Hotel Apache is one of those bands that I only recently discovered because I was making a list of syth-pop bands that reminded me of The 1975 (which you can read if you want to know of other bands with a similar sound) and they’re one of the bands that I’ve been coming back to […]
If you had told me 10 years ago, no even five years ago, that I would enjoy music that had a heavy synth influence I would have scoffed at you. I was too punk rock for that, I needed screeching guitars and loud vocals and intense drums. I didn’t listen to anything pop-y or dance-y […]
So we were supposed to have a new album from The 1975 by now but it’s been pushed so many times that I’m more ready for it to come out of nowhere than for it to come out on the day they say it will. So as we wait–for many albums, not just from this […]
There are so many reasons that I’m excited about Williams’ solo releases and the fact that they’re all synthy, experimental style songs is a big part of it. Listening to this song for the first time was like being transported back in time to the 80’s. That synth comes in for that first chorus and […]
This is a song I didn’t pay much attention to the first time I heard it… that is, until it got to the first chorus and then I started dancing against my will. It’s such an infectiously upbeat song that I was fully grooving to it by the time it had played through that first […]
Synth-pop is something I’ve gotten into more over the last couple of years and I’m honestly super happy the style is coming back. From the first couple of seconds of this song I was overtaken with a sense of nostalgia–which can either be good or bad. I’m not a very sentimental person so depending on […]
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