Albums
January: 18 albums you need to hear this month
That's the month sorted then
Various 'Future Disco 10 – Complete. Repeat. A Disco Drama' (NeedWant)
The influential Future Disco turns its attention to contemporary funk jams with its 10th compilation, picking cosmic productions from Tensnake and Paul Woolford. Franc Moody injects ‘Yuri’ with intergalactic shots of synth, while Skatebård’s ‘The Bells Of Mist’ is all bells and otherworldly beats. DJ Koze’s Disco edit of Låpsley shines out of the speakers, before NYC’s Walker & Royce add some wriggling bass to Rhyze’s ‘Just How Sweet Is Your Love’. This is a collection that doesn’t settle for either just educating on the genre’s classics nor simply snapshotting its modern workings, but that isn’t to say it represents a grey area; if anything, it’s glittering. Leah Jade Connolly
8/10
