Yazoo ‘Four Pieces’ (Mute) + Soft Cell ‘Keychains & Snowstorms’ (UMC)
Only you… oh, and you
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army ‘Replicas – The First Recordings’ / Gary Numan ‘The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings’ (Beggars Arkive)
If the names of these two records said together are a mouthful, then spare a thought for Gary Numan, who’d wanted ‘Replicas’ to come out under his own name rather than as the follow-up to Tubeway Army’s eponymous debut.
Fad Gadget ‘The Best Of Fad Gadget’ (Mute)
Frank’s Wild Years ‘The Best Of Fad Gadget’ was originally released in 2001 to celebrate Frank Tovey bringing…
Carter Tutti Void ‘Triumvirate’ (Conspiracy International)
What happens when a third musician is introduced into an already well-established creative partnership, one forged over the best part of 40 years?
Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 (UMC/Virgin EMI)
Virgin Record’s run on German electronic and avant-garde talent in the 1970s kept the UK supplied with a soundtrack of electronic manifestations of mood.
A Certain Ratio ‘ACR:BOX’ (Mute)
Given that Factory Records svengali Tony Wilson made it his mission to establish Manchester as centre of the…
Gazelle Twin ‘Pastoral’ (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
Green and unpleasant lands
New Order ‘Movement (Definitive Edition)’ (Rhino)
The sights and sounds of a band in transition, this new boxset traces the tentative steps of a…
COSEY FANNI TUTTI ‘Tutti’ (Conspiracy International)
“My work is a continuum, the past feeding the present and vice versa. The album is an interpretation…
The Radiophonic Workshop ‘Possum’ (Room 13)
Who would have thought it? A career spanning over 50 years, and it’s only now we get The Radiophonic Workshop’s first feature film score.