Album

They Might Be Giants – The Spine

Quirky duo display backbone on 10th studio album

Brooks – Red Tape

Dark, ambitious second album from fast-rising Derby producer

David Cross – It’s Not Funny

Hilarious US left-field comedian

The Twilight Singers – She Loves You

Diverse, patchy covers album from Greg Dulli

Burning Sensation

Magnificently barmy indie-opera from NY's squabbling Friedbergers

Joss Stone – Mind, Body And Soul

Sophomore effort from Devon's teenage would-be-soul empress

Ween – Live In Chicago

Though Ween spent over a decade growing into one of America's biggest cult bands, renowned for a live show of bad taste and dizzying chaos, this is a curiously tame, professional fair. Brothers Dean and Gene blow through a lengthy 26-song set with flawless musicianship, but with the passion of a band who know they are knocking on and that the juvenile japes are wearing thin. One for Ween devotees.

Bettye Swann

Country-soul class from the vaults

Various Artists – Studio One Funk

Nineteen Jamaican 'versions' of US soul/funk tunes

Frank Zappa – Joe’s Corsage

Early Motherly love from Zappa vaults
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