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Electro Pop


Track: Priest – The Lost Lions (EP)

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Track: Tove Styrke – On the Low, plus album and tour news

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See: Polychrome – Final Kiss Video, plus album and tour news

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Promo image of ISLE band for Faults single

ISLE provide the soundtrack for celebrating our mistakes with euphoric new single ‘Faults’. ISLE are Liam John Rutherford and Ben Singer – a duo based in the Scottish Borders with a DIY ethic that sees them producing their artwork and videos as well as epic, but intimate sounding, electro-pop. ‘Faults’ (out now) has an air …

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Electro outfit Junksista just released their new video for the track ‘Drug’ taken from the upcoming EP Sinner’s Delight out September 23. Junksista, the duo of Diana S and Boog, got people’s attention back in 2013 with their catchy electropop breakout track ‘Life is unfair (and love is a bitch)’ and its accompanying video with …

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Image of mountain - Stillhound album artwork

Stillhound have spent years immersing themselves in their music, and their homeland, to form a sparkling diamond of a debut album. This Edinburgh based trio of Fergus Cook (vocals/guitar), Laurie Corlett-Donald (synths/guitar) and Dave Lloyd (synths) – joined by drummer Cat Myers for this record (also of Honeyblood) – started making music together at high …

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Promo image of Stillhound photographed in a mirror

Stillhound ensure that you make time for their catchy electro-pop with new single ‘Time Enough For Love’. The Edinburgh trio of Fergus Cook, Laurie Corlett-Donald and Dave Lloyd – joined by Cat Myers (also of Honeyblood) on drums – have pooled their various influences and a shared love of their homeland to create their brand of …

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DBFC Autonomic

New from the Anglo-French electro-pop “club” DBFC (“DBFC is not a band, it’s a club” is part of their manifesto), is the video for new single “Autonomic”. Library footage of vintage electronics, sports, and medical instructional videos timed to a driving beat. Think 808 State soundtracking Fantastic Voyage, 2001 and Open University all at the …

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Tove Styrke

Tove Styrke may only be 22 years old but the Swedish electropop sensation has managed to release two albums and a whole heap of singles, tour across Europe and the United States and oh yes, finished third in the 2009 series of Swedish Idol! I chat to her ahead of her slot supporting British electronic …

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We finally have news of the debut Kate Boy album – it’s called ONE and is due to be released in November via Fiction/Island/Iamsound. More good news – they’ve shared new track Midnight Sun and it is electro-pop perfection. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been hooked on stories featuring artificial intelligence recently (Humans, Ex Machina…I …

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Priest (formerly XPriestX) released a brilliant EP, ‘Samurai’ from which we reviewed a couple of singles at Backseat Mafia last year as well as the EP itself. I feel guilty I have missed out on reviewing a few more recent singles that have since been released and that are going to be on their self-titled …

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Race For Space Artwork

The Race for Space is the much anticipated follow up to Public Service Broadcasting’s May 2013 debut ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’, which reached number 21 in the UK Album Chart and garnered rave reviews and award nominations in it’s wake. Public Service Broadcasting are pseudonymous musical duo J. Willgoose, Esq and Wrigglesworth who weave samples from …

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It’s not long since we wrote about the Pyyramids (in fact it’s here) but two things have become apparent since I did. a) they are brilliant, and b) they have released a new track to the public in support of their forthcoming debut album ‘Brightest Darkest Day’, which is released in the UK on the 15th April. It …

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