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Battles: AtlasIs it glam rock or prog techno? Actually, both.

Feist: My Moon My ManThe cult Canadian chanteuse previews her brilliant new album.

Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip: Thou Shalt Always Kill But shalt thou also buy this hot track, then decide it’s a novelty hit?

Loney, Dear: I Am John Sweden’s latterday Paul Simon returns with a beauty. DC

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PREFAB SPROUT: Steve McQueen (Kitchenware)

It is an overused exhortation, but here, it’s true: this really is an album you can’t afford to be without. Swoon, the Durham quartet’s debut, alerted fans of literate, quicksilver pop, but it took this 1985 follow-up to reveal Paddy McAloon’s genius. Buttressed by a phenomenal rhythm section and fairy-dusted with Wendy Smith’s breathy harmonies, tracks such as Goodbye Lucille #1, When Love Breaks Down and Bonny raised the hairs on the back of thousands of necks. A bonus disc of an acoustic McAloon revisiting the songs last year includes a flamenco version of Faron Young that is devastating. DC

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Rufus Wainwright Loudon’s boy follows his Judy Garland recreation with six shows to plug his new album, Release the Stars. From May 24, Guildhall, Portsmouth

Get Loaded/Cardiff Calling The Streets headline, Dizzee Rascal’s on both bills; Super Furry Animals guest in Cardiff, Dirty Pretty Things in Clapham. Aug 25, Coopers Field, Cardiff; Aug 26, Clapham Common, SW4

Happy Mondays Tax bill come again? Shaun Ryder returns, from May 22 at Ironworks, Inverness

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