BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB’s ETINCELLES: cult French disco legend returns with retro-future grooves
Retro-futuristic beats and eccentric disco vibes populate this latest release from cult French groover Black Devil Disco Club.
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GOLD PANDA perfects signature electro sound on fourth album
The Work is a beautiful, cosy album, that undeniably sounds like a Gold Panda record. Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another six years for another.
SALLY SHAPIRO reunites for first album in six years – and little has changed
Putting aside their musical differences at last, Swedish duo Sally Shapiro are back with more of the same synthpop-slash-Italo disco on new album, Sad Cities.
GOLD: melancholic synthpop at its most nostalgic from RIKI
Gold, the second album from Riki, seees the self-identifying New Romantic leave behind the darkwave of her debut for 80s synthpop.
NEW FLESH: too few sparks in LOVE OBJECT’s Russian spin on electro-pop
Is electroclash back? Did it never end in Russia? Love Object's New Flesh poses many questions but provides few fresh answers.
RIVAL CONSOLES’ sonic social commentary fails to take off on OVERFLOW
Overflow, Ryan Lee West’s seventh album as Rival Consoles, doesn't manage to make sweet music out of toxic web practices.
RITMO FANTASÍA: seriously smooth Spanish synth of the 80s
Venezuelan DJ Trujillo has dug deep to unearth some seriously smooth Iberian bangers for Ritmo Fantasia.
MUSIC FOR PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY: beautiful, authentic ambience from JON HOPKINS
While it’s easy to mock ambient, it can’t diminish Jon Hopkins' Music For Psychedelic Therapy from being a simply beautiful album.
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Unlikely reggae covers selected by Don Letts; kick-ass American rock and country women Melissa Etheridge and Mickey Guyton; Bristol jazzers Run Logan Run and Vangelis soundtracking a mission to Jupiter, like he was born to.
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