If you were swept away by the broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera La Boheme, then Gerald Finley's Marcello may have been one reason for the intensity of your pleasure.

Scott Kara reviews new album Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae

Scott Kara reviews new album Ali and Toumani from Ali Farka & Toumani...

Jacqueline Smith reviews new album The Magician's Private Library from Holly Miranda

Christopher Owen, the brains and voice behind San Francisco's Girls sounds sad - about girls.

It's been a decade since British electronic act Goldfrapp - singer, synth player and clothes horse Alison Goldfrapp and producer Will Gregory - released their debut album Felt Mountain.

The debut album Alive of two years ago by this photogenic Chinese singer was a mish-mash of electro-pop, slightly twee vocals, Chinese folk, new age blandness and deadening over-production.

Let's take a trip back in time to when ravers wore gas masks, and if you weren't wearing a mask you were blowing a whistle, while dancing to yabbering happy hardcore and banging beats that send you raving mad.

The Truckers inspire great loyalty, but fans may be tested by this outing which was knocked off quickly and suffers for it.

Jacqueline Smith reviews new album Wave If You're Really There from Wave Machines

Scott Kara reviews new album Nigeria Afrobeat Special...

Scott Kara reviews new album There Is Love In You from Four Tet

Jacqueline Smith reviews new album Devil's Halo from Meshell Ndegeocello

Russell Baillie reviews new album Humour and the Misfortune of Others from Hollie Smith

Given there's hardly been a shortage of Hendrix albums since his death in 1970, the question is: Why had this album gained so much attention?

Lavishly packaged in a cardboard box and adorned with pictures of the fetching harp player, pianist and singer Joanna Newsom's third album is very easy on the eye.

Megasus play slovenly and unhinged music, almost to the point where the songs fall apart.

Scott Kara reviews new album I'm New Here from Gil Scott-Heron...

Jacqueline Smith reviews new album Soldier of Love from Sade...

While Massive Attack's fifth album doesn't have the anthemic tunes of early albums Blue Lines and Protection, making it a return to form for the Bristol band.

Charlotte Gainsbourg's voice is haunting, saucy, and memorable.

Alicia Keys holds back on her latest album.

If the shadow of climate change has hung over previous albums by this pan-Pacific group then it is hard to hear some of this without thinking of last year's tsunami.

The Flight of the Conchords' parodies have spoiled some music for us.