Album

Featherweight US rockers at their commercial peak

Belated release of 1979 live session

Vital live dispatches from the last five months in the life of Ian Curtis

(ALSO RELEASED THIS MONTH)

Startling third album by hardcore bass/drums duo from Rhode Island

Something of a cult, this. In 1972—that year again—the Brits made a dreadful zombie movie wherein frog-worshipping biker boys commit suicide, then return, undead, to burn up motorways and terrorise old ladies like Beryl Reid outside supermarkets. Fog, satanism and skull helmets, on a budget of around nine quid. The soundtrack, however, by Kes man John Cameron, has changed hands for daft money since, and now appears on CD. It mixes wah-wah rock, choral arias and phased backwards drums for no better reason than that Cameron felt like it.

Debut album from Brighton-based art-rock eccentrics

Glitchcore's hip elite remix Oakland's spiky robotniks

NYC rock'n'roll troupe Cat Mother had a semi-illustrious history. Formed by Stephen Stills' mate Roy Michaels (pre-Buffalo Springfield), Roy's boys packed an esoteric punch with their odd mix of old rocker standards and mandolin/violin/banjo workouts. Jimi Hendrix took a shine to them and semi-produced this disc at Electric Ladyland. They came up with a diverting set, but the Hendrix link is obviously the draw for this first-time CD reissue.

Long overdue retrospective of cult Aussie combo led by Tim Rogers