Album

High Llamas' guitarist's best solo album to date

Follow-up to James Lavelle's 1999 trip hop folly Psyence Fiction, again with starry guests

Follow-up to 2001's excellent Just Backward Of Square

Savvy electro-rap trio from Brooklyn make their debut

Five CDs,little remorse,strictly for the committed

Pop perfectionists follow up 1999's comeback album, Last Exit

Follow-up to 2000's much-lauded Maroon from Jimmy's offspring

Engagingly oddball debut from Icelandic electrobod

Album number nine from Dean and Gene Ween, who know no stylistic bounds

Set fire to anything. Set fire to the air," urged John Cale at the beginning of Music For A New Society. That 1982 masterpiece was the evisceration of a man whose fractured psyche was mirrored perfectly by songs arranged in jagged, improvisatory style; a knife held at the throat of sweetness. Now he reappears with his first album of songs for seven years, and his finest album in any genre for over two decades.