synthpop track Archives - Backseat Mafia

Track: Poolside reveal new single, ‘Ride With You’ featuring Ben Browning; watch video here

LA based producer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradiseis, aka Poolside, has returned with a new single ‘Ride With You’, featuring Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning. It’s taken from the…

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Track: Drew Smith – ‘Whose News’ feat. Isla Craig: the Toronto scene brings us another gem of blissful, ambient synthpop-triphop

BESIDES his other bow-strings playing in Toronto power-poppers Bunny and the heart-hookin’ bubblegum fun of The Bicycles, Toronto’s Drew Smith also fashions a lovely ambient synthpop under his birth name:…

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Track: Sugarstone twist the rave into a darkwave nightmare before Christmas on ‘Pink Duct Tape’

MANCUNIAN new wave ravers Sugarstone have tucked away the dayglo, hands-in-the-air synth thang just for now as they embrace the aesthetics of the darkest month; and with the winter solstice…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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See: LARRY THE PINK THE HUMAN drop a video for the wistful skitter of ‘NO WRONG NO RIGHT’ and announce a brace of UK dates

THE self-styled and fully capitalised music, art and video project LARRY PINK THE HUMAN have dropped a new single ahead of a brace of upcoming live dates. “No Wrong No…

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See: Dave Keuning – ‘Time And Fury’: an alt.synth floor-filler for your personal boogie nirvana

THE KILLERS’ founding member and guitarist Dave Keuning has released another taster of his June solo album, A Mild Case Of Everything, with the video for the anthemically synthy “Time…

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Track: Lizzie Loveless – ‘Loveless’: former TEEN sister embraces a cleaner, dreamy synthpop aesthetic

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.…

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See: Sugarstone – ‘Angel Boy’: Mancunian new wave of new ravers break out the synth colours

Y’KNOW one thing that’s missing from our lives – I know, I know, a zillion things, right, but: technicolour. Really eye-poppingly bright colour, cerise and sunset yellow and tangerine and…

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