10 essential albums for spring

Part one: We present our preview of this season's best new albums from the big stars and up-and-coming acts. Remember, you heard it hear first ...

10 essential albums for spring

Part three: We present our preview of this season's best new albums from the big stars and up-and-coming acts. Remember, you heard it hear first ...

Miss Kittin, Batbox

(Nobody's Bizzness)

Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia, Pain Disappears

(Buzzin' Fly)

Hot Chip, Made in the Dark

It is rare indeed that the lumbering, moribund UK indie scene throws up an interesting band. Even – especially – taking into account those indie bands so cynically relabelled as “pop” by Radio 1’s head of music in Film&Music last … Continue reading →

Hot Chip, Made In The Dark

You might know them as pop nerds, but Ben Thompson just loves their power ballads

Luke Solomon, The Difference Engine

(Rekids)

M.A.N.D.Y., Fabric 38

(Fabric)

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The Bays/Heritage Orchestra

Ewan Pearson, Piece Work

When Aphex Twin released a double-disc roundup of his remix work four years ago, he showed no mercy, blitzing every track in his own avant-techno blender. Ewan Pearson is more of a master tailor, making shrewd adjustments for the dancefloor … Continue reading →

Studio, West Coast

Born of British DJs’ Ibiza-and-ecstasy honeymoon 20 years ago, Balearic wasn’t so much a genre of music as a spirit of benign adventure. The Swedish duo of Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg (who recently remixed Kylie) revive that ethos by … Continue reading →