Jaw-droppingly tight, yet free-flowing and consistently beautiful. Have Norway's Jaga Jazzist already released the record of the year?

Six reissued albums to remind us all that the world still sucks, but that us fish must swim together.

The second album from R.E.M. receives the deluxe re-issue treatment.

The tail end of the decade is upon us, and British goth-rockers The Horrors create an album to remember it by.

The third album from Junior Boys might not scream out for your attention, but it certainly deserves it.

Short, sweet, and immortal, a brief look back at an early Prince highlight.

As the Thermals continue wiggling their way from the stylistic confines of punk, they seem to be closing their mitts all the more firmly around its spiritual core. Now We Can See is a power pop record about vision, death, disease, perspective, and, er, turning into a fish (?) but its great expressive anchor is the elated desperation that gives punk both its wickedness and its promise.

Twenty years after it was deemed a commercial failure, Paul's Boutique, second full-length from the Beastie Boys, has proven to be one of the most important albums to emerge in the last century.  Now being re-mastered and re-issued in a variety of formats, it's up for discussion.  Again.

In the post-grunge nadir of the early nineties Swervedriver's first two albums – 1991's Raise and 1993's Mezcal Head – should have sealed their reputation as one of the finest British bands of the era. For a variety of reasons, they didn't. If ever a band deserved a re-appraisal it's Swervedriver.

Slipped out by Warp during the tail end of 2008, the Brooklyn experi-mentalists have struck gold on their most compulsively engaging album yet.