Album

Exquisitely frosted debut from Toronto's Tony Dekker

Undeservedly obscure synth duo reappraised

Louisiana legend hits the comeback trail

Tucson's finest bring their unique compression of American musical styles to DVD with a London concert recording

Second album from Robin Guthrie's post-Cocteau Twins project

The Cole Porter of the Lower East Side adrift in his own wake

Startling label debut for Bay Area singer/harpist

Originally released in September 1969, left Beck's second album read like a superstar summit meeting, but for the guitarist it was just another day at the office. He'd already replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds, supported The Beatles in Paris, and appeared in Antonioni's movie Blow-Up, livening up the psychedelic club scene with some extreme axe-mangling GBH.

Forty songs extracted from records found in the Beatle's portable jukebox

Recorded for MTV's acoustic strand in 1994, this catches the Mighty Zimm midway between the raw-boned graverobbing of World Gone Wrong and Time Out Of Mind's resurrection shuffle. A respectable, if slightly sterile flick through his back pages—"The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Like A Rolling Stone"—though he seems most fired up by newer material like "Shooting Star" and "Dignity". Not the stuff of legend, but not to be sniffed at.