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The New Pornographers – Electric Version

Pop fun from Neko Case's twang-free other band

Matt Elliott – The Mess We Made

Former Third Eye Foundation man finally returns under his own name

Lisa Germano – Lullaby For Liquid Pig

Left-field concept album from arthouse diva

No-Man – Together We’re Stranger

First since 2001's Returning Jesus from durable duo

Duran Duran – The Singles ’81-’85

Plastic pop tarts' revival confirmed by box set

Kool & The Gang – Gangthology

Two-CD, 33-track comp of pioneering street funk with emphasis on early years

Also Reissued This Month

Much-bootlegged material finally given official release

The Truth About Charlie

Pointless vanity remake of Charade

Betrayed

When Fed Debra Winger goes undercover in the rural Midwest to investigate a bunch of white supremacists, she makes the mistake of falling in love with vicious, family-loving klansman Tom Berenger. Director Costa-Gavras has made some coruscating political masterpieces, but this overwrought mess is close to idiocy. It defuses its own explosive subject matter. Worth seeing, though, for Berenger's committedly-crazed scenery-chewing.

Swept Away

Pussywhipped by Madonna into remaking Lina Wertmüller's 1974 film, Guy Ritchie betrays the fact that he can't direct outside the bad-lads genre, while Madge proves, for the umpteenth time, her inability to act. She's a rich socialite falling for a poor Italian on a desert island: watch Nicolas Roeg's Castaway instead.
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