Album

Ninth studio album from underrated Atlanta twosome

Three-CD box lays claim to Ray's status as rock's first star

Inflammatory debut from much-vaunted Detroit quintet

Recorded at shows in Verona, Naples and Rome, this is as close to a Morricone live album as we'll get (given he's in his late seventies). The maestro conducts a 90-piece orchestra and 100 vocalists through a dozen selections from his (over) 400 scores. It's as gorgeous as you'd expect. Beginning with, to this reviewer's ears, his finest work—Once Upon A Time In America—it lopes, veers and swoops through themes and purple passages from, among others, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Cinema Paradiso and Once Upon A Time In The West.

Electroclash doyen lost in hipster ghetto

Fresh out of jail, singing songs of freedom

Classic 1964 live recording, long revered by collectors, finally given official release

Harrison's six albums, recorded 1976-1992 on his own Dark Horse label, available individually with extra tracks and as a deluxe box set with bonus DVD

Frustrating fourth from once-visionary British white soulster, again released on his own label

Raunchy bad-ass garage-sleaze