Synth-Pop

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Sand Circles :: Motor City / Motor City Remixes (Posh Isolation)

Reviews 05/14/2016 by Alan Lockett

Overall, a midnight feast of pad wash and beat clunk indulgence with enough wow, flutter and tape hiss to make an old ’80s Dolby-hater happy. Sand […]

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Visonia / Synth Alien :: Opal’s Sunflowers / Memories (Last Known Trajectory)

Reviews 03/15/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

The disco currents of past releases have been sidelined, a more mature and developed sound taking its place. In a strange coincidence, the latest two […]

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Choir Of Young Believers :: Grasque (Ghostly International)

Reviews 02/27/2016 by James Knapman

One thing Grasque most definitely isn’t is immediate, but it’s so deliciously different, referential and fresh that it rewards repeated listens in spades. I’ll wager […]

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Luke Eargoggle / Kan3da / Weltwirtschaft :: Karl EP (Lunatic)

Reviews 01/10/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

The 12” is electro of the frostier faction but there are moments of warmth coming through to thaw the chill. Dark and bitter sounds from […]

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V/A :: The Underground Wave 7″s (Walhalla)

Reviews 11/25/2015 by Robbie Geoghegan

A varied beast. Tracks slide from style to style with little fixity of genre, but that’s what those early innovators were all about. There was […]

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Thirteen, unlucky for some; not for Kernkrach.

Reviews 11/08/2015 by Robbie Geoghegan

I find it hard to come at Kernkrach from a critical angle. For thirteen years they have been pioneering synthesizer music. The German label has […]

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The Silicon Scientist :: Outside the Night (Anna Logue)

Reviews 11/07/2015 by James Knapman

Anna Logue released one of the year’s best synth-pop albums in 2014 with Twins Natalia’s spellbinding The Destiny Room and with the late 2015 release […]

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Wall $treet :: Trading for Love (Mysidian)

Reviews 10/17/2015 by Robbie Geoghegan

Drum programs are more intricate, melodies flutter into unexplored flights of fancy without floating off into wilderness. The music of Nico Nightingale is progressing quite […]

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