synth pop

More of an Ethos: Apostille Interview

Michael Kasparis lifts the lid on his new record as Apostille, explaining his aim to make ecstatic trance music as sung by Meatloaf

The Detox Twins – Dead Horse Ghost (Polytechnic Youth)

Polytechnic Youth’s de facto house-band finally deliver an album-sized release, stuffed to the diodes with synth-pop-noir hits for a parallel-universe

Billy Coté (Madder Rose): Things You (Just) Can’t Let Go Of Mixtape

Having recently brought us the first Madder Rose LP in twenty years, Billy Coté serves-up an equally reflective and deep-sounds-mining mixtape

Tomorrow Syndicate – Citizen Input (Polytechnic Youth)

Tomorrow Syndicate’s Citizen Input is a compact set of expansive, electronically-infused and psychedelically-charged, synthy and shoegazey kosmische cuts

The Golden Filter – Autonomy (4GN3S)

The Golden Filter return with new LP Autonomy, a sparse, purposeful and powerful sonic declaration ready to destroy dancefloors and puncture souls

Patience – Dizzy Spells (Night School)

Patience’s inspired synth pop debut LP depicts gleaming surfaces, yet delivers depth on the dancefloor as it digs at memory and melancholy underneath

Art of the Memory Palace – Dusk at Trellick Tower (Static Caravan)

Andrew Mitchell and Raz Ullah channel The New Brutalism and JG Ballard with an EP of lost-future pop music buried under béton brut

MUNYA – Blue Pine (Luminelle)

The Blue Pine EP is dream pop loaded with Twin Peaks signifiers that floats out of the night without getting weighed down

Antena – Camino Del Sol (Numero Group)

Antena’s mini-album has been faithfully restored from its unsung past, exposing an invigorating mix of synth pop and bossa nova jams to new ears

Panamint Manse: Domestic Hallucinations on Dusty Winds

Panamint Manse talks to Stewart Gardiner about tumultuous empathy, hauntology in the desert and where jubilance meets desolation

Desire – Tears From Heaven (Italians Do It Better)

Desire make their long-awaited return on Italians Do It Better with a single shot of icy and epic synth pop

Flavien Berger – Contre-Temps (Pan European Recording)

French torch songs and slow rave get the synth pop treatment on Berger’s second album