new wave

Sweet throwback synth vibes for New York nights and West Coast drives, this one sparked some serious nostalgia for half-remembered late-'80s movie montages and classic new-wave bands...

Here's a late dark horse contender for your year-end lists: weirdo electronic group Thool take us on an immersive audiovisual journey through a balmy, disorienting haze of left-field prog, boogie, balearica, and other assorted unclassifiable hypnagogic pop oddities...

BOSCO follows up one of the dreamiest vids of the year with another wavy track from her new EP b., out August 11th on Fools Gold:

Thanks to Adam for the heads up on Russian experimental pop luminary Kate Shilonosova, aka NV, and her entrancing and addictive new album Binasu. The adventurous, genre-defying record is teeming with otherworldly, '80s Japanese new wave-indebted pop vibes, and with songs like the very kawaii "Kata" and the twinkling title track recalling the bright playfulness of some of Miharu Koshi's m

Kristin Welchez (aka Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls) unveils the beautiful, '80s-pop-inspired title track from X-Communicate, her new album as Kristin Kontrol, out in May on Sub Pop. Kristin says of the record: