Metronomy: World View

Releasing a mere seven albums in the last 18 months, what has made Danish DJ/producer Martin Jensen – aka The Home Current – such an unstoppable force? Among the unlikely answers are Brexit and birdwatching 

Hard as it is to fathom, the gold lamé and grand orchestral pop of Sheffield’s ABC developed out of post-punk experimentalist outfit Vice Versa. What were they putting in the water up there in South Yorkshire?

Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs

As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.

Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson are back with the first No-Man album since 2008 – and it’s a return to their electronic roots, soundtracking a tale of tragic, fractured romance

Former Kraftwerk stalwart Karl Bartos has delved into his personal archive for his new album, ‘Off The Record’.The result is a futurist pop classic steeped in the past