Back to nature

If, like me, you're feeling flat-out and frazzled following the post-festive return to the coal face, may I recommend brain balm in the form of R Seiliog's Megadoze? I'd hesitate to call Robin Edwards' latest LP "chill-out music" (shudder), but it certainly has a calming effect, even when it edges closer to something that might possibly get played in a club rather than in a darkened living room after hours.

Also reviewed in the December/January issue of Buzz are new releases from Blood Red Shoes (remember them?), Cast (try desperately to forget them), Manic Street Preachers (milking it) and Public Service Broadcasting.