Rival Consoles: Total Recall

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

Despite his new solo album being entirely instrumental, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore isn’t a man lost for words

Let’s get this straight: David Bowie was the godhead of 1970s electronic music. It was through him that electronic music was understood by a mass audience. His unique ability to synthesise, in both senses of the word, opened up pop music and revealed new ways of creating it, ways which would rapidly mutate and produce beautiful (and gloriously ugly) offspring in quick succession.

By anyone’s standards, 22 years is a while. As their new album ‘Suilven’ appears over the horizon, John Vick and Davie Miller explain why it’s taken the best part of two decades to morph from Finitribe to Finiflex