Misunderstood visionaries release 'unfinished'fourth album

Reissue of Mr Echoplex's 1977 classic

In the early '80s, energised by hip hop and electro, New Order produced a string of acts for Factory under their short-lived studio moniker Be Music, the results of which were greeted with indifference on these shores. Quite why is hard to fathom since, as Twice As Nice attests, tracks like "Sakura" by Section 25 and "Motherland" by RFATP were taut, bewitching slices of robo-funk that still excite today. The other producers herein (Arthur Baker, Mark Kamins and Donald "Dojo" Johnson of A Certain Ratio) all had their moments, too.

Brummie fops' weird wilderness years

Another trip down the well-worn path of the Drake archive

A three-CD journey through the English underground of 1967-1975

Mighty compilation of LA country-punk pioneers

Twenty-one-track greatest hits from Welsh genre-hopping psychonauts

The album that established the late rapper's reputation

Blanche come here haunted by associations— chiefly leader Dan Miller's with fellow Detroiter Jack White. The pair shared several bands before Jack's vault to fame, and moonlighting Blanchers made up half his Loretta Lynn-backing Detroit supergroup The Do-Whaters. Blanche also supported The White Stripes last year, and bunked with them on this UK trip.