The Mancunian electronic music pioneers 808 State are about to return
with Transmission Suite, their first new album since 2002.
Recorded in the former nerve centre of the Granada broadcasting empire in
Manchester’s City Centre, some of its tracks are haunted by their home city’s
industrial past - and, for that matter, the influence of classic Detroit techno - but
the whole thing stays true to the band’s career-long focus on what comes next.