Reviews

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.

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

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

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

Playful electronica from Japanese DJ

Esteemed wacky Welsh group's early years plus Ankst two-CD retrospective

Fairytale concept album from 1970 that evolved into first feature-length, made-for-TV animated musical

Posthumous live and studio collection from legendary Texan troubadour

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

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.