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Album

Miaow – When It All Comes Down

Cath Carroll's complete 'C86' years

Jimmy Scott – Falling In Love Is Wonderful

First proper release in 40 years for landmark in American popular singing

Various Artists – Glass Onion:Songs Of The Beatles

Black artists reinterpret the Fabs

Hot Hot Heat – Make Up The Breakdown

This month's New Strokes. Disappointing

The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight

Follow-up to MTV-friendly Gran Turismo

Loudbomb – Long Playing Grooves

Bob Mould alter-ego gets heavy on the dancefloor

Dayna Kurtz – Postcards From Downtown

Powerful debut after a decade's tough luck from hard-bitten New Jersey singer-songwriter

Calla – Televise

Doom-laden noodling from NYC's latest press darlings

Department S – Sub-Stance

With NYC's bright new hopes (Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) openly worshipping at the altar of scratchy early-'80s UK punk-funk (PiL, Gang Of Four), it now seems doubly outrageous that Department S were denied the release of this like-minded debut at the time—"Whatever Happened To The Blues" alone is 20 years ahead of Radio 4. An even greater shame that singer Vaughan Toulouse (who died of AIDS in 1991) isn't around to savour the overdue recognition this should grant him.

Shooting Star

The Big Star flew solo, jumped back to his Southern roots, then went live in London
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