Album

Latest volume of 20 full-length 12-inch classics from '70s and '80s

Slung-together bargain-priced selection

Fundraiser featuring Public Enemy, Ms Dynamite and a reformed Crass

No Captain, but a Beefheartless supergroup assembled from various Magic line-ups

Debut album from London-based 24-year-old

First album in four years from survivors of star-crossed Southern rock behemoth

The Pastels always seem to find their wheelbarrow positively overflowing with acclaim, though some of us have struggled for over a decade to remember what they actually sound like. Here they wibble along, inoffensively enough, through a 25-minute accompaniment to the recent Brit road movie directed by David Mackenzie. It climaxes, if that's not too bold a word (it is), with a Jarvis Cocker collaboration, "I Picked A Flower", a parody of a pop hit which demonstrates that Cocker used up all his parody power a while ago.

Double CD featuring Velvet Underground chanteuse's solo comeback material from early '80s

New compilation in surround sound, plus unreleased Johnny Cash duet

Low-key return by former Spencer Davis Group and Traffic star