Album

Faust – Patchwork 1971-2002

Mosaic of hitherto unreleased Faust sounds, spanning their 31-year career

Baz – Psychedelic Love

Brought up on the same south London estate as the rampaging So Solid Crew, you might have expected Baz to have become a soul diva or a rap artist, like her sister Monie Love. Instead, under the direction of uber-producer Guy Sigsworth, she's chosen an unashamedly pop path. It would be unfair to call her a black Dido, even if several of the melodies would not have sounded out of place on No Angel. But a female version of Seal wouldn't be far wide of the mark.

The International Noise Conspiracy – Bigger Cages, Longer Chains Ep

Garage rock with an arty twist

Deleyaman – 00

Multi-ethnic mixture of religious, film and dance music by post-punks

Ja Rule – The Last Temptation

Pumped and vacuous fourth album from rap's No 1 pin-up

The Sunshine Company – The Blades Of Grass

The Blades Of Grass ARE NOT FOR SMOKING REV-OLA Rating Star West Coast ex-folksters The Sunshine Company just missed stardom when their version of newcomer Jimmy Webb's "Up, Up And Away" was beaten into the charts by the Fifth Dimension's in 1967.

Uneasy Listening

Remastered 24-CD box set of live performances by establishment-baiting avant-noise terrorists

DPZ – Turn Off The Radio

Impressive revolutionary rap from Florida

Yann Tiersen – L’absente

He helped Audrey Tautou steal your heart in Amélie, and Tiersen, like that film, evokes the passing of French iconographies (Pernod, madeleines, poujadisme) and the culture's quiet assimilation of change, with or without accordions. The slyly sentimental, Nyman-leaning postmodernism of "A Quai" and "Bagatelle" absorbs genres from Rai to post-rock but remains uniquely French. Zazou and Eno, watch your arses.

Dj Me Dj You – Can You See The Music?

Third album of kitsch psychedelic pop comes with DVD
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