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Dwight Yoakam – The Very Best Of…

Roundup of Kentucky country boy's 1986-2003 years

David Dondero – The Transient

US travelling folkie's second album and inaugural UK release

The Fucking Am – Gold

Metal-fixated collaboration between The Fucking Champs and Trans Am

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Although panned on its 1967 release, Roman Polanski's third English-language movie, a horror comedy, is a delightful oddity. There's a dream-like, gothic quality to it as Prof Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and assistant Alfred (Polanski) root out a nest of the undead in wintry Transylvania. The climactic Vampire's Ball is strikingly mounted, and it's easy to see how Polanski fell for leading lady Sharon Tate.

Amarcord

The title translates as "I remember" in dialect, but Fellini's visionary 1973 work (an Oscar winner) wasn't the rosy nostalgia about childhood he'd originally planned. His unique, untethered imagination bleeds into every frame of these '30s-set seaside snapshots, with—of course—sex and religion figuring prominently. Warring parents, twisted priests, Fascists, fantasy, farce and melancholy. As they say, very Fellini.

Various Artists – Lost Blues Tapes: More American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65

Archive anthology of blues greats recorded on historic European visits

Swede Dreams

Ravishing pop debut from Malmo four-piece

Glenn Tilbrook – Transatlantic Ping Pong

Second solo album from former Squeeze man

The Damned

Luchino Visconti's kitsch allegorical melodrama is set in Germany in 1933 and describes the corruption of the wealthy Von Essenbeck family in the face of the Nazi menace. And so, within a few short scenes, they go from fireside home recitals to transvestitism, rape, murder, same-sex orgies, massacres and motherfucking (literally). Made in 1969, it's clearly very political. But that's no excuse.

Omara Portuondo – Flor De Amor

The divine diva of Cuban song offers up a mambo-flavoured masterpiece
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