Disco Pogo

Our Album Of The Year

Disco Pogo says: "‘Temporary’ was everything those besieged by the times, yet refusing to be defeated, would want it to be. A sonic comfort blanket, in its dusty, understated grooves, the barely-there found sounds and the melding of winsome folktronica and woozy, weightless beats is an elegiac defiance."

Album Of The Year: 3

Disco Pogo says: "‘International’ is jam-packed with smash hits, all charged with disco-flecked pop frivolity and an endearing stylish and literate sensibility. It’s a fitting send-off for a band that have soundtracked our lives – through the wide-eyed thrills of the teenage years and one’s carefree twenties, through to an eventual, possibly reluctant, maturing and into middle age (or a teenage winter as they might have it) – for the best part of four decades."

Album Of The Year: 7

Disco Pogo says: "‘Tremor’, sees the curious Avery take another musical detour, this time to the band-dominated, shoegaze, post-rock and industrial sounds that comprised his teenage years. Pleasingly, rather than slavishly create a My Bloody Valentine-meets-Mogwai-and-Nine Inch Nails pastiche, Avery has injected ‘Tremor’ with an electronic pulse: there are hints of Chicago and Detroit innovators like Larry Heard and Drexciya while a very British dread also emerges."

Album Of The Year: 8

Disco Pogo says: "‘Tall Tales’ doesn’t sound difficult: tracks like the brooding ‘Back in the Game’ and the future rock of ‘This Conversation is Missing Your Voice’ are vivacious and natural, a perfectly simpatico meeting of musical minds whose casual elegance suggests that this is what Yorke and Pritchard might have been edging towards over their six collected decades in music."

Album Of The Year: 9

Disco Pogo says: "This is entirely [Justin] Robertson’s show and it’s a commanding and otherworldly performance; a voyage into the heart of rhythmical repetition, where the disco is discordant and the pogo most rebelliously post-punk. Stunning stuff."

Album Of The Year: 10

Disco Pogo says: "If the title indicates Soulwax are on a mission – a tireless quest for answers in a post-truth world, without which they will never find peace of mind – the music posits that life is pretty simple; that happiness is attained on a dancefloor, with your eyes closed, the chime of a fake guitar ringing in your ears."