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Solo album from Giant Sand man recorded in Denmark

Hazy 12th album from perennial indie favourites

Time-travelling movie filmed in a single, uncut shot

Debut solo outing for ex-Teenage Fanclub sticksman

Boxed three-disc set exploring the historical context surrounding the '30s country-blues guitarist

The sequel to Robert Rodriguez's maniacally good Spy Kids, with budding-Bonds Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara up against a rival team of adolescent agents and the monsters of mad scientist Steve Buscemi's fantasy island. Suggesting a Ray Harryhausen movie invaded by the screwball surrealism of a Looney Tunes cartoon, it ups the first film's formula of candy-coloured cool stuff for kids and in-jokes for grown-ups. Quite fantastic.

Arizonan soundtrackers make ill-advised foray into space rock

The Big Star flew solo, jumped back to his Southern roots, then went live in London

US chanteuse covers the songbook of lo-fi LA maverick

Further helpings of articulate and soulful intensity from highly-acclaimed British singer-songwriter on the follow-up to his Mercury Prize-nominated debut from 2001, Here Be Monsters