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The Golden Filter AUTONOMY 4GN3S Where many eager to incorporate club music into pop end up merging both, Anglo-American couple Penelope Trappes and Stephen Hindman often switch from one to the other, making Autonomy an uneasy, intense experience. With its throbbing bass, echoing piano and nocturnal imagery, Coercion sounds like late-80s Depeche Mode, with the simplicity of its unsettling synth melody worthy of John Carpenter, while Infinity begins like Underworld, then adopts The Prodigy’s ferocity, before Trappes’ vocal climaxes as if she’s joined Suicide. Nonetheless, if Electric Light threatens to explore the hectic, dancefloor-friendly sounds of Soulwax’s NY Excuse, it ends with an elegant sophistication that recalls Roxy Music, and All The Queens makes a Chariots Of Fire circuit round a grim dungeon, before emerging into daylight. Wyndham Wallace

Review: The Golden Filter – Autonomy

Doctor Who - The Evil Of The Daleks

Review: Doctor Who – The Evil Of The Daleks

New Order + Liam Gillick - ∑ (No, 12K, Lg, 17mif)

Review – New Order + Liam Gillick – ∑ (No, 12K, Lg, 17mif): So It Goes

Mini Mansions guy walks into a bar fiction records There’s an overwhelming sense of familiarity to this record. From the Arctic Monkeys-esque opener, the album invites spot-the-influence moments: a Beatles melody here, a Devo-esque rhythm there, a touch of Elliott Smith elsewhere. This wouldn’t be a problem if the sense of familiarity wasn’t further emphasised by the generic approach of their rock band shtick. While it’s a clear shot for something more pop-heavy from the band, it often just sounds like dull indie being filtered through a different lens. The Tame Impala-like Time Machine finds the band entering into a new and pleasant groove that suits a new direction, but largely the high-octane rock stuff and super-on-the-nose ‘let’s try electronic pop’ stuff just all feels so well worn, tired and especially messy when they try to merge the two together. Daniel Dylan Wray

Review: Mini Mansions – Guy Walks Into A Bar

Ty Segall first taste drag city The ever-fecund Ty Segall returns with yet another new album which, if you include his work with White Fence and a live album, is his fifth LP released in just over a year. One thing that is as predictable as Segall’s workrate is his ever-changing moods; from glam-stomping rock one minute to Neil Young-esque acoustic the next, he’s an artist who very simply documents playing whatever he feels. Here, he’s in rock mode, but less the high-voltage garage-rock assault of old and more a measured full-band approach. From pop-leaning tracks with accompanying brass (Whatever) to more heavy psychedelic offerings (The Fall), Segall seems just as happy to genre-hop on this record. It works as a coherent record that rockets between fuzzed-out guitars and occasional prog-like torrents of erratic melody. Daniel Dylan Wray

Review: Ty Seagull – First Taste

Soundgarden live from the artists den umc Back when the sound of Seattle took on the mainstream, Soundgarden were the heavyweights of delectable downbeat anthems. However, in 1997 the band went on hiatus for 16 years, before reconvening for sixth album King Animal. Captured in action at LA’s Wiltern, Live From The Artists Den finds Chris Cornell and co in fine form. As fan favourites (Flower) and deep cuts (Blind Dogs) wrestle for space alongside 10 tracks from King Animal, it is the classics lifted from 1994’s Superunknown and 1991’s Badmotorfinger that are the highlights: Fell On Black Days, 4th Of July and Black Hole Sun butt heads with the frenzied onslaught of Jesus Christ Pose, Rusty Cage and Outshined, before the brutish epic Slaves & Bulldozers. The Super Deluxe box features the complete concert film on Blu-ray and a colour photobook. Dan Biggane

Review: Soundgarden – Live From The Artists Den

Madonna madame x polydor The signs weren’t promising for Madonna’s 14th album, but Madame X is punctuated by enough indelible moments. Strings float over I Don’t Search, I Find’s descending bassline until a phat house groove resurrects her Justify My Love murmur, and Dark Ballet leaps from delicate piano to a Switched On Bach take on Tchaikovsky’s Dance Of The Mirlitons. Equally eccentric is God Control, its autotuned vocal interrupted by Tiffin Children’s Chorus, before strings, a spoken interlude and gunshots deliver disco whose insanity is matched by Batuka, the chain gang chants of Portugal’s Batukadeiras Orchestra paired with explosive drums. Madonna is a stayer: as I Rise reminds us, “There’s nothing you can do to me that hasn’t been done”. Madame X confirms there’s plenty she can do that she’s still not done.Wyndham Wallace

Review: Madonna – Madame X

Body Hound

Review: Body Hound – No Moon

Two Door Cinema Club

Review: Two Door Cinema Club – False Alarm

Loops In The Secret Society

Review: Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society

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