Album

The Texan troubadour tackles the Big Questions

Two-CD compilation of Doug Sahm's pioneering Texan outfit

Compilation of wistful folk delights

A companion piece to last year's sensual reimagining of Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger, Bozulich's latest offers two tasters from there ("Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"; "Can I Sleep In Your Arms?", with Nelson duetting) alongside the outré experimentalism of her live work. The ex-Geraldine Fibber revisits both 1997's "Arrow To My Drunken Eye" and the epic "Outside Of Town", sharding them with amplified strings, dissonant guitar and a voice like velvet studded with razor blades.

New Pornographer jumps into classic singer-songwriter stream head first

Succinct and soothing second album by Parisian quartet

Pure pop perfectionists have got a ticket to Ryde and they don't care

Final demos of Alabama's doomed blue-eyed soul boy

Telex chap's 1977 Moog-driven disco mini album

A concept album of sorts, the second solo release from the Mekons founder and Chicago-expat charts the rise and demise of honky-tonker Lofty Deeds as a metaphor for US history. Like all things Langford, though, it's not heavy-handed or portentous, the music rollicking like a midnight special braced against the hard wind of his uniquely British delivery.