Reviews

The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy complete, plus selective Daevid Allen solo cuts over three CDs

First extracurricular project from New Order bassist, plus EP tracks, demos, remixes, new recordings and bonus CD of old but unreleased material

True story of controversial Australian murder trial

When filing clerks answer back

A contemporary coming-of-ager about a fiery 12-year-old Maori girl (Keisha Castle-Hughes) and her bid for the hyper-masculine tribal throne, Whale Rider is full of apposite Disney pluck, yet simultaneously shot through with a worthy, odd and inexorably cloying adoration of the mystical juju in Maori tradition.

A strange one, this, with Bowie's usually obsessive control seemingly relaxed enough to have allowed packaging that looks cheap and hurriedly slung-together. The content, though, is better—a straight documentary, punctuated with live and video clips, and interview snippets with Bowie, Iman, Iggy Pop, Trent Reznor and Moby. There's lots of rare early stuff but, for all his eloquence, the music does the talking best of all.

Six tracks of bliss from new singer-songwriter

Debut album from spiritual kin of Grandaddy and Flaming Lips

Second album from the stentorian UK rapper, the Harry Secombe to Roots Manuva's Spike Milligan

The songs The Beatles gave away rediscovered