Synthpop
Track: Senior Citizen x Tim Walker share the electro ode ‘The Foreign’
FREDRICTON, New Brunswick musician Bob Deveau, who you’ll find jaunting out and about in synthy surroundings as Senior Citizen away from the drum stool he usually occupies with bands like The Olympic Symphonium, Grand Theft Bus and Force Fields, is primed to release an album with sometime bandmate Tim Walker at the beginning of next month for …
See: Bitch stands up to be counted on the technicolour torch song, ‘Easy Target’
QUEER icon Bitch doesn’t ever take fools lightly, and you should so know and respect that, even if she has a way with couching that message in technicolour synth melodies to die for. We cool with that? Let’s move on. Here’s the joyous thing: her next album, the 11-track trip into Bitchcraft, sees her launching …
Track: London’s St Jasper offers the morning mournfulness of ‘Dial Tone’- he’s a burgeoning synth talent
JAMIE JOHNSON is only two singles into his career as St Jasper, and that’s if we include “Dial Tone”, the song he’s unveiling today – but my, hasn’t he got maturity and talent in a full flush? This new track is so considered; spacious, atmospheric, spectral. It has a gravitas you wouldn’t immediately associate with …
Track: Wrap yourself up warm this autumn with the regal indie-synthpop of Endearments’ ‘Empress’
THE LEAVES are coming down in droves now, so wrapping y’self up against the incipient chill with the Anglophile dreampop stylings of Brooklyn’s Endearments is our self-care tip to keep the darkening year at bay. With an EP, Father Of Wands, due on November 5th, and which four-tracker is happily hunting out next to Brotherhood-era …
Track: Xeno + Oaklander drop new single and video for “Infinite Sadness” – New album ‘Vi/deo’ out 22 October via Dais Records
New York dark wave duo Xeno & Oaklander have announced their impending full-length release, Vi/deo, due out on 22 October via Dais Records. The album promises to further distil the group’s iconic noir synth-pop and is inspired by ideas of synaesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies. Duo Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride conceived the …
SEE: LIP TALK glories in the angelic modular flight of ‘Solar Return’ – psychedelic synthpop as it always should be
FLYING high, flying free, with an absolutely gorgeous line in glittery, psychedelic synthpop, LIP TALK – the musical avatar of New Yorker Sarah K Pedinotti – has returned to the melodic modular breach once more with the absolutely lush “Solar Return”, gloried with her mellifluous tones, breathy, bell-clear, more than a little Liz Fraser in …
Track: Lizzie Loveless captures the moment when the rift becomes all too real in ‘Window’; her autumn album’s now up for pre-order
BROOKLYN’s three-sister indie rock band TEEN were much loved by those in the know, and rightfully so, with slow-burn, atmospheric altpop numbers such as “Raggedy Andy” to offer the world. It was with sadness that that same cognoscenti received the news that sisters Lizzie, Katherine and Kristina Lieberson were calling it a day after two …
See: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’
SARAH K. PEDINOTTI, the Brooklyn experimental popster who guises as LIP TALK, and who we last saw see-sawing twixt sin and virtue on the psychedelic synthpop of “More”, has dropped another single flirting with the concepts of the vices, the thrumming dayglo silk of “Bargain Day”, coming at pop askew with a little ESG and …
News: Fused releases the four-track ‘Passion and Control Remixes’
HOT ON the heels of Fusion’s The Exhibition EP comes the second in a planned trilogy, the Passion And Control Remixes, out on Fusion Records today, June 4th. The recently released, initial four-track The Exhibition EP is a gateway into the electro-pop world of Fused, the award-winning UK electronic music artist, remixer and producer, which takes …
Premiere: Alex Fasso drops ‘Northside’: watching Melbourne goings-on in lo-fi quietude
BASED these days in Melbourne, born and raised over in Hong Kong, Alex Fasso has been quietly migrating his seductive and blissful tunesmithery away from the brittle acoustic introspection of his earlier work – check the lockdown lovely “Happy 4 U”, for instance, committed to tape during that first, weird, weird period when we all …