So the big news this week, as you’ll probably guess from our Twitter and Google+ feeds, is the new single from one of our all-time faves Depeche Mode’s forthcoming 13th (and probably last) studio album Delta Machine, Heaven.
Heaven is a pretty unsurprising. An epic ElectroPop track injected with Dave and Martins blues influences The B-side, however, All That’s Mine, is a fantastic, moody, synthetic opus that harks back to late-80s Mode. Check the video for Heaven, directed by Timothy Saccenti, who revels in Depeche Mode’s religious iconography.
Ghost Capsules are a new ElectroPop quartet lead by Bomb The Bass main man Tim Simenon. Their début single, Inside, is an amazingly involving symphony of spikey synths, complex beats and razor sharp vocals.
Check the video, directed by Eni Brandner, setting the urban scene for Ghost Capsules music.
Ghost Capsules’ Inside is due out 29th March with an album to follow.
Chrome Canyon, Brooklyn’s resident analog synth wizard, has just released a new video. this one is for his track Generations, which is taken from the amazing Chrome canyon album Elemental Themes.
Accompanying the cosmic electronics is a rich, moody, narrative courtesy of director Ace Norton and features ballet dancer Amanda Wells. It’s not the BladeRunner dystopia you might expect from the track, but lovely nonetheless.
The track is taken from his Elemental Themes album, out now.
Here is the brand new video from our girl Vanbot for her forthcoming single Hold This Moment. We’ve been waiting for new Vanbot material for a while now and Hold This Moment doesn’t disappoint. It’s big, chilly, ScandiPop with tons of heart. Beautiful, melodic, SynthPop.
The video is the slickest clip Vanbot had done to date. It’s very Scandinavian, full of stark monochromes and tundra, but has an amazing personality too. This has made out day.
Vanbot’s Hold This Moment is released in February.
Dust are a pretty fantastic Nu-Italo/Avant Pop trio from Brooklyn who have just released their new 12”. A three track affair that leads with the amazingly haunting and infectious shrill Disco assault Past Future.
Check the video, directed by video manger Luke Wyatt, who’s slightly eerie retro visually capture the song perfectly.
Dust’s Part Future 12” is out now, as is the digital.
We posted Aussie Indie-ElectroPoppers Strange Talk’s new single Falling In Love back in November last year. it;s a cool track indeed, but it’s only just getting a video, which seems like a promotional missed boat, but there we are.
The clip is directed by Costa Vakas and sees Strange Talk raving their asses off basically. which, if you know the track, you’ll probably agree works pretty well.
We were going to write about this track, Sweedish IcePop siblings The Knife’s long awaited return single, Full Of Fire, last week, Using the Juno stream of the track. Then the Juno stream got pulled and there hasn’t been a stream of the whole song from an official source since, so out words went to waste. Today, the video dropped, so we can present the song is all it’s glory. A beautiful and engaging nine minute epic and everything we’d want from a The Knife track. At points the track feels more like being privy to a special The Knife live jam session as the duo constantly evolve the popping drums and abrasive synths. More true to the original ethos of Industrial Music that anything released in the past two decades, this Coldwave oddessy is made all the more appealing by Karin Dreijer Andersson’s welcoming vocals.
The video is a short film by Stockholm and Berlin-based feminist director Marit Östberg, who had this to say “The film ‘Full Of Fire’ consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”
Full Of Fire is taken from The Knifes forthcoming album, Shaking The Habitual, released 8th April,
Yesterday we premièred the brand new track from p e a c e FIRE. An amazing slice of synthetic Disco that heralds a welcome return for this Tokyo based producer.
Here’s the official video, put together by p e a c e FIRE himself. Cosmic visuals and Tokyo ahoy!
p e a c e FIRE’s Death By English is released 5th February.
Dombrance are an ecclectic French ElectroPop act who track Donna, will be featured on the forthcoming French artist compilation from Kitsuné Music, Kitsuné Parisien III.
Here’s the video, quirky Disco grooves accompanied by scenes of dancing craziness. Enjoy.
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