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Miracle Mile – Alaska

Gentle melodic pop and weeping pedal steels from British singer-songwriter

Art Garfunkel – Everything Wants To Be Noticed

Great singer in need of decent songs

Little Feat

Old Feats don't fail to amuse and enthral with these lavish unreleased and live double sets

The Wild Thornberrys Movie – Jive

An animated kiddies' thing which, to my untrained eye, looks scarily like Rugrats, this is set in the African wilderness. And has elephants in it. So you don't need to trouble your inner genius to work out that Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour and Paul Simon will feature. "Father And Daughter" is the latter's first song for a film in 15 years, and he can still turn a lyric and craft a tune like an unlikely deft demi-god. He can even mumble "trust your intuition, it's just like goin'fishin'" and sound wry. It's no "Mrs Robinson" but it's warm as a puma's gums.

Laibach – The John Peel Sessions

Austere Slovenians' BBC recordings between 1986 and 1987

The Last Poets

Groundbreaking proto-rap at white heat

Camper Van Beethoven – Cigarettes And Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years

Limited edition five-CD box from '80s US indie heroes

Live Forever

Spurious but amusing documentary about Britpop

Suede—Introducing The Band

A document of their 1994 Dog Man Star tour, this captures Suede just about surviving the notorious crisis of losing that album's principal architect, Bernard Butler. Still, Brett Anderson bumps and minces with considerable verve and new boy Richard Oakes oozes confidence nevertheless. More interesting are the accompanying tour films, dedicated to Derek Jarman and visibly influenced by said director's Smiths promos. DVD EXTRAS: Lyrics menu, rare NFT video footage, teaser for accompanying Lost in TV DVD.

Chance Encounter

Sellers heads for the White House in perhaps his finest screen performance
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