Album

Wheels On Fire

Confederate quintet follow last year's Decoration Day with strapping sixth LP

Sam Phillips – A Boot And A Shoe

Underrated US singer-songwriter employs appealing simplicity

Big & Rich

The new hick hop movement starts here

R.L. Burnside – A Bothered Mind

Mississippi bluesman remixed for the hip hop generation

Page & Plant

The duo's 1994 take on Unplugged, which involved recording new material in Morocco and rearranging old Zep songs with Middle Eastern flavours and musicians, was a brave but preposterous conceit. Filmed in a Welsh valley, in a slate quarry and cross-legged with locals in Marrakesh, they're only really credible and incredible in their natural environment—a stage.

Mansun – Kleptomania

Misunderstood visionaries release 'unfinished'fourth album

Blazing Apostles

The best of Bill Nelson's undervalued art rockers, coinciding with reissues of five original Be-Bop albums

Various Artists – The Trip: Created By St Etienne

Epic two-CD 'vinyl junkie' retro-mix from Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs

The 5,6,7,8’s – Teenage Mojo Workout

More "Woo-Hoo"s from Tarantino's rock'n'rolling geishas

Terry Callier – Lookin’ Out

Business as usual for Chicago's impressionistic chill-out king
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