Rival Consoles: Total Recall

byStephen Dalton
July 10, 2025

Reinvigorated electronic maestro Ryan Lee West – aka Rival Consoles – is back with ‘Landscape From Memory’, a thrilling album that might be his most electrifying yet

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Walls: Get Your Mortar Running

byCarl Griffin

Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?

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26 minute read

Kraftwerk: Love Hertz

byMark Roland

It’s the 50th anniversary of ‘Radio-Activity’, the darkest of the five albums Kraftwerk produced between 1974 and 1981

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12 minute read

Factory Records: A Certain Ratio

byBen Murphy

One of the first bands signed to Factory, A Certain Ratio helped to define the label’s distinctive look and sound, from their Peter Saville-designed record sleeves to their individualistic output.

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4 minute read

Sudan Archives: Feel The Power

byJeremy Allen

Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date

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13 minute read

Spizzenergi: Enterprise Allowance

byPush

He landed the inaugural Independent Chart’s first Number One single with Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’. Four decades on, the irrepressible Spizz shows little sign of slowing down…

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9 minute read

The Alan Parsons Project: Future Tense

byBob Fischer

In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”