Colourmusic – May You Marry Rich

With records like this, pop tribalism doesn’t half seem like an anachronism: Colourmusic are all sleek and shiny, adopting an all-is-welcome approach to influences. They seem to occupy a world in which there are no boundaries between the speaker-rattling bass of dubstep, the cold tension of Suuns and Prince’s sexy-tight electrofunk – just put ‘em in a blender and watch ‘em all smoosh together.

That’s how chest-swellers like Overture come imbued with the wired grooves of The Flaming Lips’ underappreciated opus The Terror, whilst also sounding like Phoenix reading one too many super-bleak William Gibson novels. Later, spaghetti western guitar chords soothe Audacity Of Hope’s nervous jitters, dissolving the electronic clatter and softening the jagged edges of jigsaw pieces that really shouldn’t fit together. The main problem with blurring the colours so softly is that it renders the spectrum obsolete – nothing particularly stands out when the texture is this deceptively one-dimensional. Picking it all apart, however, is plenty of fun. [Will Fitzpatrick]