Wind

Cult Canadian dandy grapples with his dual personality on third LP

Avant-ambient landmark

Unusual but effective struggle-and-survival story

I know what you're thinking. Oh Lord, what's McCartney doing now? What desperate revisionism is he foisting on a Lennon-free world? Now calm down.

Cherished US singer-songwriter back on form

Greenaway has more than once been known to disappear up his own aesthetics, but this collection of his short films plays to his strengths, tolerating little tedium. Disc One includes six films exploring his constant themes, from A Walk Through H (numbers, maps, the afterlife) to Windows (37 people fall through windows to their deaths). Disc Two features the obsessive Vertical Features Remake and The Falls (92 mini-biogs), and is—if you're in the mood—monumental like video art pioneer Bill Viola.

Patchy selection from the man Quentin Tarantino called "a musical journalist, a chronicler of his time"

Coens' gangster-movie homage is a dark, off-kilter twister

Belated UK release for 34-year-old Liverpool-born popsmith

Sixth album from Mr and Mrs Sparks of New Mexico