The Vanity Set – Little Stabs Of Happiness

Second from Nick Cave drummer's side project

Tes – X2

Brilliant minimalist NYC hip hop

Roxy Music – Live

The rapturous return of Commander Ferry and the finest space age rock band in the universe

Easy Star All-Stars – Dub Side Of The Moon

The Floyd's classic gets dub-wise makeover

Clowntime Is Over

The poet laureate of hooliganism returns

Sandy Dillon – Nobody’s Sweetheart

Third album from ex-Broadway actress

The Bluegrass Angel

Californian country-folk belle lets the sunshine through on excellent fourth album

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

OMD were always the most reasonable of electropoppers, and much of their eponymous 1980 debut album resembles a sixth-form music project with songs ranging from the endearingly daft ("Red Frame/White Light") to the accidentally profound ("Messages"). Organisation, released six months later, is what they turned into after they had listened to Joy Division; few hit singles have been as darkly ironic as "Enola Gay".

Them – Now—And “Them”

First time on CD for post-Morrison freakout album recorded in California

Morcheeba – Parts Of The Process

Compilation of London trip hoppers' four albums to date, plus two new cuts
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