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Dana Glover – Testimony

Over-cooked debut from Robbie Robertson-discovered Southern belle

FortDax – Folly

This full length debut of music box chimes ("Both Mirror And Armour"), sampled Japanese folk songs ("Sakura", "Takeda") and proggy Vangelis-inspired electronics (everything else) has a neo-pastoral charm which, at face value, would align it closely with the output of labels like Memphis Industries and Tummy Touch.

Spearmint – My Missing Days

Intelligent heartbreak pop

The Human League – Remixes

Ill-advised dance overhauls of Sheffield's finest

Luke Haines & The Auteurs – Das Capital

Haines classics re-recorded, plus three new songs

Various Artists – Gospel: The Essential Album

Excellent introduction to gospel music

Acne Rebel

Archly satirical tale of disenchanted teenage slacker

Cinema Paradiso—Collector’s Edition

Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning ode to cinema revolves around a famous film director returning to his native Sicilian village to attend the funeral of a local cinema projectionist who'd befriended him as a young boy and cultivated his love of film. Pure magic.

China Moon

Detective Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) meets the unhappily married-to-money Rachel Monro (Madeleine Stowe) and before you can say Body Heat he's dumping the hubby (Charles Dance) in a lake, and his own career along with it. Harris is dependable as ever but Stowe curiously inanimate, leaving China Moon with a central relationship that's about as steamy as a bowl of cold soup.

Animé Attraction

Animated accompaniment to this year's sure-to-be-blockbuster Matrix sequels
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