding floor-filler.

Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham – L’Avventura

Luna spin-off go Lee'n'Nancy or Serge'n'Jane

Lyrics Born – Later That Day

Solo debut from drippy Californian renegade and erstwhile DJ Shadow associate

Junior Walker & The All Stars

Motown's mighty sax man on two twofers

Hares Apparent

First five albums (plus bonus tracks) by post-punk demigods
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