Album

Mats Gustafsson – Sonic Youth With Friends

NY free-rockers in Scandi scream-up

War – The Very Best Of War

Californian funk fusioneers' finest

Various Artists – Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo

Star-crossed line-up shines on underrated singer's catalogue

A Natural Woman

Intense, peak-period live set featuring two previously undiscovered Nyro songs

Nick Nicely – Psychotropia

Faithfully rendered psych-pop, 14 years after the event

Raising Helen – Hollywood

Latest soppy Kate Hudson vehicle— you have to wonder what her Black Crowes hubby makes of it all— features an eclectic pop selection, with a few little smashers more by accident than design. Devo's "Whip It" and Liz Phair's "Extraordinary" are about as daring as it gets, while there are decent if overtly radio-friendly offerings from John Hiatt and Joan Osborne, plus the resurrected Simon & Garfunkel's too-cute-to-shoot "At The Zoo".

Beached Boy

Third set from Sussex singer-songwriter following last year's widely acclaimed From Every Sphere

Pat Sounds

The most Californian band in Dublin turn their heads homewards

Style Cancel

Hits and misses on the Modfather's first album of cover versions

Charlotte Hatherley – Grey Will Fade

'Superfluous' Ash lady proves she was born to be in the band
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