Reviews

Auspicious, genre-defying debut from London-based polymath and sometime Telefunken/Hefner collaborator

Intensely moving, Simon Raymonde-co-produced follow-up to 2001's Lido

The hip hop underground goes uptown

Awesome trance-rock newcomers

Fifth album from enigmatic New York songstress

Further helpings of articulate and soulful intensity from highly-acclaimed British singer-songwriter on the follow-up to his Mercury Prize-nominated debut from 2001, Here Be Monsters

Long-lost pub rock albums finally resurface

Pierce and co's cosmic masterpieces reissued

Three female big-hitters go on an Oscar hunt

Set in and around a half-built rubble-strewn suburb of nowhere Vienna, pounded by summer sunstroke, and featuring brutal scenes of rape and battery, Dog Days is a bracing blast of arthouse nihilism from Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl. And like a bleak psychotropic Short Cuts, the success of this multi-character piece depends on how the viewer responds to Seidl's remarkable yet savagely pessimistic world view.