Album

US travelling folkie's second album and inaugural UK release

New studio album and greatest hits package from "The Way It Is" man

Generation-bridging blues-gospel collaboration

San Francisco maverick's sixth compelling album

Californian funk fusioneers' finest

Star-crossed line-up shines on underrated singer's catalogue

Twenty tracks of peerless French pop art

Some may come and some may go, but Fairport go on forever

Zbigniew Preisner (there's one for the Scrabble match) is Poland's film music god, having scored Kieslowski's Three Colours and Dekalog. His work here for the overblown, befuddled Thomas Vinterberg turkey is tastefully shimmery, and strident only when necessary. Perhaps he could lease it out to an infinitely superior movie, which shouldn't be hard to find. Among Vinterberg's hilarious sleevenotes is a ludicrous boast: "It's all in the film... including an excellent song I wrote. It is in Latin, and just as there are seven days, there are seven words in the song.

Genius signs off with his first duets album alongside Elton, Norah Jones et al