Album

The Pastels always seem to find their wheelbarrow positively overflowing with acclaim, though some of us have struggled for over a decade to remember what they actually sound like. Here they wibble along, inoffensively enough, through a 25-minute accompaniment to the recent Brit road movie directed by David Mackenzie. It climaxes, if that's not too bold a word (it is), with a Jarvis Cocker collaboration, "I Picked A Flower", a parody of a pop hit which demonstrates that Cocker used up all his parody power a while ago.

Double CD featuring Velvet Underground chanteuse's solo comeback material from early '80s

New compilation in surround sound, plus unreleased Johnny Cash duet

Low-key return by former Spencer Davis Group and Traffic star

Third time around for bleeding-heart Californian arena rockers

Contrasting, uplifting reggae revivals from London and Leeds

Underground rap legend MF Doom returns as giant lizard

Country-rock was superseded as a description long ago by new, alt. and insurgent country, not to mention the catch-all 'Americana'. But the old '70s terminology should surely be revived to describe Austin five-piece Reckless Kelly, who sound more like Pure Prairie League than Uncle Tupelo. Led by the brothers Willy and Cody Braun, the band's third album stomps rowdily on tracks like "Let's Just Fall" and "Nobody's Girl".

Three-disc overview of Billy Idol's brigade

Pioneers of rootsy Southern fried rock and funk school