The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future

Their new album, ‘Home Counties’, not only celebrates the leafy commuter belt burbs of their formative years, it also sees Saint Etienne getting back into the electronic groove of their prime

Cool band, good-looking singer, major label deal, infectious tunes. the Top 40 beckoned for 1980s Glasgow outfit Secession… some 18 years after the death of frontman Peter Thomson, we tell the story of a group who shouldn’t have fallen by the wayside

Releasing a mere seven albums in the last 18 months, what has made Danish DJ/producer Martin Jensen – aka The Home Current – such an unstoppable force? Among the unlikely answers are Brexit and birdwatching 

Female-fronted synthpop that would have ridden roughshod over the charts in the good old days. Hands up who wants to hear Sheffield’s International Teachers Of Pop?

Collecting a dazzling array of New Order production jobs stretching back to the 80s, the scope and scale of Manchester’s finest when behind a mixing desk is laid bare on the ‘New Order Presents Be Music’ compilation