Album

Glittering twin set from revitalised godfather of gloom

Self-styled Chauncey Gardiner of cute implies a lot but says little

London country duo relocate to US and make masterpiece

Icelander moves into new career phase with experimental vocal fantasies

Recorded last December at the end of the 2003 world tour, it's spooky watching Gary Brooker singing "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" so many years after it scored 1967's summer of love. Yet his voice hasn't altered one iota. A third of the 21 tracks come from their 2003 album, The Well's On Fire. But it's old favourites like "Homburg", "Shine On Brightly" and "A Salty Dog" that command all the attention.

The late thespian's MGM curio from September '67

Another tasteful Soul Jazz series rolls on

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut

"Not everyone can relate/To what you and I appreciate," croons Devendra Banhart on one track of this fourth effort. It may be the truest, least cloying sentiment he's ever uttered, certainly on disc. Recorded at the same sessions as his recent Rejoicing In The Hands debut, it's a similar anthology of songs shot through with naïve, awestruck wonder, delivered in a warbling croon that's equal parts Ed Askew and Robbie Basho, over steadily thrumming finger-style guitar.

Welsh shellsuit devotees marry scatological humour to hip hop