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Philadelphian psych-rockers continue their long, strange trip

Brilliant minimalist NYC hip hop

Clever but irritating one-man band from Chicago

The Floyd's classic gets dub-wise makeover

Confident reworking of historical protest songs by anarcho-punksters

New York weirdos make a strange, glorious noise

The poet laureate of hooliganism returns

OMD were always the most reasonable of electropoppers, and much of their eponymous 1980 debut album resembles a sixth-form music project with songs ranging from the endearingly daft ("Red Frame/White Light") to the accidentally profound ("Messages"). Organisation, released six months later, is what they turned into after they had listened to Joy Division; few hit singles have been as darkly ironic as "Enola Gay".

Inspiring second album of garage blues

Compilation of London trip hoppers' four albums to date, plus two new cuts