Album

Best-of to mark 20th anniversary of Weller's experimental post-Jam outfit

Unheralded Chicago-based tunesmith comes of age

Fast-rising blues-rock duo release debut LP after tour with Primal Scream

Northern rock alliance have Love on their minds

Budget-priced samplers of clubland's hot new microscene

Also released this month...

Handy two-CD career retrospective of ill-starred singer who happened in Monterey

Not especially distinguished albums reissued

Double whammy from Seattle's multi-faceted finest

For a man so steeped in the honeyed hickory grit of Gram Parsons, newcomers to Bruntnell could be forgiven for mistaking his English 'burb origins for Bakersfield, Ca. New Zealand-born, Surrey-raised and westward soul-bound, he finally drew acclaim with 2000's superb third LP, Normal For Bridgwater. Its follow-up is equally fine, studded with guitars (courtesy of 21-year-old James Walbourne and Son Volt's Eric Heywood), faint washes of piano, peals of steel and a forlorn, imagistic delivery and way around a melody reminiscent of Joe Pernice.