Reviews

Blues-influenced US troubadour's best yet

Blue Thumb label-era Love. Includes a ho-hum summit meet with Hendrix

Two essential seminars from country-rock school of midwifery, the latter including a clutch of unreleased obscurities

Undistinguished '60s vocal group

Wry indie tragicomedy sees idiot safebreakers on the rampage

You could argue a case for Funny Face or Breakfast At Tiffany's, but this William Wyler rom-com—now 50 years young—is perhaps Audrey Hepburn's shining moment. An incognito princess who leaps into love with journalist Gregory Peck (well, we can all dream), you'd have to be brutish not to catch its spark. And Rome's not bad-looking either.

This cult item came about in 1976 when Claude LeLouch fastened a camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and sent it on a high-octane, outlaw street race, burning up the boulevards of Paris. No roads were blocked off, no stunt drivers used. Everything you see is real. It's fucking astonishing. Available online at www.spiritlevelfilm.com

Jarmusch, Buscemi and Strummer veer off the beaten tracks with Elvis

Debut solo album from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier

Gentle, refined French jazz