David

Eclectic debut from talented Irish auteur

First album of original material for eight years

Return of the '70s TV supercops

Self-styled English chansonnier tears through 21 of David Bowie's finest

Watching the fabbest of all fours in their first US press conference, puffing away on cigs and deflecting inane enquiries, you feel proud to be a Brit. "Sing something for us!" "No, we need money first." Could Justin Timberlake—or Julian Casablancas, for that matter—be half as sarcastic? Imagine waking from a 40-year coma and coming afresh to these extraordinary scenes: four scouse charmers off the plane with their matching suits and Pan Am shoulder bags.

Inflammatory debut from much-vaunted Detroit quintet

The best of Oldham's early work, revisited Nashville-style

New wave god turned worldbeat evangelist gets opera bug

Deadpan Canadian metallers mockumentary

Solo marvels from the Slint, Tortoise and Zwan maestro