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Review: The festive season is just around the corner and nothing makes a friend or family gathering more magical that a damn good soundtrack. The people behind the long-running and frankly legendary NOW series have been putting together the best collections of genre music for decades now so you need to look no further than this bumper Christmas-themed collection. It comes across no fewer than six - yes six - sides of vinyl and covers all bases from the age-old classics to some of the newer tunes to have been added to the wintry canon.

Review: .NOW's Yearbook series of quadruple CD sets reaches 1990, a year in which the currents of dance music's future dominance of the pop charts became stronger and more pronounced. Of course, this being a pop-focused collection, the musical story told is far more varied. So while there are suitably baggy, bowl haircut-sporting indie-dance numbers from the likes of Candyflip, Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses, as well as crossover club hits from the likes of The KLF, the Adventures of Stevie V and Dee-Lite, you'll also find synth-pop melancholia from the Pet Shop Boys (including 'Being Boring', arguably Neil Tennant's best song), boy band business from New Kids on the Block, a dash of Kylie Minogue, alt-rock hits from Faith No More and Bon Jovi, and a blast of Elton John.