Reviews

18-track roundup of unsung songwriter

Hit us baby, one more time

Mellifluous Glasgow quartet remain invisible on solid career retrospective

First in five years from Brooklyn rapper

Full-length debut from Montreal's 28-year-old rock purist

Breakbeat virtuoso explores new pan-global pastures on solo debut

Star-studded double dose of live and studio work from country's original outlaw

The stars come out for Captain Kirk

At their mid-'70s peak, the stoner Laurel & Hardy personified friendly drug culture - and, accordingly, now seem dated. There are flashes of inspired humour, but only the most devoted pothead would want to wade through this box set, which contains Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (with Pee Wee Herman), Nice Dreams, Things Are Tough All Over, Get Out Of My Room and Cheech's solo Born In East LA.

Sidney Pollack directed, Coppola co-wrote, Natalie Wood, Robert Redford and Charles Bronson star; how come it's so disappointing? A Tennessee Williams adaptation, Wood plays a dreamy but slinky belle in a stifling Southern smalltown boarding house. She falls for golden stranger Redford?then gets left behind. Hard to swallow, but Wood is highly watchable, and the cinematography is exemplary.