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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 forthcoming album ‘Blame it All On Love’ which drops on October 20th via Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records. Talking about the track, Ben Browning says …
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 …
See: Logan Lynn captures the high beauty and strength of simple togetherness with ‘Here’s To Us’
LOGAN LYNN, Portland, Oregon’s so-much-loved songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and activist, who – casting your mind back to the far-off days of high summer here, took Gossip’s “Standing In The Way Of Control” out for a delicious and valedictory spin into the cosmos in the company of Bitch, has today revealed a heart’s arrow-sweet new single, …
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 …
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 …
See: LIP TALK – ‘More’: our craving, craven world captured in psychedelic synth pop
SARAH K PEDINOTTI is the living, breathing Brooklyn-based human behind the glam-psych-pop stylings of LIP TALK, who’s just dropped the video for the glitteringly trippy “More” – and we’ve got it here for you. “More” concerns just that; the craving, the craven, the wish to hold and consume; be more excited, more satiated, love more …
News: Erasure to release ‘The Neon Remixed’ to end July – watch the lyric video for a new track, ‘Secrets’; British and European dates announced for the autumn
STRIDING across the synthpop world for 36 years now in a career absolutely without parallel, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell are back with a remixes take on last year’s album, The Neon; and they’ve also announced a string of dates across the UK and Europe for the autumn. Double whammy! The Neon Remixed collects together …
Track: Kalbells – ‘Diagram Of Me Sleeping’: languid synth’n’sax pop to wrap up in the covers to
YOU WANT dreaminess? Kalbells, the collaborative synthpop-cum-artpop project of Kalmia Traver, Angelica Bess, Sarah Pedinotti, and Zoë Brecher, has just dropped a dear little nugget of Eighties-inflected pillowtalk bliss, “Diagram Of Me Sleeping”; yet another reason to get yourself booked aboard the first flight out on their album Max Heart, which is coming out on …
See: The video for Telex’s ‘Dear Prudence’: Beatles cover unearthed for the forthcoming Mute compilation
BELGIAN synth visionaries-cum-pranksters Telex have dropped a video for their previously unreleased, recently discovered take on “Dear Prudence” – you can watch it below. Their take – treated with just a little more harmonic reverence than their British charting, brilliantly robotic “Rock Around The Clock” – came to light when surviving members Dan Lacksman and …