When veteran Hip-Hop trio De La Soul dropped their ninth full length album ‘and the Anonymous Nobody… ‘ last Summer I wasn’t trying to hear it. It was just too much of a departure from the sampladelic production aesthetic that put them on the map for me me and I[…]
Tag: Synthpop
Lusine – Just a Cloud feat. Vilja Larjosto (Video)
Watch a public transportation rider experience initiatory illumination via a sort of music-fueled hallucinatory singularity in the new clip for IDM beatmaker Lusine’s “Just a Cloud”. The downtempo House jam featuring glitchy micro-edited vocals from Vilja Larjosto is from the Seattle-based producer’s ‘Sensorimotor’ LP which is out now via Ghostly[…]
Katy Perry – Bon Appétit feat. Migos (Video)
Earlier today I got an excited instant message from a friend asking if I’d seen the new Katy Perry video. I had not. The message came from an individual with whom I’d once engaged in fantasy sex-play involving simulated murder, necrophilia, and anthropophagy. It read, simply, “cannibalism”. The video, for[…]
Gorillaz – Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) (Video)
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s “virtual band” Gorillaz is back with a 360-degree interactive video, replete with Lovecraftian tentacle monsters, for their new Caribbean-spiced auto-tune Electro-Dancehall-Pop tune “Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)”. “Saturnz Barz”, which features vocals from Popcaan, is the first single from the animated group’s forthcoming fifth LP ‘Humanz’,[…]
Vitalic – Waiting for the Stars feat. David Shaw and The Beat (Video)
Considering Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic proclamation that “every man and every woman is a star in 1904’s ‘Liber AL vel Legis’ and the importance of “starry wisdom” and “the stars” being “right” in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos it kinda makes sense I’d be feeling French Electro/Techno guy Vitalic’s “Waiting for the[…]
Little Dragon – Sweet (Video)
A video featuring a giant space structure and a super sci-fi flavored alien witch-cult for a new millennium take on early ’90s House music is exactly the sort of weirdness I needed from Swedish Synth-Funk outfit Little Dragon right about now. “Safe” is from Little Dragon’s forthcoming fifth LP ‘Season[…]
Xiu Xiu – Wondering (Video)
“Wandering”, the newest video clip from California-bred Alternative darling Jamie Stewart’s Xiu Xiu, couples bizarrely surreal visuals with dramatically Goth-y Industrial-influenced Synthpop. It’s from the band’s forthcoming tenth studio album ‘Forget’, which is out February 24th on Polyvinyl Records. I’ve heard it, and liked a lot of what I heard.[…]
Mai Lan – Vampire (Video)
Okay, I can admit to having a bit of a blood fetish, so “Vampire” the brand new blood soaked video clip from Franco-Vietnamese singer and fashion designer Mai Lan is right up my alley. The track from the M83 collaborator’s newest single is a bouncy Caribbean influenced Electo-Pop cut with[…]
Phantogram – You Don’t Get Me High Anymore (Video)
After a brief detour into the world of Hip-Hop on their Big Grams project with rapper Big Boi of OutKast co-ed Electropop duo Phantogram is back with a booming but buzzy new single “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore”. As you might expect, a sci-fi, body-horror, and BDSM-inspired video for[…]
of Montreal – It’s Different for Girls (Video)
“Though some of them are demons, all of them are Gods…Gods…Gods…Gods..” Kevin Barnes is always good for at least one profound quotable per tune, and “It’s Different for Girls”, the new single from his band of Montreal, is no exception. “It’s Different for Girls” is from of Montreal’s forthcoming fourteenth[…]
Róisín Murphy – Ten Miles High (Video)
It feels like Róisín Murphy just put out a record. But she’s back with a new album, ‘Take Her Up to Monto’, and a kaleidoscopic new video for its first single “Ten Miles High”. ‘Take Her Up to Monto’ is out July 8th on Play It Again Sam. Róisín Murphy
Philco Fiction – June 17th (Video)
The weirdness quotient is high in this cinematic clip for Norwegian duo Philco Fiction’s new single “June 17th”. Filmmakers Runar Sørheim & Øyvind Langdalen turn in a narrative short focused on an underground conspiracy involving a radioactive alien of some kind for the otherwise straightforward dramatic Synth-Pop slow-jam. “June 17th”[…]