Groove Armada Return to Synth Pop with the New Studio Album

Ten years ago Groove Armada released their brilliant album Black Light which also meant the change of course for the duo and moving from club friendly tech house to catchy synth pop sound. Now after ten years, it seems that the duo is coming back to this challenge and have released another very slick synth pop record with House admixture. The new album is titled Edge of Horizon and this is also the single to take a lead from. There are quite a few parallels to be drawn between these two and what both records have in common is that they are both catchy and flawless.

WAW: Sinead O'Connor - Trouble of the World

Sinead O'Connor has released a new single which is a cover of Mahalia Jackson's "Trouble of the World". All of Sinead O'Connor's profits from the single are going to Black Lives Matter fund. The video for the song was directed by Don Letts.

September Singles Roundup

This September has been long but filled with good quality music. Certainly one of the highlights is the return of New Order. Gorillaz have meanwhile teamed up with Robert Smith for their six episode of the Song Machine Project. Otherwise interesting comeback from The Shins and La Femme.

New Order - Be a Rebel

James Blake - Godspeed

 

Temples - Paraphernalia

Rhye - Helpless

La Femme - Paradigme

SG Lewis, Robyn, Channel Tres - Impact

Tropical Fuck Storm - Legal Ghost

Gorillaz - Strange Times ft Robert Smith

The Shins - The Great Divide

Annie - The Streets Where I Belong

Best of 1990 - The Singles List

The year 1990 has been one of the most exciting years ever, maybe due to the fact that it was between the two decades when music styles shifted and the songs were influenced by the past decade but also looking into the future with new technologies. For some artists it was a clear career peaks when they released their best selling albums and/or singles. This year belonged to Depeche Mode, Madonna, Sinead O'Connor, but at the same time Euro dance and Brit pop exploded.

Over the next month we will feature the best singles from the 1990 that comes as a result of the Singles poll that was up this summer. Stay tuned!

01. Depeche Mode  - Enjoy The Silence

02. Madonna - Vogue

03. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U

04. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring

05. George Michael - Freedom

06. The Cure - Pictures of You

07. Julee Cruise - Falling

08. Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth

09. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

10. Madonna - Justify My Love

11. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

12. The House of Love- Shine On

13. St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

14. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

15. The KLF - Last Train to Trancentral

16. George Michael - Praying For Time

17. The Beautiful South - A Little Time

18. The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends

19. Technotronic - Get Up

20. INXS - Suicide Blonde

Next Wave: SRSQ

SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is  the  solo  project  of  Kennedy  Ashlyn who was previously a female half of Them Are Us Too who released two studio albums in 2015 and 2018 respectively. The duo split after the tragic death of Cash Askew who was Kennedy's close collaborator, friend and the other half Them Are Us Too. In 2018, Kennedy also released her first solo album through which she explored sorrow and loss in darkwave rhythms.

Now in 2020 she is back with a new single which is in the same vein and the previous releases, Ethereal Wave and dream pop of the perfect quality which takes cues from the best of the past including the likes of Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. Her single "Temporal Wave" was released in end of last year while the video (below) for the song was premiered in March 2020. 

Instant Hit: The Heart Throbs - Dreamtime

Thirty years ago The Heart Throbs released their debut album Cleopatra in 1990 and one of the outstanding songs from this album was "Dreamtime". There is this interesting fact that the two members of The Heart Throbs, the sisters DeFreitas were actually sisters of the late Pete DeFreitas of Echo & the Bunnymen fame who died in the motorcycle accident in 1989 at the age of 26. Pretty much underrated "Dreamtime" holds in it the best from the two decades and still sounds very contemporary. 

WAW: LAUREL - Scream Drive Faster

LAUREL has revealed the video for the song "Scream Drive Faster". The Music video was directed by Elliott Arndt.