Why Nineties Trip-Hop Keeps Coming Back on True True Self by Transformuse
Ayam’s Vocal Line and ChrisTala’s Beat Turn an Old Bristol Template Into Ecstatic Dance True True Self was written, arranged and mixed in the countryside... Read More
Electronic Pop
Shimmering Synths Over a Sleeping House, and How to Hear Them in Junifer’s Thoughts for the Night
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A Chico Folktronica Artist Turns Sleeping Children and Kitchen Whispers Into Alt-Pop Thoughts for the Night opens on a wash of ambient synths, soaked in... Read More
The Bitwig Studio Sound and Where It Went on Love 2 Love You by Pearl Project
A Dutch Producer’s Bitwig Home Studio and a Piano Bridge Shape a Slow-Building Alt-Pop Single According to the project’s own website, the Pearl Project studio... Read More
Why Rafael Montecruz Keeps Coming Back to Tell Me Why (Remix)
A Year After the Ballad, His First English Song Returns as Electro-Pop with Abraham Armell Synth pads and a light programmed rhythm open Tell Me... Read More
Sugar Relics Put Can’t Stay Awake Back in Play on Caught in the Middle
A 2022 Dark Electro-Pop Single, Returned to Service on a 2026 Album The synth line on Can’t Stay Awake arrives before anything else does. It... Read More
Estasi E Veleno Runs on a Programmed Pulse and Giuseppe Cucè Knows Where to Take It
How Two Players and One Sicilian Studio Turned a Cantautore Lyric Into Dance Pop Start with the credit list. It explains the record. On Estasi... Read More
Purity Ring Cut Lemonlime From an Album and Used It to Launch a Tour
The Korg M1 is the best-selling digital synthesiser ever built, a 1988 workstation whose factory piano and organ presets are stamped across three decades of... Read More
Allie X Called Off a Tour Months Early to Protect Her Health
Allie X performing at Electric Brixton, London. Most tour cancellations arrive late. A run is already underway, a date is a fortnight out, and the... Read More
Robyn Waited Eight Years and Came Back With Twenty-Nine Minutes
Eight years passed between Robyn’s last album and this one. The new one is twenty-nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds long. Sexistential came out on 27... Read More
Carly Rae Jepsen Split Her New Album Into Twelve Days and Twelve Nights
Most pop albums pick a mood. Carly Rae Jepsen has made one album with two, and split them down the middle. Day and Night arrives... Read More
Four Versions of One Hook on What I Should See by Peter Agyagos, and How to Hear It 
The Suno Sound and Where It Went on To Pa Dentro, a Latin Pop Ode to the Buffet 
The Hook That Comes Back Three Times on twirl by honni, and How to Hear It 
The 80s Drum-Machine Sound and Where It Went on Feels Like Heaven by MΛDLY