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(ALSO RELEASED THIS MONTH)

Prog-rock magic from the original 'ethereal' enigmas

How New York's hippie hoppers ushered in the philosophical D.A.I.S.Y. Age. And then pronounced themselves Dead

Second album from French four-piece sets this year's pop gold standard

Ice-cold thriller with a downhome feel from the Coen brothers

Two CD'n'DVD best-of for the band Noel Gallagher once roadied for

Kinky voyeurism and body horror rule

Documentary about the lives of gay and lesbian orthodox and Hasidic Jews

The James M Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (femme fatale seduces drifter into murdering her husband) has often been revisited: this 1942 Luchino Visconti version, a Scorsese favourite, was considered immoral and subversive on release, yet spawned the Italian neo-realist school. Noir to the core, it's long and fatalistic.

Long overdue retrospective of cult Aussie combo led by Tim Rogers