Floodlights ‘A Beautiful Stage’ (Modern Aviation)
Fittingly for a collection whose title track takes inspiration from Philippe Petit’s heart-stopping 1974 high wire walk between…
Field Lines Cartographer ‘The Spectral Isle’ (Castles In Space)
Mark Burford’s sixth sonic exploration (his first for Castles In Space) explores Hy-Brasil, an elusive, mythical phantom island…
Dangerwank ‘Your Card Has Been Declined’ (Salmon Universe)
The anonymous and un-Googleable Dangerwank could be anyone: Banksy, Burial, Shergar. However, the modern media motifs are instantly…
X Marks The Pedwalk ‘Transformation’ (Meshwork)
Pump up the balloons. ‘Transformation’ is the 10th album by German EBM pioneers X Marks The Pedwalk and…
Various Artists ‘Head In The Clouds’ (Fruits De Mer)
Given an infinite field to run wild in by the UK’s foremost psychedelic independent, two different CDs and…
Thurston Moore ‘By The Fire’ (The Daydream Library Series)
This year started with Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore opening a record shop in his adopted home of…
The Night Monitor ‘Spacemen Mystery Of The Terror Triangle’ (Fonolith)
With titles that read like lost episodes of ‘Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World’, ‘Spacemen Mystery Of The Terror…
Télépopmusik ‘Everybody Breaks The Line’ (Warm Music)
Named after an old TV repair shop on Paris’ Avenue Jean-Jaurès that’s still operational, Télépopmusik’s re-emergence some 15…
Sun Ra Arkestra ‘Swirling’ (Strut)
Now 96, Marshall Allen leads the late Sun Ra’s Arkestra on a rich celebration of catalogue-straddling classics. Tara…
Polypores ‘Terrain’ (Frequency Domain)
In which Polypores gets completely pixelated. It’s hard to imagine the prolific Stephen James Buckley ever kicking back…