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Hustle and Drone Take Pop in a Dark Direction Via "Stranger" (premiere)

Former Portugal. The Man keyboardist's synthpop band Hustle and Drone look back to the surgical pop of the 1980s to bring the music of the teens one step forward.

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Hot Chip's 'A Bathfull of Ecstasy' Is Music for All Five Senses

Electropop's Hot Chip prove once again with A Bathfull of Ecstasy that they one of the most consistently excellent working bands.

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'Doom Days' Indeed for Bastille

On their third studio record, Doom Days, Bastille continue their slide into mainstream blandness.

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Welcome Center Create Stirring Electropop with "Is This All There Is?" (premiere)

Welcome Center's music is a bright form of electropop/synthpop that sports hooks galore. Hear their new single "Is This All There Is?".

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'Birth of a Nation' Unearths a Trove of Music from the Liverpool Scene

Over three discs and four hours, Cherry Red Records does a deep dive into the output of Liverpool's Inevitable Records, home to Pete Wylie and Pete Burns, among many others.

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Guess Whodunit When the Daybreaks Start Feeling Those "Bad Vibrations" (premiere + interview)

Nashville-based pop band the Daybreaks get into the act of filmmaking as stars of a suspenseful tale with an ending not as black and white as it may seem.

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Turkish Synthpop's Jakuzi Keeps It Gloomy on New Darkwave Album 'Hata Payı'

On Hata Payı, Jakuzi tackles inward shadows: heartbreak, depression, nihilism. It's bleak. It's indulgent. It's good, solid, crowd-pleasing misery, and who doesn't want a hit of that from time to time?

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Various Artists: Electrical Language - British Independent Synth Pop 78-84

This exhaustive, 80-track compilation of lesser-knowns and curios is the synthpop equivalent of an antique mall.

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Newly Independent, JR JR Continue to Make Fun Indie Indie Pop on 'Invocations/Conversations'

JR JR releases the album Warner Bros. wouldn't release, plus they add on a new second record for their first new music in four years.

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Silence My Drum: An Interview with ionnalee

A medical scare forced ionnalee to make what she thought might be her last album, and asked her fans to crowdfund her tour. They funded it in five days, and once home, was inspired to write a whole new album ripe with optimism -- and right when we need it the most.

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Maps' 'Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss' Is an Expansive, Widescreen Record

Maps' Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss is a triumphantly realized album that finds him taking the concept of Pet Sounds, adding the 1960s folk-pop of the Byrds all while channeling the spaced-out rock of 1990s Spiritualized.

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HÆLOS' 'Any Random Kindness' Comes Across As a Love Letter to the Planet and Humanity

Any Random Kindness finds HÆLOS expanding on their core sound while reminding themselves and the listener of just why they are such an exciting and intriguing outfit.

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British Electro Band Guest Singer Release Video for "New Experience" (premiere + interview)

"New Experience" pairs Guest Singer's brand of new wave and intelligent electropop with an arresting typographic video from artist and designer Richard De Hoxar.

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Howard Jones Embraces His Inner Synth Once Again on His New Album 'Transform'

British synthpop great Howard Jones reflects on his music past, present and future in this new interview.

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Brits in Hot Weather #15

This time we have shadowy, soulful house with a UK garage twist in the form of Quiet Man X Joy Anonymous, stuttering funk from Skinny Pelembe, downtempo synthpop from CC Honeymoon, fiery punk 'n' roll from Eyesore & the Jinx, and glam-infused psychedelia from Benedict Benjamin.

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Tor Lundvall Explores His Back Pages

Tor Lundvall, a painter and dark ambient musician, revisits his synthpop past on A Strangeness in Motion: Early Pop Recordings 1989-1999.

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