Legendary Synth Artist Nao Katafuchi Channels Impermanence and Uncertainty in “Keita Ashita”
Multi-instrumentalist and synth wizard Nao Katafuchi has been a staple of the underground minimal synth resurgence of the early 2000s. Born and raised in the suburbs of Tokyo, Katafuchi relocated…
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“Is it Lust That’s Holding the Line?” — Dutch New Wavers Pol Return With “Sex Machines”
Hot gun, our promise bleeds You would never stop looking for me Have we left it all behind? Is it lust that’s holding the line? Following a single launch show…
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New Order to Tour Without Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert “For the Foreseeable Future” Due to “Personal Health Reasons”
New Order have announced that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be touring with the band “for the foreseeable future” due to personal health reasons. The band shared the…
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Seattle’s Bunadox Steps Back into the Light With Existential Dark Synth Single “The Prism”
does a vision lend its wisdom in the light held by the prism Bunadox returns from a quiet stretch with The Prism, a track that treats ambition as a condition…
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Boy Harsher Returns in Video for Latex Line-Dancing New-Wave Fever Dream “Jeans”
Boy Harsher returns with “Jeans,” their first new original song under the Boy Harsher banner since the cinematic 2022 stretch that brought The Runner and “Burn It Down” from the…
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DC Dark Synthpop Duo 2DCAT Take a Sledgehammer to Grief in Video for Lynchian Blue Rose Edit of “Frames”
I can’t hear that he’s calling my name The sound is drowned out in the rain Shots ring out in the night Some moments refuse to remain in the past.…
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Kansas City Quartet RxGhost Push Misplaced Fear, Hate, and Blame Off the Platform on New Single “Subway”
Fear is easiest to manufacture at a distance, when cities are understood through alarmist headlines and political talking points rather than lived experience. Public transit becomes evidence of social collapse,…
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“Black Stars are Shining” — Hamburg’s GIANT CROW Launches Skyward With Post-Rock Ballad “Home”
Black stars are shining from the deep I hide from But this road may carry me home Some songs begin with a map in their pocket and spend their running…
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Athens Synthpunks Dramachine Fall Under the Spell of the Red Shoes in Video for “Choros tou Thanatou” (Dance of Death)
You tie the red shoes to rhythms you do not choose You dance, you dance to rhythms you do not choose Athens synth-punk outfit Dramachine takes Hans Christian Andersen’s The…
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Between Hope and Despair — DRIFT. Announce “Violence For Your Furs” With Video for Sordid Synthpunk Track “Rough Rider”
Imaginary not real In a world that has fallen from grace And in the park, the rush begins to make its way down Down, down he goes After more than…
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