Album

The Dame's cracked glam classic lavishly repackaged

Disappointing retro-rock from Alan McGee's stable

Distorted Hammond freak-outs from band for whom term "acid jazz" was coined

Third album from the artist formerly known as Angelou

Brilliant, ghostly alt.folk from New York

De La Soul producer enlists all-star cast to make third solo album

Former Smiths frontman picks the songs that saved his life

Live in LA with the occult metal gods at the peak of their mid-'70s powers

Unreleased tracks collated for Parisian house label

After the largely unheralded triumph of 2001's Tremendous Efforts, Toronto brothers Dallas and Travis Good-along with Sean Dean and sometime Pernice Brother, Mike Belitsky-serve up their finest yet. With Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor replacing old producer Steve Albini, their trademark mix of Sergio Leone twitch, surf, cowpunk and desert-rock is cushioned with Lee Hazlewood-like ballads ("Oak Ridges", "The Story's Often Told"), fat horns ("Mile Over Mecca") and spooky duets (Dallas and mother Margaret's "A Steep Climb"), without compromising intensity.