Songs on Perpetuum Mobile use tapped pipes and air compressors, but the long droning notes of background for a foreground of noise have given way to more prominent melodies and notes on keyboard and strings.

For their third album Filter has decided to flex their muscle to be in sync with today's trends. As a result, The Amalgamut is an untidy and hardly homogeneous effort that cruelly lacks spontaneity while the melodious songs are drowned in an indigestible racket.

A far cry from being a total change of hats, Title of Record this time varies the pleasures, alternating their classic explosions of rage with melodious mid-tempo ballads with almost acoustic tones.

Front 242 showcases their experimental side in a long-awaited full-length studio album, but it's the EP released simultaneously that's worth your money.

A decade after their hit "So Alive", Love & Rockets are back in force with a new sound, a hybrid of Daniel Ash's sparse songwriting and of techno turbulences .

Though The Mission reached the summit of their art with Carved in Sand in 1990, the band had since sunk into oblivion, after a fistful of uninspired albums and the successive departures of its original members. Returning to the sources of their gothic and lyrical rock, with Aura Wayne Hussey signals a long-awaited comeback album.