The Australian high priestess of goth's first best-of collection spans a career that began in 1981 and features her work with Brendan Perry over nine albums as Dead Can Dance, Gerrard's solo career as well as her movie soundtrack work, which gained popular recognition in Michael Mann's Heat and Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Most Dead Can Dance fans are completists so they will be disappointed to find no new tracks, but for anyone looking to see what all the fuss is about there are 15 songs of spooky brilliance here.

Download: 'The Promised Womb' 'Now We Are Free' 'The Wheat' Neil Dunphy

Hauschka Room To Expand Fat Cat Records (43m 22s) . . .

You might be a bit sceptical of a Dusseldorf-based experimental piano-electronica artist named Volker Bertelmann but when you understand what he's actually doing to make these odd noises (downbeat clunky piano melodies with weird twangs) it becomes quite engaging. Bertelmann wraps guitar strings around the piano strings, puts gaffer tape or even pieces of wood on them and then blends mild horn sections and dub beats into the mix. It's noodly all right, aiming at listeners of Reich, Glass or Nyman.

Download: 'Chicago Morning' 'Paddington' 'Fjorde' ND

Bill Coleman I'll Tear My Own Walls Down Independent (46m 10s) . . .

Coleman's tender voice and compositions are the perfect soundtrack for some couch-bound February hibernation. Sadly hopeful, there's more than a touch of Mark Kozelek and Gold-era Ryan Adams here. The bare 'Pull Of The Pint' is probably the best song on the album; a regretful, sometimes scornful tale that veers into distortion. There's nothing astoundingly original here, but at least Coleman has spent time creating songs that stand alone, and because of this the record flows with a captivating rhythm.

Download: 'The Pull Of The Pint', 'Slow Hurricane' Una Mullally

Mint Royale Pop Is. . .Faith And Hope (60m 06s) . . .

If you're looking for a party album to buy this month, then this is it; the housey 'Sexiest Man In Jamaica' shares space with the first ever George Michael-endorsed Whamsampling bootleg - 'Wham! Bar'.

The remix of 'Singin' In The Rain' is fantastic, as is the completely ethereal reinterpretation of the Stone Roses' 'Elephant Stone'. A Terrorvision 'Tequila' remix adds to the eclecticism, and there's also a bit of big beat thrown in on 'Kenny's Last Dance' for good measure. If you don't have a smile on your face after listening to this album, then something is seriously up.

Download: 'Singin' In The Rain', 'Elephant Stone', 'Show Me' UM