Jon Hopkins releases ‘Immunity’, a confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place, a bold statement after the intimate quite Diamond Mine, his Mercury-nominated 2011 collaboration with King Creosote.

Two of the most anticipated records of 2013 are by French purveyors of pop and electronica. Phoenix and Daft Punk serve up some of the year’s best sides of Euro-flavoured pop music. But do either match the hype? Or do they buckle under the weight?

Daft Punk’s massively anticipated new album Random Access Memories is now available to stream in its entirety until release day of May 21. Check out the album here; it’s as brilliant as you expect.

Set to release her fourth solo album, Sleep Fever, on April 1st via the stylish experimental net label Panospria, as well as an onslaught of accompanying music videos, expect Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist prOphecy sun to subvert all expectations.

Kristen Roos, the brilliant Vancouver-based sound artist, is at the margins of musicality, both below music and above it at the same time. His creations are an amalgam of poetics, DIY electronics and technology, blazing brightly with a strange, inescapable light.

Pick a Piper is one of Canada’s most compelling dance-electronica projects. Spearheaded by Caribou’s Brad Weber, who is ably assisted by Angus Fraser and Dan Roberts, among others, their music is a synthesis between, in their words, “the organic and the synthetic”.