Reviews

Fifth album from Austin, Texas quintet

Rock'n'soul action from vocalist Shawn Smith and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard

Two from Brighton's FatCat, fast shaping up as one of UK's leading independents

Lisa Gerrard, spiritually intense wailer and ex-Dead Can Dance member is, we'll wager, no close relation to Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool midfielder. But you never know. She's gone all Maori on us here for a New Zealand indie film, and aren't they the fellas who do those scary war-dance routines before playing thug-ball, or rugby, or whatever it's called? Lisa, after working on Gladiator, Ali and others, is now a big Hollywood soundtracks player, which is comically absurd but blissfully reassuring.

First time on CD for post-Morrison freakout album recorded in California

Compilation of mail-order metapop from people who brought us the Langley Schools Music Project

Powerful psychodrama from Norway

Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies head up a nautical salvage crew who discover a derelict ocean liner that's been missing since 1962. On board is a fortune in gold bullion—and several hundred ghosts. Pure formula—occasionally bizarre and gory, but in the main outrageously schlocky, with Margulies in plucky heroine mode—and comfortingly reliable.

Scorsese's awe-inspiring paean to a city born through conflict

Stunning punk-prog produced by Rick Rubin, featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea and John Frusciante. Band "sound manipulator" Jeremy Ward, 27, was found dead on May 25