Rezzett: Rezzett review – distressed dancefloor classics

The anonymous dance music duo’s powerful debut full-length shreds a seemingly pristine digital surface

The 50 best albums of 2018, No 2: Robyn – Honey

Gorgeous harmonies and unerring emotional intelligence dominate on this looser, clubbier follow-up to Body Talk

Orbital review – techno giants still raging against the political machine

Their sledgehammer polemic is brought up to date in an gloriously overwhelming visual and musical assault on the senses

Underworld review – pulse-pumping euphoria with dank dance superstars

The electronic alchemists serve up rich rave manna with tales of love, lust and squalor in a career-spanning set that shows them still at the height of their galloping powers

Clean Bandit: What Is Love? review – underwhelming chart catnip

The British band’s second album is larded with forced melodies, sound-alike songs and a chart-chasing sensibility

Jónsi: Frakkur 2000-2004 review – playful, engaging solo works

Bowed guitar to the fore, Jónsi Birgisson is one of the lodestones of 21st-century art rock. With Sigur Rós becalmed again (their last album was in 2013), and his other projects – Riceboy Sleeps and Jónsi solo – on mute, … Continue reading →

Afro Celt Sound System: Flight review – unflagging spirit and invention

On a visit to Senegal in 1991, the London-born producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson was struck by an odd but compelling notion that the folk traditions of west Africa and western Europe were entwined. Since 1995, his Afro Celt Sound System has … Continue reading →

Vessel: Queen of Golden Dogs review – a gloriously weird electro-odyssey

Jarring and gratifyingly beautiful, this restless album draws on everything from dubstep to Spanish surrealism

My Brightest Diamond: A Million and One review – chilly art pop that grasps for greatness

Shara Nova’s fifth full-length album is best when it focuses on pop rather than art

The Prodigy: No Tourists review – music for the jaded generation

Maxim Reality and Keith Flint keep shouting through Liam Howlett’s earth-shaking sub bass, but some of the slogans sound empty

Julia Holter: Aviary review – sonic beauty and brains in a 90-minute epic

Holter’s album is complex, with bits of avant-garde experimentation, but it’s always appealing

No Bounds festival – DJs in thrall to sound of subversion

From ear-bleed techno to wall-wobbling beats, No Bounds’ roster moved electronic music way beyond the dancefloor

Matthew Dear: Bunny review – eclectic post-punk via heavy electronics

The ‘King chameleon’ rifles through genres, adding basslines that make for an engaging listen

Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman review – tormented techno subverted by humour

Cruelly comic, the Québécois producer skewers dance music culture and its ability to subsume personalities

Ryoji Ikeda review – techno data storm assaults the senses

The Japanese composer and visual artist’s polyrhythmic techno confronts our digital dystopia