Zero

Notorious, long-delayed Korean shocker

Athens, GA septet deliver eloquently dreamscaped stopgap LP

Two-fer of late-'60s synth-rock oddities. Not that odd, really

Spike Lee's blazing take on 'last hours of freedom' tale

His Bobness kicks up a storm among the seven hills and proves he's still armed to the teeth

Three individual box sets featuring miniature CD facsimiles of every EC single from 1977 to 1987

Born out of Williamsburg's vibrant underground scene in 2000—and sounding not unlike the soundtrack to a painfully hip party there, Vic Thrill's debut is a fizzing cocktail of world music polyrhythms, camp theatrics and techno wizardry. The influence of Ziggy is evident throughout, but there are also strains of the kitsch disco of Pizzicato 5, the murky pop of The Frogs and snatches of the Happy Mondays and Underworld. Incessant and uptempo for much of the time, it is unmistakably danceable. As if entirely worn out, the record closes with the Grandaddy-esque "Zero Odds".

Set fire to anything. Set fire to the air," urged John Cale at the beginning of Music For A New Society. That 1982 masterpiece was the evisceration of a man whose fractured psyche was mirrored perfectly by songs arranged in jagged, improvisatory style; a knife held at the throat of sweetness. Now he reappears with his first album of songs for seven years, and his finest album in any genre for over two decades.

American singer-songwriter's debut underwhelms

Round-up of Felix Da Housecat's prodigious '90s electro-disco productions