Abandoned

Playing patience under African skies

Charting the life of a disfigured Peruvian child

Rock'n'soul action from vocalist Shawn Smith and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard

The American fighting forces skillfully ridiculed

Satisfactory comeback album from '80s hit-makers

Fine Godspeed-like soundscapes from Montreal collective

Bizarre and beautiful trio of tragic love stories from Hana-Bi director

Her first major album in a decade, featuring Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow and father Johnny

Romantic tunes played a big part in British reggae charts in the late '70s and early '80s as a new generation of aspirational, British-born black kids abandoned roots reggae in favour of our first indigenous black pop style—lover's rock. Many of the tunes were nothing more than insipid cover versions of UK pop or US soul hits, but the movement yielded a clutch of genuinely moving songs such as Sharon Forrester's "Silly, Wasn't It?" (incidentally, Melody Maker's reggae single of 1974) and Janet Kay's 1979 Top 3 hit "Silly Games", both featured here. More recent

James Bond returns in an unconvincing digital makeover