Country-rock queen smells the sulphur; proffers shelter from the storm.

The dream river keeps on flowing through metaphysical singer-songwriter’s ninth post-Smog album.

Since they drifted into our world a few years ago, EBB have gone from strength to strength and on their hotly anticipated second album, The Mirror , the Scotland-based collective have flexed their muscles even further.

The prog giants’ much maligned and misunderstood 1973 concept album reappears in deluxe expanded and enhanced form. Mark Blake braves a deep dive.

Joy and heartbreak, rendered in analogue, from towering New England talent.

The life and legacy of the great Marianne Faithfull gets the bells-and-whistles treatment. But was it all necessary? Asks Andrew Male.