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Before leaving the EU was a thing, Elizabeth Bernholz relocated from metropolitan Brighton to the soon-to-be “Vote Leave” climate of the Lincolnshire flatlands. The culture shock is still sinking in for Gazelle Twin, whose new ‘Pastoral’ album is an unsettling tour de force

Tunng are a band full of strange misfits. which is a good thing. It’s why the twinkling lights and long shadows of their new album, ‘songs you make at night’, sets it up as a proper contender for one of our records of the year

It was one of the first electronic records to hit the charts all over the world. It launched the space disco genre and laid down a marker for synthpop. The story of Space and ‘Magic Fly’ is quite a tale too. take your protein pills and put your helmet on

On the eve of their very last live show and with a mega 10-cd boxset in the shops, the one and only Dave Ball, Soft Cell’s other half, pulls up a pew and tells us a few tales from along the way…

They’ve patched up their differenceS (again) and turned in a banger of a new album (as always) for which they enlisted the help of some morris dancers and Professor Brian Cox (like you do). You need to ask who? It can only be the brothers Hartnoll and the unstoppable Orbital

They refer to themselves as “three mute girls”, but Haiku Salut are very happy to talk about their superb new album and their unusual live shows, which have taken place in churches, libraries and even the deep end of a swimming pool