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Him's follow up to the widely praised Venus Doom, entitled Digital Versatile Doom Live at The Orpheum Theatre, is an album with a lot to live up to.

Fortunately Him have really played to their strengths in creating a live album which conveys the passion and darkness in their songs within an audience friendly atmosphere.

The crowd favourites such as Passion's Killing Floor and Dead Lover's Lane all translate well live, and even grow to fill the venue, something that really comes to life on the DVD.

This CD collection shows the band for what they truly are: lively entertainers and poets, and existing fans should not delay in buying it.

Caleb Blue.

Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch.

Thirty-five years in the making, Mudcrutch were the original vehicle for Tom Petty, Benmount Tench and Mike Campbell, releasing the single Depot Street in 1975, before they went on to a fair level of success as two thirds of The Heartbreakers.

This eponymous debut is pretty standard rock in the same family as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. At times the Neil Young & Crazy Horse comparison is all too obvious.

The Byrds' Lover of the Bayou receives a respectable covering on an album that isn't quite Country and Western and not quite Folk Music but an amalgamation of the two that seems to have been given the name Bluegrass.

Graham Scaife.

Flight of the Conchords -- Flight of the Conchords.

Amazing. An album with as much comedic value as it has truth and musicality, the Flight of the Conchords is a startlingly clever debut taken from the hit HBO television series.

The lyrics and parodies of every single song are off the wall, making fun of society, hip-hop, music and probably everything else, all in original and inoffensive ways.

"Foux du Fafa" is a riot of a song whilst "Mutha'uckas" really speaks for itself, and "Au Revoir is pleasing. The highlight is "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" which cleverly reminds of what Hip Hop used to be about: a message, rather than a sexual conquest.

Caleb Blue

2:20am Sunday 15th June 2008

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