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
Dark Pop
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
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
Nessa Barrett Reached for Portishead and Massive Attack on Tough Love
The first thing you hear on Bad Girls Never Die is not a synth. It is a string section and a strummed guitar, recorded with... 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
The Hip-Hop Dance-Pop Sound and Where It Went on Hold Me Close Now! By Gloria May Byron 
Why Chillwave Keeps Coming Back: Goodbye Gravity by Attaboy 
Why Synth-Pop Keeps Coming Back, as Shoshan Dunamis Shows on Have a Sense 
Bright Arpeggios Under a Heavy Heart, and How to Hear Them on LNNY’s Gehen Rafatape Remix