BASEMENT JAXX: Bingo Bango (XL) -- The much-vaunted dance act who made it big last summer are kicking off the holiday season with another trumpet-rich, percussion-filled piece of Latin-feeling dance music. This has Ibiza written all over it. (7/10) PB

MADE IN LONDON: Dirty Water (RCA) -- Apparently dirty water is always on this girl trio's collective mind. Unfortunately, this moody soft-rock pop pap doesn't make it clear why. (3/10) PB

THE DRUM: Reasons EP (Mantra) -- A wonderfully distinctive mish-mash of strangled guitar, wah-wah sounds, angry vocals makes this four-track CD an edgy avant-garde offering. (5/10) PB ALBUMS PINK FLOYD: Is There Anybody Out There? (EMI) -- More than 20 years after Pink Floyd set themselves a new benchmark with The Wall, they have released a live version. The tracks run in a similar order to the original and are the cream of the band's performances circa 1980. While the live deliveries are far superior to recent performances, the album doesn't quite capture the dark innuendo of the studio version. The crystalline beauty of the original album is in the subtle lyrical twists and painstaking delivery. Roger Waters and company try to match the studio version note for note and, even though these performances are excellent, that approach was never likely to improve it. That could only have been achieved through a radical re-working. (7/10) PB

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Now That's What I Call Music! 45 (Virgin/EMI) -- These "Now" pop compilations continue to roll off the production line and -- like most things -- don't improve with age. Trite pop songs dominate the first CD featuring acts such as S Club 7 with You're My Number One, Atomic Kitten with their latest hit See Ya and Steps with Say You'll Be Mine. The second CD is much better with much of its emphasis on dance tracks, including Moby's Natural Blues and ATB with Killer 2000. And it ends on a high with John Lennon's Imagine. (5/10) VS