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ALBUM REVIEW: A Certain Ratio – ‘ACR Loco’: taut Mancunian future funk and effortless electronic pop

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Album Review: MG : MG

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A Certain Ratio, the influential Manchester-based three-piece, is gearing up to release their thirteenth studio album on April 19, 2024, via Mute. As a tantalizing preview of what’s to come, the band has recently unveiled their latest single, ‘All Comes Down to This‘. The single is characterized by its unique riffs, featuring a mix of …

Goldfrapp have shared details of the long awaited ‘Felt Mountain’ reissue, set for release on 25 March 2022 via Mute / BMG on gold vinyl and CD, with extensive new sleeve notes by Lior Phillips and photography by Joe Dilworth and Anna Fox Originally released by Mute in September 2000, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory’s debut features many tracks that …

SYLPH, the new iteration and solo project of the former singer with South London post-punks S.C.U.M., Thomas Cohen, is rounding off his year with a final, four-track EP, Ancient Hole, to which he invited the musical aesthetics of big, cast-iron techno names such as Regis, Terence Fixmer and Nicolas Bougaïeff and composer and singer Anni Hogan. And as well as being …

DANIEL MILLER’S independent mainstay Mute have revealed the latest addition to an already diverse and dazzling stable; and that signing comes in the shape of Quinquis, the new project of Yann Tiersen’s wife and former Tiny Feet chanteuse Émilie Tiersen. As Tiny Feet, Émilie released a brace of albums of rather gorgeous, complex Francophone pop …

WITH the Can Live In Stuttgart 1975 set out in the racks now and being eagerly devoured and analysed by fans, Mute and Spoon Records already have the next live set from the actually legendary Can ready on the runway. We’re just two weeks away from the release of the second, sprawling, transporting and wholly …

HIS CAREER behind the decks and in the studio, fostering the techno scene in his home city of Frankfurt, spanning its third decade now, Chris Liebing shows no signs of either losing his edge nor his acuity at a creating a banger. His new opus, Another Day, is out on Mute just a day more …

THE BAND which Andrew Weatherall once described as “one of this country’s most underrated”, but which, since last year’s triumphant ACR Loco are the very definition of vivacious, restless, supremely creative – in full renaissance – are but days away now from the release of Loco Remezclada, their long-awaited remixes album. They’ve revealed one last …

WITH their collaborative long player just a week away now, Bristol dub-punk collective The Pop Group and bass overlord Dennis Bovell MBE have dropped one final taster of Y In Dub, the rerub of The Pop Group’s era-defining 1979 debut Y. Drill down bone deep below with the retake on “3:38”, the flip of The …

BAD SEEDS founder member and smouldering, potent artist in her own right, Anita Lane left us far too young this April, at the age of 61; her on-off solo career had never really received the sales it should’ve been accorded, and she remained underappreciated, seemingly having slipped from view in recent years. But Mute are …

THERE’S to be no rest for the wickedly, insistently, incisively funky: A Certain Ratio, with the deservedly acclaimed ACR: Loco (our review, here) and a slew of excellent postscriptual EPs under their belts this past year, paying tribute to Denise Johnson, Andrew Weatherall and just generally deep and insistent, exploratory funk listening – and a …