New Order ‘Music Complete’ (Mute)
Manchester’s finest serve up one of the year’s biggest albums. We take a long, hard listen…
Various Artists ’20 Years Of Being Skint’ (Skint)
Celebrating two decades of the Brighton label that led the Big Beat charge
Dan Tombs: Vision On
Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs
Willis Earl Beal
Coming on like a ‘Twin Peaks’ version of Otis Redding
Shitwife
Making Sleaford Mods look like Bucks Fizz
British Electric Foundation ‘Groove Thang’
You might know ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ as a Heaven 17 song, but it started life as ‘Groove Thang’, an instrumental on BEF’s cassette-only debut, ‘Music For Stowaways’. Martyn Ware explains how the track liberated him from The Human League’s synth-only policy and helped him uncover a very rare talent
Telepathe
NYC gone LA duo fill up with funky fuel
Rodney Cromwell
Synthpop with a heavy dose of nostalgia
Years & Years ‘Communion’ (Polydor)
Chart toppers turn in a pop-fuelled debut with a twist of… oh, what is it?
Asian Dub Foundation ‘More Signal More Noise’ (ADF Communications/believe)
The return of a band who always do things their own way… Hold on, they’ve got a flute