Synthetic Villains Lancaster, UK
Instrumental, mostly electronic music.
From the "experimental, slightly off-kilter" (Bandcamp New
& Notable) synth-pop of the debut album to the "pulsing Berlin School synths" (Electronic Sound Magazine) of the latest albums, SV albums explore drones, repetitions, textures and riffs.
The 3rd album is over on Werra Foxma's Sub Club.
wfrsubclub.bandcamp.com/album/through-a-crack-of-light
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Synthetic Villains recommends:
WFR SubClub 2022
by Various Artists
A subscription-free one-off comp on cassette of the class of 2022, including my track "Alive to it All".
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'A Compulsion For Propulsion' Studio Album, 2018
by Three Dimensional Tanx
"The speeding motorik of 'His Latest Apparatus' would get them pulled off the autobahn...Buzzcocks, Swell Maps and especially Wire are reference points" Shindig! Magazine
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I love this whole album but Piezoelectric Shores is cemented in my mind as being synonymous with 2023. I love it when music can put its stamp on a period in your life, where you were, what you were doing and how you felt. Magic.
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This ambient pop album from Chute Records label head Jan the Man captures melancholy, contemplative moods simply, and without words.
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The latest from Dan Casey is a dizzying kaleidoscope of throwback synth sounds, made mostly using the DSI Tetra.
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