FADER
QUARTZ
BLANC CHECK
★★★★
Fader’s musical mastermind Benge says his third album with Blancmange’s Neil Arthur is infused with 80s and 90s incidental TV music, but it’s sometimes so bleak one can’t help wondering whether Threads featured in his viewing. The paranoid Olympia’s one of its more cheerful tracks, and the quietly industrial Manila provides a rare chink of light, while Prussian’s starry nights manage a grim beauty. Elsewhere,