Bag

Mixed bag of fodder, including 2Pac outtakes and journeyman rap

Legendary single-a-month scam from indie stalwarts revisited

US indie quintet calm the country and blast the rock

Legendary creator of arguably the finest psychedelic album ever recorded makes a passionate return

First UK releases for currently hot band

Double CD compendium from Mancunian Deee-lite

Frothy Spielberg caper wastes classy cast

Underwhelmed as we are by franchise McBlockbusters, this score's by the really rather talented Howard Shore, who was responsible for the coolly sexy sounds which rippled under David Cronenberg's Crash. His soppy strings for the first Baggins movie won him all manner of awards and made the UK Top 10. This one is distinguished by its remarkable guest vocalists: Iceland's Emiliana Torrini and former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser—from "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to Gollum and Samwise: it makes a kind of sense, no?

Superb, moving road movie with Nicholson on brilliant form

Another dusting-off for the Plastic Ono Band, playing for peace and headlining over Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Yoko climbs out of a bag to shriek along with the atmospheric desperation of "Yer Blues" and "Cold Turkey", and provides the highlight, during "John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)", by throwing Eric Clapton into such confusion he doesn't know what to play.