If melody and the avant garde are strangers, then the dreaded Fairlight synthesiser and good music are claws out, blood letting foes, never to be reconciled. There is an exception that proves this rule. Produced by the incomparable Bill Laswell, ‘Mister Heartbreak’ contains jaw droppingly beautiful melodies and a palette of sounds varied enough to 
A welcome return to the Four Tet project for Fridge’s Kieran Hebden. “There is Love in You” retains the organic feel that has graced his best work. There is a warmth to this recording, particularly the percussion that puts it in a different league to most dance oriented albums. “Rounds”, the album that brought Four 
Yello – Touch (2009)
Incontrovertible proof that there is a god! After nearly a decade of silence, the awful notion that there may not be another Yello album was beginning to nag with irksome persistence. There were wild rumours of a studio collaboration with Kraftwerk that could only have been started by a desperate hi-fi salesman; [...]
