Long Reads

With its clubby swagger and “scuffed vignettes”, Baxter Dury’s new album, ‘Allbarone’, is a joyous tour de force of bangers and typically sardonic lyrical swipes.

Hamburg’s formidable Black Sites – Helena Hauff and Kris Jakob – finally unleash their first full-length offering, an electrifying collision of machine precision and pulsating EBM

Rooted in Pan-African tradition, Moroccan artist Guedra Guedra deploys a broad palette of sounds and vital rhythms from across his home continent

Marking the 30th anniversary of ‘Sirius Sounds’, Children Of The Bong are back with a collection of remixes that reimagine their 1990s psychedelic/acid/dub frequencies for the 21st century

With her intoxicating new solo offering, ‘Night Mirror’, Claudia Brücken reaffirms her status as one of synthpop’s most enigmatic and enduring voices

The shadowy sonics of Cincinnati pairing Reaper On Red pulse with dark psych, brooding electronics and “gothic-shaded salvos”  

Reinvigorated electronic maestro Ryan Lee West – aka Rival Consoles – is back with ‘Landscape From Memory’, a thrilling album that might be his most electrifying yet

It’s 46 years since Robin Scott slipped into the sharp suits of his M alter ego and stormed the charts worldwide with ‘Pop Muzik’. Now, for the first time since 1982, he has revived that singular initial for his new album

Stroud electro-art duo Wooolheads put the quirk in quirky, stitching surreal spoken word and pulsing synths into wonderfully offbeat patchworks

Early 1980s synthpop outfit The Mood should have been contenders, but misfortune and mismanagement got in the way.