Depeche Mode ‘Memento Mori’ (Columbia)
Duo Purpose
Young Fathers ‘Heavy Heavy’ (Ninja Tune)
Weight Lifters
Ryuichi Sakamoto ’12’ (Milan)
Key Notes
Leftfield ‘This Is What We Do’ (Virgin)
Original Thinkers
Plaid ‘Feorm Falorx’ (Warp)
Space Odyssey
Make Space For Eno
In a talk at the Barbican, Brian Eno tackled the idea of space in music. Over 90 minutes he freewheeled from early recording techniques to Dolby Atmos, to the addition and removal of reverb in music, and ended with a request…
Telefís ‘a Dó’ (Dimple Discs)
“My progress has been fitful,” Cathal Coughlan once said of his career. In the Irish songwriter’s life, there were certainly “anti-career” moments. His original band Microdisney supported David Bowie in concert then immediately split up. He shoved a Virgin Mary souvenir up his backside in a typically riotous performance with The Fatima Mansions. And as Bubonique, he recorded an album called ‘Trance Arse Volume 3’ with the comedian Sean Hughes. Now that’s a career.
NEU! ’50!’ (Grönland)
NEW BEAT
Orbital ’30 Something’ (London)
Rave New World Thirty-something years ago, the thing that routinely disrupted the nascent British dance music scene was……