Guardian Music — (Polydor)There's a lot of clever things going on in this debut album by 22-year-old Orlando Higginbottom (below). Feted as the new face of pop/dance crossover, he wears headdresses like Lady Gaga and shows equal bravado in the musical influences he h... more info

Guardian Music — Death and Desire, Digits' near classic of mournful electronica, is a synth-pop album to stand alongside the Human League's DareHometown: Toronto/London.The lineup: Alt Altman (voice, music).The background: There are currently so many girls with synth... more info

Impose Magazine — We never saw the connection, but now that it's arrived it makes sense that there's a thread between The Weeknd and Junior Boys. We have Motion Studies to thank for the enlightening line drawing work. Motion Studies is fronted by former Tempo... more info

Core News — “As 6 Music Celebrates: Dance Culture, Andrew Weatherall chats to Terry Farley. The duo started the now notorious Boy’s Own fanzine in 1986, which commented on the slang, the parties, the tunes and the humour of the acid house days, and which als... more info

Guardian Music — These Guildford goodfellas make gently atmospheric electro-pop. It's an offer you can easily refuse …Hometown: Guildford.The lineup: Joel Amey (vocals), James Balmont (bass, guitars, keyboards), Cameron Knight (lead guitars, beats).The background: ... more info

XLR8R — Canadian duo Junior Boys has been turning out thoughtful, synth-driven electronic music for nearly a decade, most recently on 2011's It's All True. Apparently, at least one half of the group is ready to stretch his creative legs as a solo a... more info

XLR8R — Next week, Vancouver duo Humans will release the Traps EP, the debut offering from the newly launched Hybridity label. (For those taking notes at home, the folks at Hybridity are also behind Vancouver's New Forms Festival, which we visited—and... 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

Guardian Music — Warm, LondonSince the release of his tremendous psychedelic beat-pop collage Swim in 2010, Caribou's Dan Snaith has been edging ever closer to the murky, nocturnal world of dance music. There have been triumphant main room sets at Fabric, pulsating r... more info

Pop Justice — If you ever want to make yourself APOPLEPTIC WITH RAGE, have a look at what other countries get up to in the run-up to Eurovision, how many great people want to represent their country when they know their country will take their efforts seriously, a... more info