Reviews

Inspired by a Bowie gig, Trilogy sees The Cure perform three of their LPs in full over two nights at Berlin's Tempodrom—the classics Pornography and Disintegration plus the more recent Bloodflowers. With the band, as usual, brilliantly lit and the event shot with 12 separate cameras, this is far superior to normal live fare. The music, too, benefits from perhaps the band's strongest line-up. Pornography, originally performed by a trio, here becomes a maudlin monolith, with the ageless Smith somehow reinfused with a bitterness now 20 years old. Thrilling.

Berlin avant-dub maestro goes hip hop

Philadelphian psych-rockers continue their long, strange trip

Spiritualized renegade teams up with Watchmen creator

Third album but first British release from Australia's answer to The Be Good Tanyas

Low-key sequel to a modern classic

Sixties group and session work from Britain's first truly 'modern' guitarist

First four solo albums by overlooked psychedelicist

Sly, subversive rap romcom

Writer Jean Genet's sole completed film (albeit only 25 minutes long), despite his lifelong fascination with cinema. Once outlawed due to the presence of an erection, this erotic fever-dream of prison-cell sexual tension represents a remarkable distillation of Genet's poetic themes and preoccupations. The transfer of this 1950 classic is pristine.