Tag: Dreamy

[Listen]: TOMMY DOWN: “Superficial”

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Think of: Leon Bridges, Nile Rodgers, Sade, Marvin Gaye 

Heavy with sex appeal, Tommy Down’s new funk-inspired track mellows disco synths and guitar into a languid, unhurried seduction. The chorus is simple with Down repeatedly chanting ‘super, super-ficial oh yeah…’ , lengthening each syllable to create a dreamy, sultry landscape of a smoke-filled underground bar.

The imagery of this track is vivid partly due to the melody but also partly due to the lyrical narrative that Down builds; citing Arctic Monkeys as lyrical inspiration, Down wanted to tell a story with this track, taking his listeners on a meandering path from beginning to end.

[Listen]: JAI WOLF: This Song Reminds Me of You

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Jai Wolf Back again releasing singles of his 2019 album this week.  Electronic music can be tear-jerking: whoever said that synths, beats and melody had no humanity really need to listen to this track, pure composition needing no words to reveal a yearning heart.

Give Jai Wolf some love, his album will drop on April 5 and he’s on tour! Full album review and tour dates will follow shortly.

 

[Listen] VÖK: Night & Day

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Dream-pop electronica band from Iceland, Vök create a dreamy world inspired by their bleak, but incredibly beautiful home country. Little sunlight, miles of snow, falling glaciers and terrifyingly cold, but crystal clear water are just some of the images their music seems to inspire. Often compared to the XX, the band takes aspects of the famous coolness and distance in the XX’s oeuvre and adds pulsing synths and heightened vocals to create an immense feeling of power, reminding me more often of BANKS and CHVRCHES.

The band has never played outside of Europe, yet their sound is growing to have a universal appeal. Give it a listen.

[Listen] W.H. LUNG: Simpatico People

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Hailing from Manchester, UK, W.H. Lung present this 10 minute odyssey of strumming guitars, bursts of synths, breathy singing and crystal clear production. Naming influences such as Prince and Julia Holter, the Synthpop trio also meld  post-punk into the mammoth track. Their sound distinctly feels like it has been grown in a time-machine, intricately collaging waves of different influences in a track that swells and recoils, excites and eases.

[Listen] JAI WOLF: Your Way

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Jai Wolf will be releasing a much anticipated album on April 5th, and of course the man behind the most atmospheric and emotionally driven electronic music has turned to retrowave. With music videos of astronauts in space, vivid imagery of electric blue and neon orange, his music reflects a introspective exploration of escapism and losing control.

Day Wave, featured on this track, has also explored similar themes with his airy indie, a fitting great favorite of music channels such as Majestic Casual on YouTube. The combination is an guitar-strummed modern take on just regular old beaty-synth, a unique sound that gets me very excited about the upcoming album.

Get hyped, Jai Wolf’s single just released released yesterday, with more to come on him and his work on this blog.

The posters above were designed by Mishko, a graphic artist who also did Jai Wolf’s entire promo package for the upcoming album. His work is the very embodiment of the spirit of synthwave, and we will probably unavoidably see more of him as his style so strongly resonates with the theme.

Official video just came out: Introspective, soulful ending with a bang and a flash.

https://mishko.co/portfolio

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