Album

Third album proper from ex-Boo Radley Martin Carr

Seminal '80s country-punks repackaged

Dolls man hooks up with MC5 guitarist in predictably volatile combination

Demented third from Grammy-nominated Liverpudlian misfits

Listless ambi-minstrel recruits post-rock royalty

Third nu-soul album by sometime writing partner of D'Angelo

Blustery rock by former chill-out heroes

Recorded at the LA Troubadour in 2000—and gaps like that never bode well. Though it covers moments when the band were at their defiant best—"Olympian", "For The Dead", "Fighting Fit"—it still feels like they're going through the motions. And that's a shame as Gene always had a lot more to them than their ill-deserved reputation as Britpop fops. Worth seeing for what could have been.

'70s soul/country turns from The Killer

All the 45s from the sublime Scottish duo who briefly threatened to become part of the '80s pop circus