Cerrone ‘The Best Of Cerrone Productions’ (Because Music)
Gaelic disco king serves up retrospective collection of his finest floorfillers
Belle And Sebastian ‘Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance’ (Matador)
Indie darlings serve up surprisingly good electronic album shocker. Well, this is a surprise.
Black Strobe ‘Godforsaken Roads’ (Blackstrobe)
Brylcreem and analogue synths. And you don’t get to hear those words in the same sentence very often
Various Artists ’12”/80s New Wave/12”/80s Chilled’ (Universal Music)
Two massive collections of 12-inch remixes from the 1980s – and there’s plenty of tasty stuff as well as the odd clanger
ROC: For those about to ROC
Few bands survive being swallowed whole by the music industry, but south London’s ever-inventive sonic tinkerers ROC are thankfully made of sterner stuff
Yelle ‘Complètement Fou’ (Kemosabe)
Julie Budet and GrandMarnier confirm their reservation at the top table with a third album of quality electropop
Dorian Concept ‘Joined Ends’ (Ninja Tune)
Austrian wunderkind reinvents himself for a second album of progressive, pushing the envelope electronica
Buried Treasure
Location: Berkshire Est: 2013
Luke’s Anger: Anger Management
Our esteemed Tech section kit reviewer Luke Sanger doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk as techno producer Luke’s Anger. We hitch a ride with him for a weekend in Poland to discover how he cuts his one-man rug live…
Matt Johnson: The Soul Miner
To mark the release of a special deluxe vinyl edition of ‘Soul Mining’, Matt Johnson reveals the inside story of the classic The The album – the drug highs, the wrecked hotel rooms, the fist fights, the dumped tracks, the works…