The 80s Drum-Machine Sound and Where It Went on Feels Like Heaven by MΛDLY
A 2018 Dream Pop Single Built From Programmed Drums, Synth Pads and a Floating Vocal A drum machine drives Feels Like Heaven, while lush synth... Read More
Electropop
Charli XCX Brought a Different Surprise Guest to Each ACL Weekend
The first chord of Charli XCX’s headline set at Austin City Limits did not come from a synth. It came from a wall of guitar.... Read More
Why the Mid-2000s Pop Synth Keeps Coming Back on Rebel by Dana Rexx
A Distorted Synth Patch, a Chanted Hook and a Dubstep Drop Built for Outsiders The first thing Rebel by Dana Rexx puts in front of... Read More
Dobi Dobi: Alterkix Puts a Robot Voice on Analog Synths, and How to Hear It
A Belgian Bass Player Turned Analog Synth Artist Packs a Robotic Hook Into 108 Seconds A Korg Monologue started all of this. Sabine Vermeylen, a... 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
The Retro Synth Sound and Where 90s Double Vision Takes It
An Irish Vocalist and a Brazilian Composer Build a Nocturnal Pop Record Across Two Continents The hook on 90s Double Vision arrives on a synth... Read More
Empire of the Sun Follow a 220,000-Ticket Tour With 31 More Shows
Two hundred and twenty thousand people bought a ticket to the last one. That is the figure sitting underneath the Ask That God: Afterlife tour,... 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
Melanie Martinez HADES Is Only Half the Album
Melanie Martinez performing at Mercy Lounge, 2015. Eighteen tracks, just over seventy minutes, and a closing song called “THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH.” For... 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