Synth-Pop
Album Review: PRIDES – A Mind Like The Tide Pt.2
Alt-pop duo Prides, from Glasgow, have just released Part Two of their sophomore album A Mind Like The Tide, concluding the story they began to share with us last Autumn and sharing seven brand new tracks for us to enjoy. The duality in Prides has always been apparent, marrying earnest and emotional lyrics with boisterous …
See: Organised Scum reveal new video for Unborn Cars
In Werner Herzog’s documentary about the internet Lo and Behold: Rivalries of the Connected World, a GoogleX employee makes reference to ‘Unborn Cars’ of the future. This imagery and turn of phrase both bemused Tom Duggins of London three piece Organised Scum, who took it and used it as inspiration for the song which turned …
Track: Pinkshinyultrablast – In the Hanging Gardens (Ice Choir Remix), plus album and tour news
IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PINKSHINYULTRABLAST SHARE ‘IN THE HANGING GARDENS’ REMIX BY ICE CHOIR ALBUM ‘MISERABLE MIRACLES’ RELEASED ON CLUB AC30 MAY 4TH To celebrate exactly 10 years since Russia’s finest export, Pinkshinyultrablast, played their first show at the Money Honey Club in Saint Petersburg, the band have shared a new remix …
Track: Zola Jesus – Bound, plus new album news
Out right now via the Adult Swim Singles Program is a new track from singer, songwriter and record producer Zola Jesus. It’s taken from a new album of previously unheard tracks and remixes titled Okovi: Additions, due out April 6th, which is an experiential interpretation of her 2017 critically acclaimed Okovi album released on Sacred Bones Records. It features …
EP: Woodes – Golden Hour
Woodes is the project of Melbourne based producer, singer and songwriter, Elle Graham and she has just released an EP – ‘Golden Hour’ – which showcases her extraordinary voice and lush, orchestral production. ‘Dots’, the most recent single off the EP, displays a vocal range with more peaks and troughs than the floor of the …
Track: Little Dragon – Sway Daisy
Swedish synth-pop quartet Little Dragon have returned with a brand new song, called Sway Daisy, ahead of a North American tour, and a couple of festival dates over on this side of the pond later on in the year. It comes hot on the heels of last years acclaimed Season High album, and its a …
Album Review: Poliça and s t a r g a z e – Music for the Long Emergency
Released on Transgressive Records, Music for the Long Emergency sees Poliça collaborate with s t a r g a z e, a group of orchestral musicians based in Berlin. First glimpses of these blend of forces was in February 2016 in Berlin during the Liquid Music project hosted by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, linking …
Track: Lo Moon – My Money, plus UK tour dates
In the run up to the release of the self-titled debut album from Los Angeles trio Lo Moon, out on Columbia Records on February 23rd, they’ve released a new track My Money. It’s this smart, atmospheric synth-pop, part-Bastille/Boxed In, but owing more to the likes of Talk Talk. The album has been produced by Chris …
See: Geographer releases new video for Read My Mind
After a series of deaths in the family, Michael Deni left his hometown in New Jersey and ended up in San Francisco. Finding a synthesizer on the street, he bagan turning tragedy in his life into the songs that would shape him as Geographer. Fast forward to the now, he has sold out the legendary …
Track and EP: Sumner – Pictures (Single)/All That I Am
Sumner are a duo from the wild southern-most State of Australia – Tasmania – and they have just released an absorbing single from their new EP “All That I Am”. “Pictures” evokes elements of Lorde with additional head-turning slabs of synth that launch the song into the stratosphere. Atmospheric and haunting yet touched with an …