Reviews

The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup

London-based pop collective's chewy hits in expansive format

The Jacksons & The Jackson 5 – The Very Best Of

Blameless boogie from two distinct golden eras

Southern Belter

Much-travelled Carolinian marks return with compelling, grown-up pop record

Pet – Player One Ready

Electro-pop from the heart of Europe

Bill Lloyd – Back To Even

Nashville power-pop godfather returns

Mull Historical Society – This Is Hope

Diminishing returns from Scottish multi-instrumentalist

Blue Gate Crossing

Made-in-Taiwan teen flick

Panic Room: Special Edition

David Fincher's homage to Hitchcock (the North By Northwest title sequence, Howard Shore's score, the Rope/Vertigo-like apartment-as-stage conceit) finds Jodie Foster as the beleaguered mum trying to stay one step ahead of Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto's housebreakers

Hoover Street Revival

The idea of Ralph Fiennes' sibling shooting a doc about God and guns in South Central LA is inherently tiresome. But, in fact, Sophie F manages to get inside the soul of this torn community. Grace Jones' pastor brother Noel is as fake as any pulpit rhetorician, but his Hoover Street church is a revival of hope.

Moloko – 11,000 Clicks

Shot at Brixton Academy at the end of Moloko's 2003 tour, this is a limp wander through the band's hits which even Roisin Murphy can't lift. There's none of the inter-band tension that a year on the road might have generated, and they even manage to mangle "Sing It Back". For devotees only.
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