Leftfield ‘Alternative Light Source’ (Infectious Music)
Techno demigod Neil Barnes picks up where he left off. Brace your ears
Jonteknik ‘Structural’ (Jonteknik Music)
Is this the album about architecture that Kraftwerk never made?
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam ‘Ela’ (Freaksville Recordings)
The French pioneer and his young sidekick deliver an idiosyncratic collection of weirdness and wonderfulness
Jamie xx ‘In Colour’ (Young Turks)
The production wing of The xx steps out of the shadows with his first solo full-length
Hot Chip ‘Why Make Sense?’ (Domino)
Getting back with your ex isn’t always advisable, but Hot Chip are giving it another shot
Holly Herndon ‘Platform’ (4AD)
The California-based boffin returns triumphant with an ingenious second album of laptop exploits
Grasscut ‘Everyone Was A Bird’ (Lo Recordings)
Plaintive, plangent, poignant – three words to describe the music of this intriguing duo
Gnod ‘Infinity Machines’ (Rocket)
The shape-shifting noisenik collective get to grips with machines in some style
Ghost Harmonic ‘Codex’ (Metamatic)
John Foxx embarks on a new foray into the ambient unknown with Benge and Diana Yukawa
Evvol ‘Eternalism’ (Mad Dog & Love)
The debut album from this Irish-Franco-German trio enchants the darker side of Berlin’s underbelly