Long Reads

After much listening and lively debate, here are our Top 75 Albums of 2025

In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”

Club-fuelled hedonism, arty vibes and their own self-styled “techno opera” – get ready for the playful euphoria of Awkward Moments

Twenty five years on from their spellbinding collaboration ‘Caged’, DiN founder Ian Boddy and Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter present a new edition with two reimagined tracks – an evocative reminder of their enduring alchemy

Inspired by the likes of Laurie Spiegel, Delia Derbyshire and Éliane Radigue, electronic minimalist Jo Johnson creates slow-burning sounds that shimmer with emotion and quiet intensity

William Basinski’s ‘The Disintegration Loops’ has attained legendary status. As an expansive new reissue drops, this dark ambient masterpiece drifts back into focus, shimmering with haunted reverie

Anarchic art-poppers Chicks On Speed are back with a career-spanning boxset and typically provocative new material. Co-founder Alex Murray-Leslie discusses witches, creative rebirths and trying to “break music”

With a killer electroclash compilation just released, Nag Nag Nag founder and DJ Jonny Slut lifts the lid on wild club nights, his Human League fixation and the time Cilla Black got down to some seriously filthy tunes

This year marks the centenary of Tristram Cary’s birth. Regarded as the father of British electronic music, it’s……