Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s love letter to a Cheshire oil refinery: ‘We needed to represent the machines’
“Eternally / This field remains.”
Synth Pop
Marta Del Grandi – ‘Dream Life’ album review: A mosaic of indie pop
‘Experimental’ doesn’t quite cover what’s going on here
Tale of the Tape: The story behind DAF’s acerbic gem ‘Alles ist gut’
“Und jetzt den Jesus Christus.”
Hirons – ‘Future Perfect’ EP review: A stunningly evocative synth-pop gem
“…semi-minimalist arrangements that fizz and alchemise together with electronic radiation at its warmest”.
Introducing Rhizome and The Flavonoids, taking synthpunk to strange new places: “We explore alien soundscapes”
“…tap into modern absurdity and disorder to hatch a new mutation…”
“We were good at being weird”: The synth-punk story of San Francisco’s Units
“In my mind, it wasn’t so much a music genre as a lifestyle”.