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Synthpop

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

  • December 17, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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’

  • December 17, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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’

  • November 14, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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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See: Bitch stands up to be counted on the technicolour torch song, ‘Easy Target’

  • November 11, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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…
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Track: London’s St Jasper offers the morning mournfulness of ‘Dial Tone’- he’s a burgeoning synth talent

  • November 8, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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…
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Track: Wrap yourself up warm this autumn with the regal indie-synthpop of Endearments’ ‘Empress’

  • October 26, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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: Xeno + Oaklander drop new single and video for “Infinite Sadness” – New album ‘Vi/deo’ out 22 October via Dais Records

  • July 22, 2021
  • Tania Ogier
New York dark wave duo Xeno & Oaklander have announced their impending full-length release, Vi/deo, due out on 22 October via Dais Records. The album promises to further distil the…
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SEE: LIP TALK glories in the angelic modular flight of ‘Solar Return’ – psychedelic synthpop as it always should be

  • July 3, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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…
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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

  • June 22, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’

  • June 12, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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…
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