Synth-Pop
See: Other Nature release video for Walking A Wall
Other Nature, multi-instrumentalist and producer Sena Verdi aka Lyonheart, and singer/writer Tariq Khan. Neither are strangers to the music scene – Verdi releasing music with the likes of BT, Paul Oakenfield and Chicane as well as writing and producing for Sheffield post-punks RALE while Khan, as well as being Bat for Lashes’ brother, turned out …
Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up singles, off the EP ‘Singles’ further enhanced my love of the band. Smooth clean jangly psych pop with the most elegant harmonies and the indelible. …
New Tracks: Barrie – Clovers/Darjeeling plus album and tour news
Barrie produced, for me, one of the stand out singles of 2018, Tal Uno – a perfect slice of pop heaven from the EP ‘Singles’. They have now announced a much anticipated album – ‘Happy to be Here’ due for release on 3 May 2019 as well as a tour that will take them across …
Track: San Mei – Heaven
Following up on her debut single “Wonder” earlier this year, Emily Hamilton, working under the name San Mei, has just released a fitting follow-up in “Heaven”. This is a somewhat more poppy and less abrasive San Mei, yet it still has a spine of fuzz and understated distortion below the surface of synths. “Heaven” is …
Album Review: Battery Operated Orchestra – Snare
Battery Operated Orchestra might hail from Brighton but, in a previous incarnation as Katsen, they emerged on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. Which seemed very appropriate even then given the quality of their Kraftwerk-inspired synthpop, which would never have been out of place in the Steel City at any time over the last 30-odd years. Now …
New Music : Listen to Maj Monet’s “Run Maj Monet!”
Swedish synth pop band Maj Monet have unleashed a brand new track called “Run Maj Monet!” and it’s a slickly-produced slice of synth pop heaven. In the vein of Electric Youth, Pawws, and anything bright, shiny, and from the 80s comes this exhilarating shot of a neon jam. For me, Maj Monet captures summer drives, …
Track: Everything by Electricity – Place to Call My Own
The gorgeous, thick-layered textures of Everything by Electricity‘s new single ‘Place To Call My Own’ is synth pop at its most alluring: a steady pulse, a superglue-melody and an addictive, bitter-sweet taste. While recalling bands such as New Order and M83, the song has an unconventional arrangement that catches you off guard: a percussive beginning …
Track: Carw – Lanterns
Forged where land meets estuary waters and the city screams just a stone’s throw from nature, plugged-in Cardiff-based singer-songwriter Carw foretells the majesty of his summer debut album with the single, LANTERNS, released on BLINC Records on Friday 25 May 2018. Carw, Welsh for ‘deer’, opens the door on a determinedly focused, self-initiated and largely …
Track: SDH – The Scent
SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. After their debut digital EP ‘Tell Them’ they have released this full length follow up Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a …
Track: Holy Boy – Elergy
Norwegian artist Helene Alexandra Jæger, trading under the Holy Boy Moniker, is releasing a new single ‘Elergy’, out via Native Habitat recordings, ahead of her debut album expected later in the year. It’s an ode to Los Angeles, where she now resides, saying “Coming from Bergen, Norway, I’d never seen a city like LA before. …