Album

Hip hop from Aussie all-female collective

Swan song from Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's post-punk trailblazers. Includes five add-ons

Former Eurythmic's break-up album

England's blue-eyed soul boy goes back to his roots

Delicate, multi-layered esoterica from UK improv innovator

Second album from Japanese Mogwai

Marvin'n'Jim's classic of subtlety and restraint, digitally remastered with extra tracks and a bonus hits DVD

Before the epidemic, primitive '80s garage dementia from UK's suburbs

Round-up of Felix Da Housecat's prodigious '90s electro-disco productions

Following the attention heaped upon 2002's lovely I'm Coming Home, Norway's most famous ex-postman Thomas Hansen began to wilt, preferring to "hide behind the beer". Straightened out and under the wing of producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop), Hey Harmony is the product of a frantic's week recording in Nashville, spotlighting the 26-year-old's Anglophilia and US country-folk leanings. Sort of Neil Young and Donovan tripping at The Wicker Man's solstice fest.