Oddball compilations from late rock satirist's extraordinarily prolific career chosen by band-member fans
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Hoggboy – Or 8?
Debut release from Yorkshire four-piece follows on from support slot with The White Stripes
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
Double CD follow-up to last year's mainstream rap classic proves that bigger is rarely better
Satellite – Fear Of Gravity
Promising, optimistic debut from 21st-century Prefab Sprout
Junior Kimbrough – T-Model Ford
North Mississippi blues by unknown, ageing modern masters
Deathwatch
Horror story set among the trenches of the First World War
Singin’ In The Rain—Special Edition
If not, as it's perennially voted, one of the 10 greatest films ever made, 1952's Singin' In The Rain is at the very least the sharpest Hollywood musical bar none.…
Men In Black
Reissued as part of the Superbit series, Barry Sonnenfeld's witty and energetic spoof fields a wonderful tearning in sassy Will Smith and sardonic Tommy Lee Jones. "Searching for a handle…
Battle Royale—Special Edition
Troublesome teens? Round them up at random, dump them on a deserted island, armed to the teeth, and force them to fight each other to death. It works brilliantly in…
Pop Will Eat Itself – Pwei Product: Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology 86-94
Comprehensive compendium from indie-rap-rock Midlanders
Dreams Never End
Four CDs of Mancunian magic from New Order's back pages, including cherry-picked album tracks, B-sides, rarities, remixes and live performances
Jethro Tull
Remastered CD reissues of Lancastrian rockers
Kate Rusby – Ten
Folk chanteuse celebrates decade of balladeering
Chicago
Big-style brass-bolstered jazz-rock remastered
Meat Beat Manifesto – Ruok
Pioneering polemicist reinvented as sci-fi Moby
Noriko Tujiko – Make Me Hard
Electronic siren songs
The Sea And Cake – One Bedroom
Chicago indie jazzers' latest, featuring cover of Bowie's "Sound And Vision"
Short Cuts
Also released this month...
Days Of Thunder
Twenty-two tracks from Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour finally see official release
Manic Street Preachers—Forever Delayed
While serving as a complete visual history of the Manics from their early days as glammed-up rock'n'roll agitators—with Richey-to their currently more statesmanlike demeanour, Forever Delayed also shows how perfectly…