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
Synth Pop
Fascination by Lakeside X: The Eighties Synth Sound and Where It Went
A Prague Synth-Pop Single Travels Through a Remix, a Harmonium Mix and Three Live Takes Fascination by Lakeside X is the sound of a comeback.... Read More
The Two-Voice Weave on Hidden People by Musspell, and How to Hear It
Cluj-Napoca’s Musspell Turn Nordic Folklore Into Dark Synth Pop with Producer Steve Dub Steve Dub produced and mastered Hidden People by Musspell. The Grammy-winning engineer’s... Read More
Why the Chillwave Era Keeps Coming Back on Dreams of Yesterday by Formoe
Formoe, Producer Alf Emil Eik and Singer June Baltzersen Turn Memory Into Slow Synth-Pop Dreams of Yesterday takes its production from the chillwave playbook: atmospheric... Read More
The Coldwave Synth Sound and Where It Went on the STRIDULUM Album Paradigm
Marita Volodina and Arkadiy Berg Steer Silesian Darkwave Toward Melodic Synth-Pop The STRIDULUM album Paradigm gets its synthesizers from Arkadiy Berg, stacked in layers under... 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
Soft Cell’s Danceteria Is One New York Night That Ends Back at the Club
Soft Cell: Dave Ball and Marc Almond The music for Danceteria was built in Dave Ball’s studio in South London. Ball sent the instrumentals to... 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
Chvrches Say Their Fifth Album Is Ninety Per Cent Done
Five years after Screen Violence, Chvrches have put a number on the next record. In a February 2026 interview the band said the fifth album... 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
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