synthwave
Jorja Chalmers’s second album Midnight Train is a confidently noirish affair that is as much dream pop as dreamscape
Growing out from their kosmische-classicist beginnings, Australia’s Kl(aüs) deliver a braver and broader-reaching second album for Castles in Space
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
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out under the Concrete Islands banner this month and unearths some ancient evidence of previous DJ activity
The ever-enthusiastic Dom Martin explains all on the eclectic and eccentric operations of the pioneering Polytechnic Youth label
To tie-in with his new Dream Division LP for Polytechnic Youth, Tom McDowell delivers a mixtape of deep dark interstellar grooves
Panamint Manse shares rapturous homemade synthpop, moments of nourishing intimacy and a Castles In Space exclusive on this mixtape for Concrete Islands
The synth-based tracks of Jorja Chalmers’s deep-dreaming debut Human Again are a cartography of unreal things that feel very real indeed
After soundtracking John Wyndam’s Day of the Triffids for the Bibliotapes label, Rupert Lally has turned to a David Cronenberg inspired mixtape
The Home Current’s Martin Jensen serves up European electronic dreams with a beautifully crafted mix for Concrete Islands
French label ERR REC have commissioned another volume of library music to spark the imagination on programmes for schools tomorrow and yesterday
Desire make their long-awaited return on Italians Do It Better with a single shot of icy and epic synth pop