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The Halcyon Band – Sirocco

Northern rock alliance have Love on their minds

Tayo – Soul Of Man And Phantom Beats

Budget-priced samplers of clubland's hot new microscene

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Janis Joplin – The Essential Janis Joplin

Handy two-CD career retrospective of ill-starred singer who happened in Monterey

The Pretty Things

Not especially distinguished albums reissued

Heart – The Essential Heart

Double whammy from Seattle's multi-faceted finest

Screwed Up

Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel filmed by former Tarantino collaborator

Northern Plights

Compelling Alaskan chiller from Memento director deserves reappraisal

Knockaround Guys

Producer Lawrence Bender wears his Tarantino badge with pride. Which is fine when producing QT movies but problematic in everything else (see Killing Zoe, From Dusk Till Dawn 3). Knockaround Guys, in classic Tarantino fashion, has edgy twenty somethings (Barry Pepper and Vin Diesel), a bag of loot, leather jackets, guns, the mob and, natch, a high-intensity Mexican stand-off finale. Derivative.

Path To War

Made for HBO, John Frankenheimer's final film shows how the US stumbled into the Vietnam war. Alternating choppy chaos with slow control, it considers the view from the White House during Lyndon B Johnson's troubled administration. An ambitious three hours in length, with Michael Gambon's LBJ backed by an incredible cast including Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin and Philip Baker Hall.
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