Synth-Pop
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 …
Track: Æ Mak – Glow
Æ MAK are a dreamy electro pop group from Ireland whose new single, ‘Glow’, is an enigmatic, haunting number. Singer Aoife McCann’s distinctive and evocative voice floats above bubbling sparse musical bedrock at the start which evolves into a darker, rumbling synth base: It’s a lush piece of aural stimulation that massages the mind. Æ …
Track: Isador – Jungle
Uniquely combining a sneering indie rock attitude and dance floor electronica, the new single from US artist Isador (the solo work of Warren Heller) is a sonic rush. Heller says “I wrote ‘Jungle’ when I was living with my parents in New Jersey, I had just been signed to a record deal and was traveling …
See: We are Scientists reveal new video for One In, One Out, plus UK tour dates
Back with their sixth album, New York power pop duo We Are Scientists have released a new video for single One In One Out, and announced a whole run of Uk tour dates. Synth lines immediately mix things up with the bands sound, but its not long before the guitars start to permeate the sound, …
See: Croatia reveal new video for Make Circles
Victoria three piece Croatia have a new vocalist and a new EP, titled Half Dreams on the way. The synth-pop three piece take heavy influence from 80’s era pop and electronic groups, and it shows (in a good way) with the first track to be released from the EP, Make Circles. Its full of popping …
Track: Let’s Eat Grandma – Hot Pink
Let’s Eat Grandma, aka teenage vocalists, multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth have returned with a new single – Hot Pink, out now via Transgressive Records / [PIAS]. Talking of the single the girls say “Hot Pink is about the misconceptions of femininity and masculinity and the power of embracing both of them. …
Track: Datarock – Laugh in the face of Darkness
The long awaited return of Norwegian synth act Datarock is gathering pace. Ahead of their first album in nine years – Face the Brutality, out on March 9th on YAP Records, the band have announced a second single ‘Laugh in the face of darkness’, following on from Ruffle Shuffle, which dropped at the end of …
Track: Vowws – Esseff
“‘Esseff’ is like James Bond spy music updated for the modern world”, say LA-via-Australian based duo Vowws. “We wanted to create a sound that felt like you were being chased by something scary, but enticing”. The single is from their forthcoming album Under the World, out on February 3rd on Anti-Language Records. It lives up …
See: Témé Tan releases new video for Menteur
Multi-instrumentalist and producer Tanguy Haesovoets, better known as Témé Tan, has revealed a new video for the track Menteur, the latest track to be taken from his self-titled debut albu, which dropped last October on [PIAS] Recordings. Its a dacefloor ready slice of synth-pop, as Tan gets his funk on, mixing up pure pop with …