Eschewing their usual avant-garde provocations, Laibach are back with their most pop-facing record yet – a gloriously hook-laden set packed with undeniable bangers. Didn’t see that one coming…

Best known as one half of The Knife, Olof Dreijer’s inaugural solo work is a rush of vivid yet unconventional dance music – joyful, exuberant and gloriously unbound by customary clubland expectations

Jim Noir is dead. For 20 years, the enigmatic alter ego of Alan Peter Roberts has been the purveyor of perfectly wonky retro-pop. Fear not, though – the man beneath the bowler hat is about to relaunch himself as electronic maestro The Dook

Eleven years on since their last outing, “unapologetic psychonauts” Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy resume transmission as System 7 – and reflect on their storied past with Gong, Simple Minds and The Orb

All ghostly ambience, noir-ish drone and propulsive electronics, J Zunz conjures UP slow-burn soundscapes that shimmer with a creeping, otherworldly unease