Second album from Japanese Mogwai

Marvin'n'Jim's classic of subtlety and restraint, digitally remastered with extra tracks and a bonus hits DVD

Before the epidemic, primitive '80s garage dementia from UK's suburbs

Round-up of Felix Da Housecat's prodigious '90s electro-disco productions

Following the attention heaped upon 2002's lovely I'm Coming Home, Norway's most famous ex-postman Thomas Hansen began to wilt, preferring to "hide behind the beer". Straightened out and under the wing of producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop), Hey Harmony is the product of a frantic's week recording in Nashville, spotlighting the 26-year-old's Anglophilia and US country-folk leanings. Sort of Neil Young and Donovan tripping at The Wicker Man's solstice fest.

Since surfacing from the Detroit underground in 1993, Matthew Smith's outfit have trodden an ever tangential path with infuriating results. Touching all bases from garage rock through prog, psychedelia and beyond requires a deft touch that's often eluded them but, though this record still finds the ground shaking beneath their feet, it's probably their most assured to date.

Pioneering German techno-dubsters relax rigorous approach to electronica

Titanic ambient metal, featuring a declamatory Julian Cope

Skunk Anansie vocalist goes it alone

Two CD'n'DVD best-of for the band Noel Gallagher once roadied for