This year’s best electronic albums span the widest range of styles of any genre, ranging from melodic electro and warm house to the experimental outer reaches.
Sudan Archives’ The BPM is a high-tech, futuristic odyssey, full of heaving, sweaty, dance-floor-ready anthems. It’s also an intensely human record
Tremor feels like the start of a brand new chapter for Daniel Avery. While he paints with a lot of familiar colors, there are also many new shades.
This is the sound of Gorillaz at their most innovative yet reassuringly familiar.
Nothing on Blood Orange’s new album is a throwaway, because it fulfills a deep need within his creative soul. It’s also profoundly beautiful and deeply cathartic.
Loner will see Barry Can’t Swim continue his rapid ascent and, in turn, cement his status as one of the most exciting new talents in electronic dance music.
With Chorophobia, Weval have crafted their most club-ready album to date. With its laser focus on the dancefloor, it feels like a well-constructed DJ set.
Baxter Dury has created a rare album that continually reveals hidden depths, both lyrically and musically. Allbarone is a richly observed record.
Elkka’s Euphoric Melodies is full of pulse-quickening beats and dizzying synths imbued with a sense of inclusivity for life-affirming moments on the dancefloor.
Rare, Forever synthesizes Leon Vynehall’s musical instincts into one unique vision. Both beguiling abstract and instantly gratifying it’s as dizzyingly immersive as Nothing Is Still.
Electropop's Amethysts share their new single, "Alone", a gently understated, gleaming pop gem that gently drips into your subconcious.
Britsh trio IYEARA offer the first taste of a forthcoming reworking of Mark Lanegan's Somebody's Knocking with a remix of "Playing Nero".
