Groove-y, relaxed, and tropical, Wolf Parade turns in a beautiful mess for album number three.

Despite high expectations, the Casady Sisters' fourth effort never manages to find its legs in a sea of pretty noise.

The Africa Chamber presents much more originality than just another case of strung-together loops of borrowed sounds. A very focused and more mature album than his previous Africa collaborations, it features a complex fusion of digital loops, ambient sounds, hand drums and horns.

Those who know his artistic output certainly have noticed that any recognizable tones of a guitar successively fade from his electronic production. This album is no different. Only occasionally we get to hear unfolding string sounds, touched with or treated with an object.

Picking up a record by Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem is always a deeply (spi)ritual experience.

The latest beau of the masked ball is techno producer Redshape, behind whose slightly unnerving red plastic visage allegedly hides a Famous Techno Producer In Disguise.

Wildling does not restrain any metaphorical punches to try and pry open your third eye, to awaken your body to a new transcendence and then set you free to your own surrealist devices.

While this is almost antithetical to old-school dubstep, its newfound popularity in the last couple years has led several artists to seek out new ways of ‘resisting’ this intrusion of pop upon their bassline.

2562 is able to masterly balance past references with bold novelties.

Their limited edition, hand-numbered, green vinyl 7” single spins at 33 revolutions per minute and is housed inside a 7"x7" 24-page glossy photo book which by now is a collectors item.

Layering possibilities are countless and I think the joy of mixing and revealing mutually influencing systems will infect many listeners.

Houseplant is frustrating because many tracks here beg to be considered outrageous or transgressive in some way, but the band consistently comes off as too professional to risk an unadministered moment.

If these tracks could work perfectly as singles, they can hardly convince as an album, unless you just need something to put on shuffle while you're working or relaxing.

5 stands as an awe-inspiring monument to both Hyperdub and the dubstep movement as a whole.