Reviews

Ground-breaking German space-rock remastered by bass player Holger Czukay

While There's Much wrong (the script, the acting, the smugness) with Channel 4's slick, rather silly series about transatlantic lovers who are struggling against the odds but, like, have shedloads of money, the soundtrack's wilfully hip. Granted it's put together by the kind of people who think Snow Patrol are cutting edge, but in liking what the music press has told them to like, they've packed an impressive stash of new-ish white boy music onto this.

Psychedelic Soft Boy heads for Tennessee

Seventh studio album from Dean Wareham's durables

The Scorcher frees himself for an eclecticism off-limits to his pioneering country-punk band

Posthumous offering from the brilliant but troubled singer-songwriter who died a year ago

Third album by pick'n'mix pop candyman

Comic anti-hero Frank Castle on the big screen

France's answer to Mean Streets, Trainspotting and Do The Right Thing all rolled into one...

Recorded last December at the end of the 2003 world tour, it's spooky watching Gary Brooker singing "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" so many years after it scored 1967's summer of love. Yet his voice hasn't altered one iota. A third of the 21 tracks come from their 2003 album, The Well's On Fire. But it's old favourites like "Homburg", "Shine On Brightly" and "A Salty Dog" that command all the attention.