Holly Herndon ‘Platform’ (4AD)
The California-based boffin returns triumphant with an ingenious second album of laptop exploits
Grasscut ‘Everyone Was A Bird’ (Lo Recordings)
Plaintive, plangent, poignant – three words to describe the music of this intriguing duo
Gnod ‘Infinity Machines’ (Rocket)
The shape-shifting noisenik collective get to grips with machines in some style
Ghost Harmonic ‘Codex’ (Metamatic)
John Foxx embarks on a new foray into the ambient unknown with Benge and Diana Yukawa
Evvol ‘Eternalism’ (Mad Dog & Love)
The debut album from this Irish-Franco-German trio enchants the darker side of Berlin’s underbelly
Ekoplekz ‘Reflekzionz’ (Planet Mu)
The latest release from Bristol tech geek Nick Edwards may well be his best yet
Die Wilde Jagd ‘Die Wilde Jagd’ (Bureau B)
German analogue/digital duo’s debut rouses with an irresistible call to the fray
Death And Vanilla ‘To Where The Wild Things Are’ (Fire)
Sweden’s latest exports lead the wild rumpus with 1960s-inflected electro-dreampop
Blanck Mass ‘Dumb Flesh’ (Sacred Bones)
Fuck Buttons thinker muses on human flaws in fervid fashion
Bernard Fèvre ‘Suspense Cosmos 2043’ (Lo) / Black Devil ‘Disco Club’ (Lo)
Pioneering French disco producer reissues three classic 70s albums – and they’re just as stunning now