If the new DualDisc format, with a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other side of the same disc, keeps pitching up music as seminal as this, we should all be very grateful. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the original version of the band that established a long-lived family tree, was, like other blues-based bands of the time (Rolling Stones, Bluesbreakers) heavily based around a guitar-slinger. In this case, Peter Green, a still-legendary blues guitarist, set the standard. Songs like Man of the World, Albatross and Need Your Love So Bad, would be easy standouts on a new White Stripes album. Here they are captured with a wonderful vivid looseness live in the BBC studios. The DVD side offers an eerie surround sound. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is still, 35 years later, talked of in hushed tones, and this album provides all the reasons you need to join that conversation.

ACE rating 9/10

Billy Corgan's place at the front of one of the 90s most important bands, The Smashing Pumpkins, has given him a lot of leeway to explore his own muse, and in recent years his work with the group Zwan and work on albums by New Order have suggested a comfort with the 80s electronica that was part of his youth. TheFutureEmbrace mixes his immediately recognisable, perfect rock voice with a lot of heavy synthesiser in a way almost guaranteed to suggest New Order, Human League, The Cure and Japan brought into the neon glare, and heavier edge, of 2005. Whether you like this or not will depend a lot upon your visceral reaction to 80s heavy eyeliner bands, and German synth-era David Bowie. Fans of The Smashing Pumpkins won't be able to take an obvious leap between the two, but there is a better place for Cure fans than their own recent album.

ACE rating 8/10

Cousteau often threatened a breakthrough, with their Doves-like layers and Scott Walker/ David Sylvian-like vocals. When their main songwriter left after the second album, though, the band regrouped around singer Liam McKahey, who picked up writing duties. The swirl and dynamics are the same as before, which does suggest that Davey Ray Moore was less important to Cousteau than he thought. This album does rely heavily on a couple of standout tracks, which leads one to think that all the songs written ended up on the album. If anyone is missing the Tindersticks, or Chris Rea's lighter rock, Cousteau may well help fill that void - the band certainly deserve at least as much of the limelight as is currently enjoyed by Athlete.

ACE rating 7/10