Search results: The Sensitives

Review: The Fall's Mark E. Smith was having a rather torrid time even by his own standards when the band made The Marshall Suite in 1999. He was fresh back from a US tour on which he had been fighting with fellow band members on stage and was later arrested after carrying on the shenanigans back at the hotel. The album itself builds on the techno sounds The Fall had explored on the preceding album Levitate but also with something of a return to the rockabilly-influenced sound from earlier Fall line-ups. Cuts like 'The Crying Marshal' are as strange and complex as they come with thumping jungle drums powering it along.

Review: Natalia Baylis based her first album for Touch Sensitive around the fortuitous discovery of an Italian-made CRB Elettronica Ancona Diamond 708 E organ at the recycling centre, in what now seems like a fated outcome for the Irish ambient artist. Feeding the wonky sound of the instrument into swirling pools of processing, she used one of her father's old photos of three ladies bathing in the sea to set her angle of approach - and so Mermaids came to be. Enchanting, mysterious and flowing like the ocean, we couldn't think of a more fitting title for this mesmerising album.

Review: Welsh quintet Super Furry Animals put out their fifth studio album Rings Around the World in 2001. It was by far their most commercially successful at that time, and remains so nearly a quarter of a century later. Maybe that was down to the fact it was their most eclectic, too: elements of everything from techno to death melts, pop to jungle, punk to prog characterised the tracks. The LP was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001 and in the same year was named as Mojo's best album. This 20th anniversary reissue comes on heavyweight vinyl.

Review: Studio maestro Luz1e makes a big debut here on Mechatronica with a fresh EP that blends various different styles into something unique. It's a collision of delicate electro and dystopian machine funk, that is all evocatively detailed with the haunting vocals of DALO and futuristic atmospheres. After a scene-setting intro comes the blistering workout that is 'Escapism' and a further electro-tech banger in 'Sonic Impact" (feat DALO)'. Flip it over for the celestial raver that is 'Language Of The Unheard' and 'Sensitivity' both of which bring HALO back to the mic. 'Sensory Perception' closes with some cinematic ambiance.