Album

Will Oldham and David Pajo on soundtrack duty

Companion piece to last year's live-in-the-UK comp. Includes San Francisco's 1966 add-on "Avalon Blues"

First four albums from Wayne Coyne's favourite progressive act, expanded and remastered

Exiled Scots maverick follows up 2001's Folktronic, now with added glitches

A soothing stroll down Germany's less travelled electro boulevards

Bret Easton Ellis' second novel was very much of the '80s, but one of the many clever things Roger Avary's done with his pulsing movie adaptation is to catch the feel of that decade's music without slavishly nuzzling obvious nostalgia trends. The underlying score, by indie-flick stalwarts tomandandy (sic), is both inventive and unsettling. Around it are layered songs of a chic, shiny kind of darkness, borrowed from various eras: tone and temperature are more important here than timeliness.

Potent jazz piano trio debut

Rapper-turned-actress hams her way through third album

Their extraordinary evolution as heard through John Peel's Top Gear

Utopian popsters' sublime rarities are a head and long neck above the opposition