Album

Solo debut from drippy Californian renegade and erstwhile DJ Shadow associate

Motown's mighty sax man on two twofers

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

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