KOGG: Spanner In The Works

Fifteen long years since their last full-length album, Seefeel present the magnificent ‘Sol.Hz’ – a richly atmospheric drift through dub-heavy bass, fragmented hooks and lustrous sound design

Channelling early 4AD and ‘Pornography’-era Cure, the haunting liturgies of Welsh-language, avant-goth trio Tristwch Y Fenywod are rooted in atmospheric darkwave and alien folk music. Dry ice optional

In an exclusive extract abridged from their new book, ‘Renegade Snares – The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass’, authors Ben Murphy and Carl Loben pick their way through the origins of the more mellow offshoot, and it all starts with LTJ Bukem

In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”