Category: synth-pop

• Live Review: Christine and the Queens – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 25/03/2023

  Mar 27

  Credit: Shirlaine Forrest & BBC christine and the queens presents redcar: a sheer force of illustrious artistry for all. Overview BBC Radio 6 Music Festival celebrates the “cutting edge music of… more ›

• Fever Ray: “Radical Romantics” Album Review – a plunging into the unknown

  Mar 11

  BEST IN NEW MUSIC A shape-shifting electronic pop trope of icy atmosphere bent out of shape from Karin Dreijer – a wanderer lusting for unrequited love. Listen to Fever Ray… more ›

• The Angles – “The Angles” album review – NYC collective bring glow to contemplative power-pop

  Mar 9

  You’d be surprised to know that Brooklyn-based jangly-pop outfit of The Angles is just solely written by one man. That man goes by the name Ashwin Prasanna, who has quite… more ›

• Caroline Polachek: “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” album review – Welcome to Caroline’s Island..

  Feb 17

  This week, sees the return of Caroline Polachek. A space-pop odyssey of unchecked mirages and a pining for those we lost. Less so a pining, mind and but a desire.… more ›

• Billy Nomates: “CACTI” album review – surviving it all with weird organs and upright pianos

  Jan 15

  A dark cloud hangs over Nomates’ new CACTI as her introspective thoughts seep out onto a lurid colour of distaste and melancholic swagger. A character once-manifested Billy Nomates (real name… more ›