Ravishing pop debut from Malmo four-piece

Double album retrospective from Kidderminster's favourite blues band

Career anthology that runs out of steam halfway through

The Crowded House siblings back together for the first time in nine years

The '80s albums which made them the most successful duo in US chart history

Treasures unearthed from '80s Beeb archives

Blameless boogie from two distinct golden eras

Given the unfolding and increasingly tragic saga of The Libertines, it's a miracle this record even exists, let alone has any artistic worth. For, in the two years since their extraordinary debut album (2002's Up The Bracket), the story of this erratic but enthralling group has taken in serious drug addiction, a prison sentence and—during the making of this record alone—three failed attempts to get frontman Pete Doherty through rehab. Indeed, on the eve of release, Doherty has temporarily been removed from the Libertines line-up. The second Libertines album is all about this.

Demented third from Grammy-nominated Liverpudlian misfits

Ian McLagan-compiled four-CD box from ultimate '70s boogie'n'ballads lad-band. Dedicated to Ronnie Lane