Reviews

Sixth posthumous release for Songbird star

Magnificent machine symphonies from shadowy electro boffins

Manc trio's pick'n'mix of urban music

"Thirteen big, salty tears," blurbs Black. "Like 13 little black dogs just born... ready to howl at the world"

Reissue of underrated '80s LP with bonus disc of rarities, demos etc

Three-CD volume of rare cheater stomp and big noise from Waimea

Third helping of Robert Rodriguez's cod-western guns-and-girls saga

Charting the life of a disfigured Peruvian child

Based on a John Cheever story, this 1968 movie stars Burt Lancaster as a seemingly prosperous and urbane middle-aged man who decides to swim back to his suburban house via all the pools in the neighbourhood. But his journey turns out to be an exposé of his personal downfall. An enigmatic meditation on the American Dream, marred only by a couple of hazy, slo-mo scenes that radiate '60s naffness.

Rowdy late John Ford comedy starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin as Guns Donovan and Boats Gilhooley, brawling Navy veterans who stay on in the South Pacific after the war against the Japanese ("bad, black days"). Contemporary audiences will probably find it crude, noisy and rambling—but it's ravishingly shot, and beneath the slapstick there's a sharp satire on class, race and friendship.