Reviews

Sophomore offering by Portland pop-folkies is a concept album of sorts

Welsh punk tykes enjoy a nice scream

Hip-hop popster gets rich telling girls to bend over

You'd have to be Scrooge (or rather Mr Potter) not to recognise Capra as a film-maker whose delight in the human spirit produced some of the finest, sharpest comedies of vintage Hollywood. Here's four of'em-Jimmy Stewart in You Can't Take it With You, Mr Smith Goes To Washington and everyone's festive favourite, It's A Wonderful Life, plus 1934's It Happened One Night. Heart-melting brilliance.

The mother of all bitch-fests

Japanese horror remake, with Sam Raimi on board

Psych-folk rarity from Quicksilver Messenger Service man

A collection of Farlowe's Immediate and best-known recordings

Superb value-for-money three-CD collection

Red-eyed ambient metal droning