Someone recommend me some albums that sound similar to...

The MFA "The Difference It Makes" single

80's pop/New Order-ish bass melodies, industrial-ish sampled & distorted guitars, vocals... contains 'songs', accessible, yet also highly electronic/techno.

Also definitely a Björk/LFO/Homogenic influence in there.

Ellen Allien - Berlinette

Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector

Pop songs played through glitchtronics.

m83 - before the dawn heals us

it has more than a touch of rock. but it's awesome.

oh god, I don't want to resurrect memories of that other MoM clusterfuck thread... but .. hmmm.

xpost - I might have liked Radical Connector more if Berlinette hadn't made MoM's pop + glitchtronics feel utterly cack-handed, amateurish & empty by comparison. And I love MoM! But think it was a really backwards step from Mouse on Mars - Idiology meself.

Earwig! i quite like them and am not (too much) ashamed to admit i found them through the allmusic "similar artists" feature. also chapterhouse, uncool as they are/were. and mimi (i think she sang on that moby song "when it's cold..."?), whose only album (so far), "soak," is just one of the best things i've ever heard, after taking into account the deeply sentimental attachment i have to it. it's wonderful, and so is the band she was in, hugo largo. and pram. okay i'm done.

Seelenluft are a lot of fun, you might dig 'em. The Way We Go was one of my 2004 highlights.

Try Colder, his new album Heat, or last year's Again. Good stuff.

I'm not a big fan of theirs, but you might like Lamb: it's drum'n'bass/trip-hoppy stuff with female vocals. Anyway, it's better than most trip-hop, since the beats are less blunted and more innovative. On the Ladytron tip, Deep Cuts by The Knife is highly recommendable - it's roughly in the same genre, but less stylish and detached and more energetic. The K & D Sessions by Kruder and Dorfmeister is the ultimate mix album for indie kids, I think - great for puffing weed, since it's deep and jazzy and dubby. If you want something with more stomp in it, I could recommend Eat Static's Crash and Burn - it's big beat sort of sound may be a bit dated, but it's still quite a manic and fun effort.

Oh, and Mouse on Mars' best LP is definitely Autoditacker - they've gone downhill ever since, though the albums that followed it are still mostly good. It has nothing to do with rock, but I've found that most rock fans can still dig MoM, so perhaps you can give it a try.

blu mar ten - six million names of god
telefon tel aviv - map of what is effortless
out hud - let us never speak of it again

three incredibly underrated albums. for me, the blu mar ten album is definitely one of the best to come out in the past five years. former atmospheric d&b producers turn to incredibly smooth electronic music. and when i say "smooth", i don't mean elevator music. i mean "god damn these fuckers are on top of their fucking game" smooth. telefon tel aviv is more glitchy but very accesible, and out hud is along the lines of LCD soundsystem and !!! (with whom they share members)- hard and funky, but still definitely electronic.

lali puna - scary world theory

Ack! I was coming over to ILM to start a thread along similar lines. How convenient there already is one. I've got a similar request:

I can't even think of anything to buy at the moment. Maybe I would start a thread on ILM, but I'm scared of it these days. I want psychedelic girly electronica but it doesn't really seem to exist. Like the new Goldfrapp album, but moreso. Like the last Medicine album. A bit like Kevin Bletchdom, maybe, but more psychedelic and textural.

Ladytron aren't really psychedelic enough, Mum are a bit too ambient. What I really want is something like the baroque electronic psychedelia of the last Medicine album or Manitoba or something, crossed with the spooky atmosphere of the new Goldfrapp album. Female singers preferred, or male if they can do intense harmonies.

Does this exist, or will I have to write it myself?

I liked the last Colleen album, too, but something maybe less random and more strucured and pop.