Nick Drake – A Treasury

Another trip down the well-worn path of the Drake archive

Various Artists – All Good Clean Fun

A three-CD journey through the English underground of 1967-1975

X – The Best: Make The Music Go Bang!

Mighty compilation of LA country-punk pioneers

Creature Comfits

Twenty-one-track greatest hits from Welsh genre-hopping psychonauts

The Notorious Big – Ready To Die

The album that established the late rapper's reputation

Blanche – Borderline, London

Blanche come here haunted by associations— chiefly leader Dan Miller's with fellow Detroiter Jack White. The pair shared several bands before Jack's vault to fame, and moonlighting Blanchers made up half his Loretta Lynn-backing Detroit supergroup The Do-Whaters. Blanche also supported The White Stripes last year, and bunked with them on this UK trip.

Strangers In Paradise

Young Sussex-born singer-songwriter steps up to the next level with best live show to date

Hard Dazed Night

The former Screaming Tree gives a stupefying performance but, despite crowd rumours, has no need of an ambulance

The Return

In remotest Russia, a father suddenly returns to the wife and sons he left 12 years earlier, and takes the two boys into the barren countryside on a fishing trip. Whether you read it as psychological thriller or allegory on human existence, Andrei Zvyagintsev's devastating directorial debut has established itself as a modern classic. This elegant film is charged with mystery, and dread that descends like fog.
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