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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Interim Report, March 1979
by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
supported by 27 fans who also own “Energy Exchange”
Amazing!!! I missed out on the vinyl. Hopefully there’s a 3rd pressing of this release in the future. So far, my favorite album of 2021
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supported by 23 fans who also own “Energy Exchange”
O love all the songs on this amazing album, howevet this particular one sticks out to me while stoned on chem•de-la•chem walking beneath the twilight clouds and setting the mood with this fabulous album I've been coming back to again and again with a topic I talk often of... life, time and the mystery of being and death.
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The Detective Is Dead
by Mute Branches
Hauntological ambient from the UK's Mute Branches—tense and evocative, imagining the sounds of urban myth and folkloric mystery.
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Adam Cresswell (Saloon, Arthur & Martha) builds ARP strings, drum samples, and krautrock grooves into a magical-realist synthpop collage.
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