Blake also saw off competition from 19-year-old chart-topper Jake Bugg, raucous drum'n'bass electronic outfit Disclosure and previous winners Arctic Monkeys.
But slowly the light has begun to dim, through a series of ill-thought-out collaborations, most recently with forgotten Australian electronic outfit the Avalanches.
First there was Rocket Juice & the Moon, formed with Damon Albarn and Tony Allen to play whimsical Afrobeat, and also electronic outfit Atoms For Peace, with Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich.
But perhaps more interestingly the august electronic outfit will be playing it all the way through, for one night only, at London's Royal Festival Hall on 11 October.
In 1967 Derbyshire's work as a member of electronic outfit Unit Delta Plus shared a bill with that of the Beatles at a happening at the Roundhouse in north London.
Then came the rumours that the band was set for a surprise comeback at California's Coachella festival, followed by confirmation that LCD Soundsystem – James Murphy's seminal electronic outfit that have not played live since a farewell show at Madison Square Garden in 2011– will indeed re-form for the event, which will be held over two weekends in April.
His 2012 album, Mars, first put Sinkane on the map, but he'd already been racking up various performance credits with other bands by then: a brief period playing drums for experimental electronic outfit Caribou in 2008; his turn as a bassist and drummer for psych-poppers Of Montreal; and three years spent switching between guitar, drums and keyboard with left-field indie band Yeasayer.
Comprised of members Giorgios Lemos and Ilan Malnouach, the Greek electronic outfit have a truly unique, minimal sound.
Gryffin first became "a fan" of Harnett after one of her guest appearances on tracks by Disclosure, the electronic outfit whose global smash "Latch" helped popularize Sam Smith.
That last one comes from the strange and wonderful mind of Adam Weissman, filmmaker and member of noveau vintage electronic outfit Pollyn.
