Ange

Definitive 52-track compilation spanning 1958-1972

Excellent, if creepy, lo-fi folk

Groundbreaking proto-rap at white heat

The Experience's English farewell at the Albert Hall, and Hendrix's at the Isle of Wight, plus an unreleased 1970 concert

First two volumes of Tricatel's Imaginary Museum series pay homage to under-acknowledged arrangers

Stunning new album from Britain's best-kept secret

Fine post-September 11 release by Anglo-Dutch psychedelicists

UK release for US emo-rockers 2001 debut

Black metal from Norway

It's over a decade since former actor Will Oldham took his first faltering steps in a forgotten backwater of American music. When Oldham began recording with his brother Paul in 1992 he was recovering from a nervous breakdown, staking out an area that provided a refuge for his skewed, haunted but unusually perceptive sensibility.