Reviews

Relentless Brazilian street-gang drama spanning three decades

Perfect '70s pop pastiche from Nashville-based singer-songwriter

First album in four years from many-aliased Michael Paradinas

Kraftwerk's first 'proper' album since 1986, plus ex-member's solo outing

Hypnotic debut from Mancunian duo

Not the first (and probably not the last) tribute to the Man In Black

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin," Elvis Costello swooned in the opening line to his lusciously hummable 1979 hit "Accidents Will Happen". Not strictly true. Elvis Costello has always known precisely where to begin. Knowing when to stop, that's been another kettle of worms. His latest batch of reissues being a case in point. Each has been fattened up for market with a mind-bending welter of bonus tracks, so that Get Happy!!, a 20-track tour de force in the first place, now weighs in at 50 tracks (with Trust at 31 and Punch The Clock at 39, see right).

Pete Stampfel and Steve Weber's heretic folk-loons going ape in the country

Hollywood remake borrows names and Minis but that's all

The promising 1996 debut by Greg Mottola, The Daytrippers is the epitome of early-'90s Sundance syndrome, where fulsome character and sharp dialogue take precedence over narrative logic. Thus, on the whim of daughter Eliza (Hope Davis), the entire Malone family (including indie queen Parker Posey) take an entertaining but essentially unjustifiable day trip to Manhattan.