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The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Awful slapstick version of Conan Doyle's tale from 1978, with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (as Holmes and Watson) recycling old sketches badly as they head up a cast of vintage British comic talent (Kenneth Williams, Irene Handl, Max Wall). It's basically 'Carry On Sherlock', and it does the memory of all concerned no favours. DVD EXTRAS: Trailer, biographies, interview with director Paul Morrissey. Rating Star

Grand Mal – Bad Timing

NYC fivesome get their rocks off. Dave Fridmann produces

Pleasure And Pane

With Mushroom having left the band and Daddy G taking a sabbatical from the studio to concentrate on family life, it falls to Robert Del Naja (3D) to carry forward Massive Attack into the beyond, in collaboration with Neil Davidge, the producer of their third album Mezzanine (1998). Without Mezzanine's layers of guitar, which left some Massive Attack lovers narrowing their eyes doubtfully, 100 Windows seems at first subdued. Much as shapes only gradually reveal themselves in an initially pitch black room, so it is with this album, which takes a few listens to become accustomed to.

Mad At Gravity – Resonance

Dull debut from rated nu-metal quintet

Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves – Drive It Like You Stole It

Spiky, spunky Leeds singer-guitarist's debut, recorded in Austin with Spoon

The Go-Betweens – Bright Yellow Bright Orange

Unusually potent comeback continues

Sir Douglas Quintet

Tex-Mex pioneer who prefigured country rock in the Beatlemania era

Flower Power

Twelve-year chronicle of demos and live cuts from '90s keepers of pop flame

Various Artists – Great Day Coming

Wide-ranging anthology of classic gospel tracks

Strange Daze

Quirky, trippy rom-com from Magnolia/Boogie Nights director
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