Various Artists ‘Vari/Ations – Ode To Oram’ (Nonclassical)

Green and unpleasant lands

On their first album, the excellent ‘Buchla & Singing’, folk songwriter Caroline Schutz and synth sorcerer Reed Hays set compositions about such offbeat subjects as the beauty of washing machines or the lifecycle of earthworms to infectious electronic melodies and pristine beats.

Tough metallic grooves and demented robot vibes from Canadian producer David Psutka

Is this the album about architecture that Kraftwerk never made?

A brilliant collection of improvisations from two of krautrock’s heaviest hitters

The French pioneer and his young sidekick deliver an idiosyncratic collection of weirdness and wonderfulness