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Yes—Yes Years

Yes Years chronicles the band's career from the late '60s through to their '90s reunion via two hours of archive footage and interviews. Greatest Video Hits is more focused and concentrates on the late '70s and '80s when Trevor Horn and Buggles bizarrely joined the line-up. It's easy to scorn Yes' pretension, but Yes Years reminds us that the early material at least boasted some great tunes.

Medium 21 – Killings From The Dial

Young English heirs to The Flaming Lips

Use Your Delusion

Twenty-first album from America's startlingly original lord of lo-fi

The Hidden Cameras – The Smell Of Our Own

Self-styled "gay church folk music" from Toronto

Smallville – Eastwest

The fastest-growing TV show in the US, wherein tales of a young Superman are accompanied by a radio-soft blend of American rock, from Remy Zero's theme to Ryan Adams' "Nuclear". Von Ray's "Inside Out" is the spit of Nickelback, and the new single. Best thing here by a mile is The Flaming Lips' "Fight Test", the opening track of what's been described in these pages as the greatest album since Best Of Jesus Christ Volume One. It's lovely, but owes an extraordinary debt to the Cat Stevens song "Father To Son".

Mark Bacino – The Million Dollar Milkshake

Power pop with guts

Return Of The Grievous Angel

The mighty Lemonhead gets seven-year-itch and returns a much-changed man

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – The Best Of…

Cherry-picked selection from original Mac man who had the blues word perfect

Toppermost Of The Coppermost

Reissue of blonde wonders' five studio albums. In other words, Sting when he was good

Personal Velocity

Three vignettes from the Miller dynasty's diamond
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