Adamski ‘Revolt’ (Future Waltz)
Rave’s original pin-up boy pops his head over the parapet with his first album for 15 years
Boris Blank ‘Electrified’ (Blank Media)
A crowd-funded collection of career-spanning soundscapes from the mercurial Swiss electronic pioneer
Black Strobe ‘Godforsaken Roads’ (Blackstrobe)
Brylcreem and analogue synths. And you don’t get to hear those words in the same sentence very often
Aphex Twin ‘Syro’ (Warp)
You can keep your Kate Bush. The first new Aphex Twin album for more than a decade is the real musical event of the year
Various Artists ’12”/80s New Wave/12”/80s Chilled’ (Universal Music)
Two massive collections of 12-inch remixes from the 1980s – and there’s plenty of tasty stuff as well as the odd clanger
Yelle ‘Complètement Fou’ (Kemosabe)
Julie Budet and GrandMarnier confirm their reservation at the top table with a third album of quality electropop
Various Artists ‘Slowly Exploding’ (Perc Trax)
Celebrating 10 years of Perc Trax with a bumper selection of new material
Simian Mobile Disco ‘Whorl’ (Anti)
Cactus alert!! This is almost certainly the best electronic music album ever recorded in the middle of a desert
S’S ‘Exploded View Of Love’ (G@#9)
Where The Young Gods meets Black Flag. We advise you to put on a safety helmet before reading any further
Ryan Teague ‘Block Boundaries’ (Village Green )
It’s billed as a “hallucinogenic Ballardian journey”, but it isn’t quite as hallucinogenic or Ballardian as it might have been