Miles Otto
Crazily young machine musician
Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘Multi-Love’ (Jagjaguwar)
Polyamory-inspired psychedelia that will warm even the hardest of hearts
Barbarossa ‘Imager’ (Memphis Industries)
Third album from Londoner James Mathé is a real cerebral charmer
R
Saving electropop one single at a time
Young Wonder ‘Birth’ (Feel Good Lost)
Cork-based duo look fit to burst with their wistfully glittering electropop
Jamie xx ‘In Colour’ (Young Turks)
The production wing of The xx steps out of the shadows with his first solo full-length
Evvol ‘Eternalism’ (Mad Dog & Love)
The debut album from this Irish-Franco-German trio enchants the darker side of Berlin’s underbelly
Blancmange ‘Semi Detached’ (Cherry Red)
Following his reappearance in 2011, Neil Arthur’s music just gets better and better the second time around
LTO
Mysterious producer, equally enigmatic EP
Evvol
Exotically brewed, haunting trance-pop