Album

First quartet of LPs by San Francisco's trans-love aviators, remastered with bonus tracks

Cherished US singer-songwriter back on form

The legend behind such blaxploitation classics as Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an incalculable influence on Tarantino and Spike Lee, recorded this in 1974. Fundamentally, it's him growling over "funky grooves". A born philosopher, he opines that "A Birth Certificate Ain't Nuthin' But A Death Warrant Anyway", and, after bemoaning the fact that he'll never visit every bar in the world, claims that "between a woman's breast is the thickest thorns you can ever lay your head on". We'll look out for that, Melv. Godlike, of course.

Debut by improvisational guitar god Derek Bailey's new five-piece band

Machine dance from (mostly) European eggheads

The seedbed of punk

Expanded '66 debut by Andover's finest

Solo album by big-in-US band leader

Unheralded Pennsylvanian trio conjure up more quiet magic

Delightful tribute to country womanhood