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Spandau Ballet – True

North London fops' third album, remastered for 20th anniversary

Soft Machine – Backwards

Six previously unreleased demos from era of Volume Two (1969) and Third (1970)

Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy: The Best Of

Son of an Arkansas share-cropper made good

In This World

Afghans' odyssey puts the asylum-seeker problem into human context

Trees Lounge

Steve Buscemi's 1996 writing/directing debut, by turns subtly hilarious and desperately sad, is a scruffy, rambling tour of barfly life, wherein his shiftless mechanic becomes an ice cream salesman and romances a much-too-young-for-him Chloe Sevigny. The tagline—"One man's search for... who knows what"—perfectly captures its loaded small-town shrug. Bruisingly good.

The Way Of The Gun

Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie makes his directorial debut with this hip crime caper, with Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as two petty criminals who kidnap Juliette Lewis, a pregnant surrogate mother, unaware that the baby she's carrying belongs to mob boss Scott Wilson. Needless to say, the bullets barely stop flying in this slick, violent thriller.

Bent – The Everlasting Blink

Now wealthy enough to not fall foul of record company lawyers (unpaid for Nana Mouskouri samples resulted in tracks being pulled from their 2000 debut Programmed To Love), The Everlasting Blink features a series of inspired if somewhat bizarre guest stars.

The Minus 5 – Down With Wilco

Tweedy & co prove handy recruits to the R.E.M. spin-off

Alan Moore And Tim Perkins – Snakes And Ladders

Magickal creation theory in latest music-backed spoken words from comics king

Gary Numan – Hybrid

Double album of new songs plus remixes of old stuff from Sugababes' sugar daddy
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