Guardian Music — (4AD)Such is the glut of ethereal electropop, new acts risk drifting past with all the unearthly beauty of a cheap air freshener. So what a pleasure that Canadian duo Purity Ring have sidestepped wafty, dream-pop cliche to make an album that repays e... more info

Guardian Music — R&S Records' new bass and techno prodigy empties the contents of his psychic record bagThe track I'll be opening my next DJ set with Levon Vincent: Revs/Cost I always play at least three or four Levon Vincent tracks in every set. I really like openin... more info

Guardian Music — Lo-fi R&B melodies meet new age atmospherics in Montreal-based artist's hypnotic weirdo popThree weeks barricaded inside a room without food, sleep or company. It sounds like the kind of thing you'd only put yourself through if you were quitting hero... more info

Guardian Music — The veteran risk-taker's Ivor Novello-listed album maps out a future for female musicians, according to one of her famous fansThe nomination this week of Kate Bush's latest album, 50 Words for Snow, for an Ivor Novello award is an acknowledgement of ... more info

Guardian Music — The Swedish goth-pop purveyor turns her dark outlook on life into big throbbing electronicaApparently Swedish goth-pop purveyor Karin Park's forthcoming debut album Highwire Poetry was influenced by her strict religiousupbringing in a remote Swedish ... more info

Pop Justice — Rebecca & Fiona's debut album was one of 2011's big obsessions at Popjustice HQ so we are VERY PLEASED INDEED that the Swedish DJ / production / popwarbling duo are going to be globally enormous in 2012. They've given us the first look at the video... more info

Guardian Music — Scala, LondonFirst Aid Kit seem to emanate from some strange Nordic Nashville. Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg play a stripped-down, haunting strain of alt-country rock that sounds as if it should spring from the loins of dusty midwest p... more info

DrownedInSound — CFCF who've previously remixed the likes of HEALTH, Holy Ghost!, Porcelain Raft, Owen Pallett, memoryhouse, Junior Boys and Fever Ray, and have a few releases to their name, have morphed Bear in Heaven's drifting but rich 'The Reflection of You' into... more info

Music For Ants — Martin de Thurah, the auteur behind a number of amazing videos like Fever Ray’s “When I Grow Up” and James Blake’s “Limit To Your Love” directs this ravishing, cinematic video for “The Bad In Each Me”, the best track on the Feist’s... more info

Impose Magazine — Ghostly International recording artist and dark-pop maestro Matthew Dear guides us further into the unknown with the Headcage EP. Functioning as a lead-up to his full-length Beams, Dear's new appendage in the evolution of his black orchestrations... more info