Ask anyone in the synthwave community who the scenes top vocalist is, and Ollie Wride is going to make everyone’s top five. Not only is he brilliant, but he belongs to the first wave of retro pop innovators.
He is the gold standard, and asset that makes his involvement in the new band The Americana English so exciting. Their new single Radio might be their best yet. It has the catchy appeal know to Wride’s iconic contribution to the FM84 song Running In the Night. If this band comes through your town, don’t miss it.
Hear Radio now on our Best New Synthwave Playlist.
Evan Odyssey has a New Track ft Silance SVP. The Colombian synthwave upstart effectively injects modern electronic sonic sparks in the synthwave canon. It works. The jive and attitude of the vocal performance seals the deal.
Stylistically it’s somewhere between The 1975 and the greater synthwave canon. It’s fun and gloriously cinematic. Feel it.
New Track is featured on our Best New Synthwave Playlist.
Now for something completely different. Innovations in retro pop these days are rare, it’s just one of the reasons we adore Telemarketer Terrorists. The new single from You Bred Raptors is a complicated tirade of existential quarrel. The vocalists sensibility is somewhere between post punk and emo; somewhere between musical theater and prose. With the retro synth soundtrack churning beneath, Telemarketer Terrorists is full of intriguing contrast.
Stylistically it’s as if Petey joined Postal Service. We can dig it.
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The Wild Is Calling 