Back catalogue: All genres

Review: Some of the biggest and brightest stars of alternative pop music repulsed together here on this comprehensive and bumper collection from UMC. It is a storytelling selection that takes in a wide array of contemporary heavyweights from across the world. There everything from emo-pop to indie dance, alt-rock to all-out pop via soft rock, indie and more from names like Lorde, Lana Del Rey, and Florence & The Machine sat alongside the likes of R.E.M., Panic! At The Disco, U2 and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Review: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker and - a little later - Nico broke the mould with their efforts as The Velvet Underground. The Andy Warhol-managed and produced cult rock icons helped lay the foundations for New Wave and punk about a decade before either sound really started to make inroads in any circles, let alone commercial ones. And, listening back to any of their records now, the music itself isn't just a significant bookmark theoretically: it all still sounds incredible today.

Todd Haynes' highly recommendable documentary charts at least some of that story in a commendable way, more so when you consider it arrived around 50 years after the original lineup disbanded. Using interviews with surviving members Cale and Tucker, alongside archive footage, music and other material, it paints a vivid portrait of an equally vivid band. With tracks by them in question, Bo Diddley, The Primitives and The Diablos, this OST helps colour that picture, and era, properly.