Reviews

Dashboard Confessional – MTV Unplugged V2.0

Second full LP from emo icons, with one new song. Plus Unplugged DVD

John Cale – 5 Tracks

Pro Tools-engineered collection and the Welsh legend's first new material since 1996's Walking On Locusts

Breathless – Behind The Light

Prog-rock magic from the original 'ethereal' enigmas

Medicine – The Mechanical Forces Of Love

Return of LA's My Bloody Valentine

Stereophonics – You Gotta Go There To Come Back

Welsh alt.rockers attempt to recast themselves as soul-funk heavyweights

Various Artists – Wild Dub: Dread Meets Punk Rocker

Essential chronicle of 1977-81 punk-dub soundclash

Martha And The Muffins – Metro Music

Smartarse new-wave Canucks re-release sprightly electro-punk debut

Back To The Futurism

The Dame's cracked glam classic lavishly repackaged

A Snake Of June

Kinky voyeurism and body horror rule

L.I.E.

Brian Cox delivers a towering performance as a paedophile ex-Marine in director Michael Cuesta's finely judged and exquisitely filmed drama from 2001. Co-starring screen novice Paul Franklin Dano as the teenager lured into Cox's orbit, L.I.E. refuses to make simplistic moral judgements in its exploration of this topical yet taboo subject.
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