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Bent – The Everlasting Blink

Now wealthy enough to not fall foul of record company lawyers (unpaid for Nana Mouskouri samples resulted in tracks being pulled from their 2000 debut Programmed To Love), The Everlasting Blink features a series of inspired if somewhat bizarre guest stars.

The Minus 5 – Down With Wilco

Tweedy & co prove handy recruits to the R.E.M. spin-off

Alan Moore And Tim Perkins – Snakes And Ladders

Magickal creation theory in latest music-backed spoken words from comics king

Gary Numan – Hybrid

Double album of new songs plus remixes of old stuff from Sugababes' sugar daddy

Nobukazu Takemura – 10th

Playful electronica from Japanese DJ

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Various Artists

Esteemed wacky Welsh group's early years plus Ankst two-CD retrospective

Harry Nilsson – The Point

Fairytale concept album from 1970 that evolved into first feature-length, made-for-TV animated musical

Townes Van Zandt – Absolutely Nothing

Posthumous live and studio collection from legendary Texan troubadour

The Hours

Three female big-hitters go on an Oscar hunt

Dog Days

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.
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