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Radio-friendly Norwegian beat mavericks raised on R.E.M. and Teenage Fanclub

New digital version with no shortage of bonuses

Inveterate remixer (Pulp, St Etienne, Talvin Singh) chills out with some downtempo classics

Cleveland County bluegrass legend and Foggy Mountain Boy wows Newport festival crowd, 1959-66

West Country power pop brothers gonna work it out

Babylon burns on reggae superstar's nu-roots stormer

Japanese prog band keep genre alive

Underwhelmed as we are by franchise McBlockbusters, this score's by the really rather talented Howard Shore, who was responsible for the coolly sexy sounds which rippled under David Cronenberg's Crash. His soppy strings for the first Baggins movie won him all manner of awards and made the UK Top 10. This one is distinguished by its remarkable guest vocalists: Iceland's Emiliana Torrini and former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser—from "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to Gollum and Samwise: it makes a kind of sense, no?

Cinematic album of moody instrumentals from Madder Rose duo

Double CD compendium from Mancunian Deee-lite