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Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend

Dark, ambitious second album from fast-rising Derby producer

Timely reassessment of Portland, Oregon quartet's pre-Post To Wire output

Saucer-eyed Santa Cruz psych-noise

UK pedal-steel veteran gorges on electro-exotica

All-star cast fails to save plodding kidnap 'drama'

France's answer to Mean Streets, Trainspotting and Do The Right Thing all rolled into one...

Another tasteful Soul Jazz series rolls on

Long Island punk-funk revivalists'third LP

The late Tom Dowd's influence on music is legendary. As an engineer, he invented the eight-track recorder. As Atlantic Records' in-house producer, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman before helping Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, The Allman Brothers and Ray Charles. His life is traced here through interviews with Dowd himself, Charles, Franklin, Ahmet Ertegun and Eric Clapton, and through fine archive footage and recordings, Inspiring.