Album

Selective Wizzardry and solo material

Debut solo album proper from one half of most successful duo in rock history

Former God Machine frontman rediscovers the heavy rock within him

Solo debut from the Sugarcubes' other voice

50 Cent's ill-conceived follow-up to Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

Reissued best-of follows renewed interest in scabrous post-punk politicos

It's an unlikely story: avant-garde cellist sees the light in a disco glitterball at New York gay club The Gallery and decides disco is the ultimate modern format for exploring minimalist composition. In the mid-'70s, Russell—conservatory-trained, a scholar of Eastern music forms, steeped in the ideas of Steve Reich and Terry Riley—was blown away by the engulfing quality of music transmitted over a massive club sound system and literally entranced by disco's use of repetition.

Debut album follows a trio of superb seven-inch singles

Generic horror film, scored by Nathan Barr with contributions from the man who ups the eerie ante for David Lynch Angelo Badalamenti. Also has spooky-in-context songs from The Turtlenecks and Your Mom. Deliberately nerve-jangling: when I wanted to take it off, I couldn't. Most entertaining are Barr's sleevenotes: "After the score was completed I checked myself into the local psychiatric facility for various tests and shock therapy. They released me after a month with an electronic monitoring bracelet.

Long-serving English roots band unmasked