Veteran Manchester psych pop/art rock collective The Speed Of Sound return with the new album "Minerva": fourteen new tracks from the Future Retro Modernist pioneers that are just the beginning of a year that will offer, as the title promises, a cornucopia of new material bursting with experimentation and barbed wit, but heavy on hooks and melodic sensibility.

CD 1:
1 West Wind
2 SS-100-X
3 Eight Fourteen Monday
4 The Party Sniper (People Down There)
5 Half Life
6 Mind Palace
7 The Great Acceleration
8 The Harvest
9 Bodysnatchers
10 Trickledown
11 Clickbait
12 Yet Another Tuesday
13 So Faux
14 Question Time

CD 2:
1 Apocalypse Acropolis
2 From The Cradle To The Stars
3 Go For It
4 Underground
5 Rock Paper Scissors
6 X-Y Axis
7 The Same River
8 A Walk By The Sea
9 E to F
10 Apocalypse Metropolis
11 Empathic Reaction
12 Permafrost
13 Monsoon
14 Tranquility Falls

CD 3:
1 Virtual Reality 123
2 Artificial Paradise
3 Jaunt
4 Radio Safe
5 Keep It Quiet
6 The Melancholy Rose
7 No Kicks
8 Replicant
9 Glide On By
10 Charlotte 12â Version