Having more or less perfected their sleek electro-noir with 2008’s savagely brilliant Velocifero, and distilled their career into the rapturously received Best Of 00â€"10, it’s natural that Ladytron would want to shake up their formula with this fifth album. Where previous albums have given equal weight to...

The nicely designed CD art and card cover to this promo shortly give way to bitter disappointment as you are confronted with something that sounds like a nightmarish version of Alphabeat and the Scissor Sisters in a blender; the horribly chirpy tune grates, the high pitched vocal delivery is nasal...

São Paulo's CSS are back after a three-year break with La Liberación, a third album which attempts to address the criticisms faced by their previous two. Their self-titled debut â€" released back in 2006 â€" was firmly positioned as a posturing throwaway, all sweary and light; 2008’s newly-sober...

This, believe it or not, is Robots in Disguises' testimonial year. After three albums, "Happiness v Sadness" marks the fourth full-length effort from the British and German duo, with ten years removed from their debut. This album has been funded by the innovative Pledge Music crowdsourcing scheme, which means that...

For some reason, Fischer-Z were always inappropriately compared to Talking Heads. A more inappropriate comparison I could not think of. The two bands share almost nothing in common. Talking Heads were about art, Man, art. Fischer-Z were about life, growing up, politics - everyday stuff with an everyday relevance to...

Ontario’s Junior Boys have been charming us with their soulful brand of electro-pop for a good few years now, but they’ve never sounded as much fun as they do on new album It’s All True.

A duo comprised of songwriter Jeremy Greenspan and engineer Matthew Didemus, the Boys’ latest record...

There’s an eternal optimism to Digitalism. The sound of two friends, Jens and Isi, having the time of their lives, it takes a stubbornly miserable disposition to begrudge such bouncing positivity.

Part of the much-celebrated electro class of 2006/07, their debut album Idealism enabled the duo to graduate with honours...

"Wait & See"from the album Holy Ghost!2011iTunesHoly Ghost! wears its influences proudly: Look no further than the duo's video for "I Will Come Back," a shot-for-shot remake of the music video for New Order's 1983 single, "Confusion." The band's debut album could be...

James Pants is as difficult to pigeonhole as an oversized parcel. In his official biography, his record label describes the 27-year-old multi-instrumentalist â€" Mr Singleton to the tax man, in case you're wondering â€" as a "purveyor par excellence of that unmistakable 'fresh beat' [sound]: 80s soul, electro boogie, early...

"2 Hearts"from the album I Love You Dude2011iTunesDigitalism's sophomore effort, I Love You Dude, arrives almost four years after the release of their acclaimed the debut, 2007's Idealism. But it's not like the German electro duo was just sitting around on their hands. Jens Moelle...