Tag: electronic pop

Mila V - Good Intentions

Edgy electronic Pop from the Dutch chanteuse Mila V on her new EP Static. Sounds like a rougher and tougher Fever Ray. While all six tracks kick hard with catchy vocal top-lines, I particularly like Good Intentions with its sleazy, dirty vibe.

TATYANA - Hold My Hand

Catchy electronic Pop in the vein of Tirzah, Marie Davidson and Robyn by emerging Londoner TATYANA.

The Noise Who Runs - Takes a long cold look and then the kitchen sink

The Noise Who Runs is Ian Pickering (from Sneaker Pimps) and Felipe Goes and they make catchy Pop with a retro vibe. Takes a long cold look and then the kitchen sink is taken from their forthcoming album Preteretrospective.

Ben Shemie - The Return

Suuns lead Ben Shemie goes solo with a new album, Desiderata, due out next month, and this track taster is beautiful, doleful Electronic Pop.

Rodney Cromwell - Opus Three

The new Rodney Cromwell album Memory Box is such a stonking, feel-good affair (it's coming out on Friday this week). I'm particularly loving the track Opus Three at the moment, it does something weird with my memories, triggering nostalgia, providing a tiny escape for a few minutes.

Rosa Anschütz - Their Blood

Emotive song with a surging vibe and hacksaw riff that takes no prisoners.

Taken from her forthcoming album on BPitch (looks like they dropped the "Control" bit innit).

QUINQUIS - Adkrog

Electronic Pop dirge, dark and alluring debut from Émilie Tiersen, aka QUINQUIS. Previously she released music as Tiny Feet but Adkrog signals a fresh new direction.

Out now via Mute.

Sea Change - Night Eyes

Night Eyes is the first taste of new album from Norwegian artist Sea Change, aka Ellen A. W. Sunde.

The album Mutual Dreaming is due out in February 2022 via Shapes Recordings.

Flesh of Morning - Dream

Dream is the highlight from the new Flesh of Morning album Here In Heaven.

I Start Counting - Talk About The Weather

Mute have unearthed an obscure 80s electronic Pop gem called Talk About The Weather from I Start Counting, a band they signed in 1982.

With the duo, Simon Leonard and David Baker, they're releasing the track on cassette later this year alongside another bunch of demos from the mid-eighties. Here's some useful blurb from the press release:

I Start Counting are David Baker and Simon Leonard. The duo formed in 1982 and signed to Mute in 1984. Their first singles, ‘Letters to a Friend’ and ‘Still Smiling’, were both produced by Daniel Miller and preceded two album releases, My Translucent Hands (1986) and Fused (1989). By the beginning of the 90s, Baker and Leonard had become Fortran 5, releasing three albums for the label, before reincarnating in 1996 as Komputer, the name they continue to record under.

These cassette releases collate a selection of demos of songs from 1985 and 1986 respectively, some of the songs have never been heard before, others went on to be recorded and released. 

Baker and Leonard, through all their iterations, have a very British knack of weaving pop masterpieces from often suburban and mundane subject matter - ‘Talk About The Weather’ and ‘625’ deal with youthful crushes and TV addiction and throughout their releases the duo take on small town discos, big dirty cities, young love and serial killers through the prism of electronics such Korg PolySix and the Greengate DS3 sampler.