Album

Agit-rap veteran mellows out too much on his fourth LP

Three-disc box of electro pioneers' early dabbles

Gripping spoken-word companion piece to those classic Dylan albums of the '60s

Late-'70s folkloric Tull gets a makeover then takes a step too far

Jack Black's favourite band reignite garage rock's flame on second LP

Something is stirring in country music.

Deathless proto-ambient dinosaur that punk could not kill returns for 21st-century remake

Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman keeps it bluesy

Part-new album, part-remix project from post-rock supergroup

Ten years ago, as Sonic Boom's new sleevenotes attest, he and Jason Pierce were "making hypno-monotony" and smoking a lot of grass. Spacemen 3 were a cult on the brink of brimming over, which soon happened with the spin-off of Pierce's Spiritualized. Their penultimate LP as a pairing was The Perfect Prescription, here stretched to a double with the addition of various demos and unreleased sessions. In two modes, hippie-trance riffery and hushed faux-religious reverence, it's love-it-or-hate it puritan-rock. The drugs, clearly, worked for them.