Clash

Fine funky follow-up to 2001's Felt Mountain

Classic youth cult soundtracks to ITV's Sounds Of Underground London series

First Jesse Malin's solo debut, now Concussion—if anything, this is an even finer record than The Fine Art Of Self Destruction. Steve Earle described Ryan as "one of the best songwriters I've seen come to Nashville", and he's no bullshitter.

Third long-player from playful Franco-house pioneer

Philip Glass at his most minimal, repetitive, and inexplicably, magically, affecting. Apparently, Michael Nyman wrote a score for this, too, and was sore when Glass won that particular clash of the titans. Which, you have to concede, has a touch more aesthetic loftiness about it than "Ugly Noel tells someone to fuck off". It's lovely, though if we're candid, not as lovely as we were hoping. Many reviews of the film decried the music as over-insistent, which is akin to describing George Bush as a genius.

Detroit duo follow up their Resuscitation singles collection

Remember Joe this way

The homecoming Boy has come a long way

Second from retrograde avant-pop Londoners

Miss Kittin collaborator plots future of electro on his first commercially available mix disc