Thrilling mash-up of hip hop, dancehall and jungle from London rapper

First album in 11 years from Belgian "electronic body music" pioneers

Utopian popsters' sublime rarities are a head and long neck above the opposition

La Ciccone does it again with the help of French sonic eccentric

Fine funky follow-up to 2001's Felt Mountain

Classic youth cult soundtracks to ITV's Sounds Of Underground London series

First Jesse Malin's solo debut, now Concussion—if anything, this is an even finer record than The Fine Art Of Self Destruction. Steve Earle described Ryan as "one of the best songwriters I've seen come to Nashville", and he's no bullshitter.

Third long-player from playful Franco-house pioneer

Philip Glass at his most minimal, repetitive, and inexplicably, magically, affecting. Apparently, Michael Nyman wrote a score for this, too, and was sore when Glass won that particular clash of the titans. Which, you have to concede, has a touch more aesthetic loftiness about it than "Ugly Noel tells someone to fuck off". It's lovely, though if we're candid, not as lovely as we were hoping. Many reviews of the film decried the music as over-insistent, which is akin to describing George Bush as a genius.

Detroit duo follow up their Resuscitation singles collection