Album

Tommy Stinson – Village Gorilla Head

Former Replacement's tired of waiting

Tift Merritt – Tambourine

North Carolina songstress' second LP

N. Lannon – Chemical Friends

San Franciscan weds sombre songcraft to grooves and glitches

Embrace – Out Of Nothing

Long-lost Yorkshiremen's rousing return

Janet Jackson – From Janet To Damita Jo

Stats show that Middle America's "mass moral outrage" at Janet's Superbowl boob-bearing came from a noisy couple of hundred. Her career may survive, then, though no thanks to this year's scrappy LP Damita Jo. This gathers all the videos from the last four, the best of which is "That's The Way Love Goes", where she maximises her feline moves, timid voice, and gorgeous loping grooves. But she's definitely in decline.

Hollywood Rose – The Roots Of Guns N’Roses

Unremarkable dregs from the 1980s metal vaults

The Byrds – The Essential Byrds

Does exactly what it says on the tin

Julie Driscoll – Brian Auger & The Trinity

From Yardbirds' fan-club secretary to "the face of '68"...

They Might Be Giants – The Spine

Quirky duo display backbone on 10th studio album

Brooks – Red Tape

Dark, ambitious second album from fast-rising Derby producer
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