Synth-Pop
Track: Yip Deceiver – Red Line, plus UK tour dates
Yip Deceiver revel in some funky synth-pop with their new single Red Line. The Georgia-based “two man boy band” have a new EP titled YPD coming out on 6 November (via New West Records) and this is the lead single, which “mutates Davey and Dobby from an indie-dance duo into rock ‘n’ roll aliens. Embracing …
Album Review: Chvrches – Every Open Eye
If I were to introduce you to my sister I’d probably say: “She hates loud noises, dark spaces, and people.” She’s not a fan of music and her opinions of the medium range from complete indifference to downright cynicism. It’s a surprise to anyone when she finds a band she likes – she’s only bought …
Track: Iman – Golden
If you like your electro pop a little more in your face than the recent penchant for syrupy, hazy sounding tracks, likelihood is you’ll go for Golden, the debut track from British born African/ Middle Eastern pop artist Iman. It’s all about these big 80s sounding synth riffs and 90s sounding beats, like sitting shoulder …
Album Review: Black-Paw Society – People Doesn’t Care/1955
The album ‘People Doesn’t Care/1955 ‘ may not be as creepily odd as the cover would have you think, but it most definitely has its quirks. More importantly, it is a highly accomplished work of modern pop – one, in fact, that makes you wonder how so many other artists get it wrong. For one …
Track: All Kings And Queens – Voodoo
Siblings Joseph and Gabriella (no more information given) make the sort of icy synth pop that is impossible to ignore, demonstrated by their new track, Voodoo. Mixed by Heiko, who has worked with the likes of HAIM in the past, the track bubbles away with layers of synths, this funk filled bassline and little guitar …
Track: Kubalove – This Foolish Love
Kubalove, aka Anna Jackson, is back with a a new slice of luscious synth pop in the foe of ‘This Foolish Love’. Having had an immediate impact with last years singles ‘Dangerous’ and ‘All I want’, it’s the first new material since entering the studio and drops on October 16th. Sitting somewhere slightly leftfield and …
See: Lionlimb release new video for Turnstile
Out on the 18th September via Bayonet Records comes the new single from Lionlimb – aka Angel Olsen collaborators Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger. It comes hot on the heels of a recent tour with Whitney and playing at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn with Frankie Cosmos. It’s full of trippy drums and winding synth lines, …
See: Prides – Little Danger
If McFly can run a petrol station then Prides can cope with a diner, right? Wrong. I don’t know who’s idea it was to give bands a secondary occupation but it seems to be a hazard more than anything. Stick to the music, fellas. The Glasgow-based trio have just unveiled a brand new music video to ‘Little …
Track: Sea Moya – Slow Down
German three piece Sea Moya follow up their highly regarded debut song ‘Do things’ with ‘Slow Down’. Describing their vision of the song, saying “We had wide and open field pictures in our heads, like when you stand in Nepal in the Himalayas and look at huge snowy mountains with nice valleys in between and …
See: I am Lono release video for Only Love
Nottingham avant electro dup I am Lono, aka Matthew Cooper and David Startin have a new six-track self-titled EP out on white vinyl and download on 22nd August through Louder City Records. Named after the moment in Hunter S Thompsons book, The Curse of Lono, where Thompson captures a huge Marlin and beats it to …