Promising debut from Bay Area moodsmith Jason Lakis

Enigmatic Norwegian improvisational collective

Thirty-track two-CD collection from the Oz man's post-Sabbath oeuvre

Seriously hot B-movie schlock'n'roll on a flying saucer tip

Three years slaving away in a hot studio for UK garage man

Lo-fi avant-pop from Canadian duo

Third long-player from playful Franco-house pioneer

First official live album from industrial artcore legends

Former boxer 50 Cent already has a bloody history, having been stabbed in his studio in 2000 and shortly afterwards shot nine times while sitting in a parked car. There's no sense of community on this unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs which has already sold nearly a million copies in America. Musically, the standout is the Dr Dre-produced "In Da Club," which, with its grim, joyless concentration on pleasure echoed by the death knell of its orchestral sample, could be the converse of Nelly's anthemic "Hot In Herre". His macho

Noisy rock from south London foursome named after Hugh Grant's BJ buddy