Wind

Three-CD reissue of 1968 masterwork. Includes mono and stereo mixes, bonus singles and B-sides, plus obscurities previously only available on the long-deleted The Great Lost Kinks Album

Bizarre documentary atmospherically recreating strange events that took place in a small Wisconsin town in the 1890s. Economic depression and an epidemic spark off a succession of murders and suicides, and insanity is rife—most memorably in the form of the cocaine-fuelled Mary Sweeney, who travelled the whole state killing windows. Compelling.

From 1968, two post Mike Bloomfield albums by groundbreaking Chicago blues merchants on one CD

Treasure-trove of dirge and lullaby over three CDs and one DVD

New York's prolific eccentric vents anti-Bush spleen

James Brown-inspired fare from Ohio to Oklahoma

Definitive comp of Windy City vocal-group soulsters beloved of Tony Soprano

A concept album of sorts, the second solo release from the Mekons founder and Chicago-expat charts the rise and demise of honky-tonker Lofty Deeds as a metaphor for US history. Like all things Langford, though, it's not heavy-handed or portentous, the music rollicking like a midnight special braced against the hard wind of his uniquely British delivery.

Demos for Fay's eponymous 1970 Decca LP and rarely-heard late-'60s outtakes

Three DVDs which catch the rock'n'roll maverick onstage and backstage