Billy

Formulaic sure-fire hit couples cricket and racism

In tandem with her recent, more rock-oriented collaborative albums (corralling everyone from Damon Albarn and Jarvis Cocker to Billy Corgan), Faithfull has pursued her other career as a torch singer, the regal ruin of her pristine '60s folk voice now the perfect expression of seen-it-all wisdom/ennui. In the company of pianist Paul Trueblood and at the end of a world tour (recorded at the International Jazz Festival in '97), she's bawdy, wry and always wrenchingly expressive: in short, quite the best exponent of this sort of thing.

Powerful first UK album release from Moog-driven Pittsburgh trio

Disappointing documentary about the making of Zevon's final album

The best of Oldham's early work, revisited Nashville-style

Sardonic slam-bam action romp with brains

That's as in Robert, the devil, and a hellhound, too...

Bleakly beautiful drone-grooves from singer-songwriter tipped for greatness

First in series of reissued twofers from Nashville country giant

Four discs of Top Texan twang in a redneck tin shack box