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Killer second from rural New York siblings

It’s only their fourth album in 18 years but Kim and Kelley Deal remain defiantly nonchalant

Sweetly-observed coming-of-age drama; Plus director Q&A and trailer!

A few years ago, I spent a good while being evangelical about something that was excruciatingly, and probably briefly, labelled ‘folktronica’. Before a bunch of rather insipid bands like Tunng seemed to take up that banner in earnest, I wrote a lot about the solo work of Kieran Hebden, who as Four Tet had moved through an electronic reconfiguring of ecstatic, cosmic jazz and was (circa 2001) building new music out of his computer and a bunch of arcane folk records.

The band mix old classics with new songs at Apple store gig

The Raconteurs album is playing for the second time this morning, and I’ve just got round to reading the paperwork which arrived in my inbox with the download just before 9am. “Consolers Of The Lonely”, it notes, is “loud, bombastic and littered with changes of tempo.” Can’t argue with any of that.

Uncut's track-by-track guide to the Hollywood star's debut LP

90s slack hop opus, remastered and extended with remixes, B-sides and two unreleased tracks

Precocious Oxford quintet's daringly different debut

An ill-advised leap towards 80s power pop. Yikes.