Album

Wry, off-centre singer-songwriter on good form

16 Horsepower frontman's score for a Belgian dance company

Smart-bomb metal and high jinx from Sweden's latest kick-ass export

Second album since the 2000 reunion, and first on Mike Scott's own label

First new album in 12 years from post-punk legends

Glorious fifth album proper from ever-shifting Bostonians reaches down through the years

Twenty-eight-track compilation of Utah saints' greatest hits, with sleevenotes by Alan Osmond

Filtered French house par excellence

Aptly-titled fourth album from woozy New York quartet

Though the herd may not acknowledge it, there's a minority of us who, the minute a billion-dollar special effects epic starts doing dizzying digital fairground tricks, lean to wondering whether we shut the fridge door before coming out. Just as the average male can't see household dust, even when it's pointed out, some of us don't get what the fuss is with this CGI lark. So they made someone fly, by cheating, by touching up the evidence. Whoop-ti-doo.