Blanck Mass & Associates ‘The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears Re-Score’ (Death Waltz Originals)
Fuck Buttons man leads a powerfully dense electronic re-score for Italo-horror homage
Test Dept & The South Wales Striking Miners Choir ‘Shoulder To Shoulder’ (PC-Press)
Industrial music, solidarity, political struggle – this timely reissue of the landmark collaboration has it all
The Advisory Circle ‘Other Channels’ / Mount Vernon Arts Lab ‘The Séance At Hobs Lane’ (Ghost Box)
A brace of timely reissues from the cult hauntology label’s catalogue of delights
Tame Impala ‘Currents’ (Fiction)
Kevin Parker’s super-slick third album kicks out the 60s jams and trips instead on the 80s
Qluster ‘Tasten’ (Bureau B)
Stunning neo-classical grand piano three-hander led by octogenarian krautrock master Roedelius
The Orb ‘Moonbuilding 2703 AD’ (Kompakt)
The Orb return to Kompakt for another ambient and psychedelic aural labyrinth
Lakker ‘Tundra’ (R&S)
Berlin-based dark-ambient techno duo filter raw nature through sculpted digital soundscapes
Die Wilde Jagd ‘Die Wilde Jagd’ (Bureau B)
German analogue/digital duo’s debut rouses with an irresistible call to the fray
Blanck Mass ‘Dumb Flesh’ (Sacred Bones)
Fuck Buttons thinker muses on human flaws in fervid fashion
Walls: Get Your Mortar Running
Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?