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DJ Muggs – Dust

Debut solo album from erstwhile Cypress Hill producer

Martina Sorbara – The Cure For Bad Deeds

Tales of sleazy sex from young Canadian singer-songwriter

Serge Gainsbourg – Initials SG—The Ultimate Best Of

Sleazy balladeer's finest, with liner tributes from Beck

Various Artists – When The Sun Goes Down Vols 1-4

An exploration of rock'n'roll's roots, spanning 1926 to 1955

Lo Fidelity Allstars – Abstract Funk Theory

Tenth in the series exploring influences on modern dance music

Evelyn

Inferior rival to Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters

Rock’n’Roll Suicide

Watch Mr Bowie's greatest creation take his curtain call

Kurt & Courtney

Nick Broomfield's documentaries are as much farcical as investigative, with the director affecting the role of bumbling, plummy-voiced faux-naif, Kurt & Courtney (1998) was no exception. He looks hilariously out of place trailing around grungey Seattle, politely interrogating a series of eccentrics, conspiracy theorists and whacked-out dopers. He examines the possibility that Courtney murdered her husband, but witnesses prove so unreliable he drops the charge.

Sci-Fi – Fantasy Roundup

Psychiatric patient Prot (Kevin Spacey) seems remarkably sane, except for his assertion that he's really an alien visitor from a distant planet named K-Pax. It's Starman meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (in a nicely ironic piece of casting, Jeff Bridges plays the psychiatrist determined to discover Prot's real identity), and works nicely even if it does err on the side of sentimentality.

Susumu Yokota – Overhead

Missing link between Yokota's soulful ambient and upbeat house projects
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