Album

Been-around session voice flies solo

Second studio album from sensuous nu-soul sister

Transvision Vamp pin-up obscures her identity for lamentable solo debut

Twenty-four mainly Yank cover versions of Fannies classics

Even before Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand cited jangling, DiY indie as a touchstone, it had influenced Kurt Cobain (who covered The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips", featured here), the Manics and Saint Etienne. Essentially, indie-pop continued where Postcard records (Orange Juice, Josef K et al) left off a few years earlier (though minus the soul influences).

Groovy '74 Cali classic unearthed again

Ol' Blue Eyes bootlegs go legit

Tremendous return from the reformed AMC

More life after the blessed Ian Dury...

Magical acid-folk from New York bothy