Synthetic rockers The Culprit might be a little too glossy for this jaded hack, but their eponymous album might turn the heads of younger less cynical listeners.

Bristol-based Turbowolf crank up the angry sleaze on “Let’s Die”, a high-velocity slice of electro-rock’n'roll that’s maybe the first to be worthy of the name.

Chicagoan electro-rock gloomsters The Glide prove that self-released debuts don’t have to be rubbish with A Future For The Dead. Listen and learn, kids.

Southampton sleaze-rockers Plastic Toys are still ticking over; “Dirty” is the fourth industrial-synth-pop gem from their debut album For Tonight Only.

Hey, guess who never went away? It’s Southampton’s trash-rock terrors Plastic Toys, back with appropriately-titled new single “Still Alive”.

Electro-rock space-cadets Health soar back into view with “Die Slow”, a simple, beautiful single that’s powered by thumping beats and waves of spacey weirdness.

The second album from Alan Moulder’s latest protégées BM Linx, Black Entertainment somehow straddles electro-rock pop and Krautrock with a mixed results.

BM Linx have found themselves taken under the wing of production legend Alan Moulder; unsurprisingly, “Kids on Fire” is an enormous slice of lush dancy alt-rock.

Angelic vocal harmonies, old-school electronica, rock and rave… and love. Pure Reason Revolution‘s Amor Vincit Omnia has the lot; this is the New Prog.

Stop the press! UK south-coast electro-rock-pop trio SomaHigh deliver their Lo Fat EP… and it’s actually pretty decent!