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Engagingly oddball debut from Icelandic electrobod

Album number nine from Dean and Gene Ween, who know no stylistic bounds

Set fire to anything. Set fire to the air," urged John Cale at the beginning of Music For A New Society. That 1982 masterpiece was the evisceration of a man whose fractured psyche was mirrored perfectly by songs arranged in jagged, improvisatory style; a knife held at the throat of sweetness. Now he reappears with his first album of songs for seven years, and his finest album in any genre for over two decades.

Greatest hits (again) plus recent acclaimed remixes

Despite recording together for 14 years (much of that as part of The Black Dog), Ed Handley and Andy Turner still explore the syntax of electronica with awe and excitement. Tracks like "Crumax Rins" or the haunting synth fugue "Cedar City" may hint at the tenebrous dissonance of their earlier incarnation, but generally Spokes is passionate and optimistic.

Solo outing from Clannad singer moving into Enya territory

Ex-Orange Juice guitarist comes out of retirement

More heaving dollops of maximum rock'n'soul from Riverside, California

Remastered and elaborately repackaged reissues of nearly everything Sylvian and Co did in the '80s

Long-lost, flighty solo venture by Buffalo Springfield bassist