A rarities and live double album may not be the wisest career move for Madame Charlotte Gainsbourg, but Stage Whispers turns out to be a surprisingly effective stopgap.

Chronology, the band’s first “career-spanning” live DVD, attempts to mix up TV performances, live footage and the different formations of the band, but can’t help but falling way, way short of any of its predecessors.

Having put out at least an album every year in the last half-decade, not to mention touring relentlessly and writing and illustrating countless issues of his own comic book, A Turn in the Dream-Songs might mark the moment where Jeffrey Lewis’s prolificness has finally caught up with him.

There’s no doubting that Butcher Boy’s third is a record of quiet majesty and, in setting their sights high, the band has proudly staked a claim at grander things. Alex Wisgard reviews.

Six years on from a bleak second album, Baxter Dury is back – on a major label, no less – with Happy Soup, an album on which a little bit of sunshine infiltrates his unique brand of Cockney miserablism.

A quarter of a century on from being granted their License to Ill, the Beastie Boys have pretty much earned the right to do whatever the hell they want; and that seems to be giving the world a tantalising glimpse at how hip hop could grow old gracefully.

Mick Harvey’s first entirely self-penned effort, sees the former Bad Seed tackle death from all angles – no small feat, but does he rise to the challenge? Alex Wisgard investigates.

From its title on down, new LP C’mon certainly seems to suggest a more welcoming, inclusive experience. However, this being a Low record, there’s still some glass left hidden in the grass.