Album

Debut album from French graphic designer and film-maker

Emotive album from London-Irish laptop folkie

Beats'n'ballads nu-folk fusion

The poet laureate of hooliganism returns

To some, the Captain's 1982 No 1 romp through Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Happy Talk" was the ultimate punk sell-out. Silly beggars! It was, of course, a hilarious act of screwball subversion. Either way, its Goonish novelty was unrepresentative of the two albums that followed. As the best bits collated here show, solo Sensible traded in the same satirical Englishness as The Kinks and Madness ("Croydon", "A Nice Cup Of Tea").

Ambitious but overbearing young Aussie outfit make identikit MTV-oriented debut album

Eight-track mini album from maverick singer-songwriter

Follow-up to acclaimed 2001 debut by British-Asian singer

Quiet acoustic guitar in nocturnal mood

Third album from ex-Broadway actress