Chic

The Addiction plug straight back into the main vein

First full review of 39-track follow-up to Stankonia from fractured hip hop duo

Fifth and possibly best album from left-field chamber ensemble

Re-emergence of jazz-folk classic from Chicago tunesmith

Rough Trade bands celebrate the label's 25th birthday by covering songs from the catalogue

Influential '70s jailbait rockers reassessed

Excellent debut in style of Hartley or Labute

Re-release of NY punk-funk debut, with bonus disc

When '80s Northern boys hooked up with a pair of disco and hip hop gods

The Omen echoes throughout Simon Wincer's camp but sporadically affecting 1980 re-imagining of Rasputin. Here the Mad Monk has been replaced by Robert Powell's mysterious glam-rock psychic healer, who cures the leukaemia-stricken son of venal senator David Hemmings and uses magic to expose the senator's crimes. It's clunky and dated, but Powell's typically messianic performance smoothes over the cracks.