Reviews

Archive trawlers find more unreleased examples of Randy California's muse

Nu-soul, UK style

Dazzling third solo album on border of post-rock and electronica from ex-Fridge magnate Kieran Hebden

No self-disrespecting finger-snapping swinger should be without the music to Clooney's clever directorial debut. Suave as the fella himself, it kicks off with a song written by the movie's hero, Chuck Barris—or at least he claims he wrote it. Of course, he claims a lot of things. His shining pop moment, "Palisades Park" by Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon, is as kitsch as the night is long.

Early-'90s flavour-of-year follows up multi-million-selling solo debut

First four albums by "crazy motherfucker" turned film star remastered and reissued

Career overview of Britain's most famous white female blues singer (1944-1990)

Annual indie works outing annexed by electronica massive

Everybody's kung fu fighting

Much-emulated screwball comedy, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper as the disingenuous rustic type who inherits a $20 million fortune and a new life in New York. There he's pitted against a variety of shysters, cynics and dodgy lawyers who lend the film its edge as well as material for the underlying homily against urban sophistication. Jean Arthur adds charm as the hard-bitten tabloid hack who falls for Cooper.