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Slow-burning second album from Toby Burke's equine three-piece

Self-consciously sensitive US wimp-rock

Colourful spoof of everything Doris Day fought for

More of the best various-artist releases

Second album of the year, recorded with just a four-track and a healthy dose of vitriol

An immaculate digital restoration job, including muffle-free audio, silky silver monochrome and original 'pillarbox' framing, adds an unnerving contemporary kick to Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece. Detailing the slavering hunt for bug-eyed child murderer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) through a dark and hostile, shadow-filled Berlin, this is the original, if not the best, serial killer flick.

The four-track debut solo EP becomes 157 minutes of music over two CDs, with a bonus DVD

Lost 'Nam classic from Texan troubadour

Album number nine from Dean and Gene Ween, who know no stylistic bounds

Lukas Moodysson's bleak tale of a Slavic girl's suffering