synthpop
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New York indietronic legends LCD Soundsystem return with a tepid set of songs with washed out mixes and lackluster lyrics.
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The latest Everything Everything album finds the UK art pop outfit taking their songwriting in a moodier and somewhat more conventional direction.
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Everything Now finds Arcade Fire making a bolder and tighter move in a dance music direction than on Reflektor, but unfortunately it’s even more of a mixed bag.
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On her sophomore album Melodrama, Lorde makes a few Top 40 concessions, but shows a ton of promise with the stylistic and formal risks she does take.
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Australia’s Kirin J Callinan delivers one of this year’s most colorfully eccentric pop records with Bravado.
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Witness finds Katy Perry heading in exciting new sonic and lyrical directions, but is sometimes held back by Katy indulging in safer, staler sounds and her usual cliches.
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Chromatics were featured in last week’s premiere of the new Twin Peaks series, and their soothing dream pop sound was just what viewers needed after two hours of Lynchian horror. Here’s the song they played as the credits rolled; it’s set to appear on the soundtrack Twin
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After Laughter, Paramore’s first album in four years, finds the pop punk band going through a synthpop metamorphosis.
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Sincerely, Future Pollution finds Timber Timbre taking their sound in a more synthetic direction without conjuring the mood that made their past couple of albums so alluring.
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While not a full commitment to its titular concept, 50 Song Memoir is The Magnetic Fields’ most charming and ambitious album in over a decade.
