Disclosure
Settle
Available on: PMR LP
Speaking to FACT last year, Ben Parmar, one half of the team behind record label PMR, outlined his plan to “change people’s perception of what pop music is and what it [...]
CLOSE
Getting Closer
Available on: !K7 LP
Will Saul has benefitted hugely from the UK’s recent turn to house music. His label Simple was a source of solid, if not always stunning, house throughout the noughtie [...]
Queens of the Stone Age
…Like Clockwork
Available on: Matador LP
As the title of Queens of the Stone Age’s sixth album suggests, no other band of their generation has turned out such fully-formed, unforgiving albums with such regul [...]
Kode9
Rinse 22
Available on: Rinse CD
It’s a bit of a shock when you discover that once-innovators are as apt to fall prey to trends as anyone else. So it goes with Kode9’s new mix CD for pirate-turned-l [...]
Mount Kimbie
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Available on: Warp LP
Having spent the 10 ten years or so rearranging the focus of their roster, it comes as no surprise that Warp picked up Mount Kimbie for their second album Cold Spring [...]
Pure X
Crawling Up The Stairs
Available on: Acephale LP
For Pure X, The Difficult Second Album was never really going to be more difficult than the circumstances leading to its creation: drummer Austin Youngblood finally [...]
Baths
Obsidian
Available on: Anticon
In 2010, Will Wiesenfeld marked the end of one project and began another, releasing The Fabric under his Post-Foetus moniker and then inaugurating Baths with the Cerulean [...]
Benga
Chapter II
Available on: Columbia LP
The dubstep self portrait is in some ways just what you'd expect it to be – hyper-masculine severity dressed up in market stall street wear – but it can be tellin [...]
Laurel Halo
Behind the Green Door
Available on: Hyperdub EP
Whether they reference mind control programmes (‘MK Ultra’), particle physics (‘Supersymmetry’) or Philip K. Dick novels (King Felix, which she also adopted a [...]
The-Dream
IV Play
Available on: Def Jam LP
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Terius Nash is responsible for some of the biggest radio singles in recent memory and although he may not be as prolific as [...]
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