Mountain-harmony brilliance revisited

Overlooked cuts from pop-country gal with the "itty-bitty voice"

The blues continues to pour down in reissues, compilations and box sets. Century Of The Blues is superbly assembled to commemorate the centenary of the day in 1903 when WC Handy encountered a "lean, loose-jointed negro" playing a guitar in the style he was the first to name "the blues". There's no attempt to claim the music as a contemporary art form, for the selection ends mid-century. Even BB King, the only name here who's still working, is represented by a 1950 recording.

Solo debut from the Sugarcubes' other voice

Long-serving English roots band unmasked

Self-consciously awkward electronica from San Francisco

Eclectic Prefuse 73 man turns his hand to Latin ballads

Classy return to form following 2001's disappointing Argyle Heir

Second album from the stentorian UK rapper, the Harry Secombe to Roots Manuva's Spike Milligan

Debut from US-fixated Yorkshiremen