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

An immersive fusion of psychedelic sonics and experimentation, the debut long-player from master synthesist James Holden and intrepid jazz/electronic polymath Wacław Zimpel is a beguiling odyssey of exalted, hypnotic bliss

Mashing up trip hop, drum ’n’ bass, techno, metal and drill, Bristol’s Scaler unleash a pounding sonic brew

A new compilation celebrates South London’s influential Telepathic Fish ambient/chill-out parties of the 1990s. Some of the original crew look back at the scene’s evolution and how even a certain Richard D James joined the fold

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