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Rough Trade bands celebrate the label's 25th birthday by covering songs from the catalogue

Initially dazzling, largely frustrating 11th from moustachioed Swiss electro duo

White city blues on the rocks

Engagingly oddball debut from erstwhile member of Add N To (X)

Mining the same classical chamberpop as contemporaries Procul Harum, Alex Spyropoulos' and Patrick Campbell-Lyons' charges cut... Simon Simopath in 1967, a science-fiction pantomime a-flutter with silken strings and baroque delicacy. Part Greek myth, part L Ron Hubbard. Even better was follow-up All Of Us, though—with the exception of "Rainbow Chaser"—it failed to ignite a public weaned on less fragile acid fare.

Debut from NYC trio featuring ex-Jeff Buckley band guitarist Michael Tighe and drummer Parker Kindred

Warm and gentle pop from John (Wilco) Stirratt and Pat (Ryan Adams) Sansone

Art-rock doesn't, as far as we know, have a glorious reputation in the working men's clubs of South Yorkshire. Relaxed Muscle, however, suggest there's a captive market for electro duos in Doncaster, where the regulars suffer half an hour of performance art before bingo.

Scratch mix supremo and dub producer collaborate to fine debut effect

Typically wilful, valedictory double CD with new material, rarities and a 2002 live show from Dublin