Synth-Pop
Track: Ideomotor – Away from here (ILARI remix)
There’s a distinct Finnish flavour to ‘Away from here’, the new track from Ideomotor. The pair, Erkka Wennonen and Kimmo Myllviita, hail from Helsinki and have been mixing up the intoxicating mix of pop, indie and synth/electro since 2014. They in turn have allowed fellow countryman, producer and one half of White Balance, ILARI, to …
See: Prinze George release new video for “Victor”
Maryland based indie/synth pop heroes Prinze George have just released some new visuals for their highly regarded single, Victor, taken from their self-titled EP, released last year. The trio, Kenny Grimm (production/instrumental), Naomi Almquist (vocals) and Isabelle De Leon (drums) make the sort of music that bubbles and scatters in front of you. They’ve upped …
Live review: Rosie Lowe at Headrow House
Sometimes you turn up a small venue like the intimate upstairs space in hipster mecca Headrow House and leave thinking that’s the last time you’ll see the headline act this up close and personal. Rosie Lowe is one of those performers out plugging her debut album Control, but she has the full package – a …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: TEEN – Tokyo
Ahead of the release of their third album, Love Yes, out on Carpark Records on February 19th, TEEN evoke the spirit of The Human League, drag it into 2016, and sprinkle it with ideas of sexuality and spirituality with a new single, Tokyo. Described lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson as being about “ a …
Track: Wild Nothing – Reichpop
“I desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me,” says Jack Tatum, aka Wild Nothing, of his forthcoming third album, Life of Pause. “I’m terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre. And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that …
Track: Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
It might have taken a while, five years to be exact, but London trio Three Trapped Tigers are back with a follow up to their debut album ‘Route one or die’. Titled ‘Silent Earthling’, the bands new album is due out on April 1st via Superball Music. Talking of the bands evolution, guitarist/keyboard player Matt …
Album Review : NZCA Lines : Infinite Summer
It is the far future, a dying sun pushes the planet ever closer to extinction. In the mega-city of Cairo-Athens, earth embraces the coming destruction with a non-stop party in the ever-increasing warmth. It’s not a new Young Adult sci-fi trilogy, it’s the concept behind the Infinite Summer album, from NZCA Lines. Opening with a …
Track: Wildhart – Fantasy
It’s been a bit of a wait for those people who loved Gothenburg trio Wildhart’s debut single ‘Stuck in a Second’, release petty much exactly a year ago. But now their back with a refined sound (one that’s been soaked in fellow countrymen Niki & the Dove and Little Dragon and a new single Fantasy, …
Track: Greg Hvnsen – What would you have me do
West Palm Beach’s Greg Hvnsen shares some of the undoubted sun with, well, just about everybody with his new track ‘What would you have me do’. Despite his slightly melancholic vocal, it trips along, sweetened by some rather lovely vocal harmonies as he asks What would you have me do?/Where would you have me go? …