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Cary On Charming

Three Hollywood favourites starring the silver-tongued man of style

Threnody Ensemble – Timbre Hollow

Elegant chamber music for Mogwai fans

Audioslave

Long-mooted supergroup finally release debut

Tighten Your Pelt

The Jeff Tweedy-Jim O'Rourke love-in continues

Bitter, Bitter Weeks

A kinder, gentler Ryan Adams

Jane Birkin – Arabesque

Gainsbourg's grand amour offers Oriental stylings

Dandies Of The Underground

Comprehensive collection of Philly pop-soul boys, fronted by Todd Rundgren, who looked to Swinging London for inspiration and then blew up

Various Artists – The Wire 20 1982-2002

Triple box set celebrating independent alternative experimental music

City By The Sea

Crime, family, and De Niro; a quiet beauty

In an ideal world, Blondie would have existed only on video. The golden Deborah, adored by the camera, would now live forever as a shimmering punk siren, blessed with a voice of both honey and crystalline clarity. Harry fronts Blondie at their 1983 farewell concert in Toronto uncomfortably, inelegantly, and sings without any of the vitality of the sassy little Kittens whose success has prompted this release.
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