Modern Ideas

Modern Ideas is a Melbourne/Naarm multi-instrumentalist songwriter who creates 80s sounding synth-pop from his garage. For Modern Ideas, pop is not about perfection — it is about transformation. Our DIY power to change shape, to become new forms, new feelings, new identities. Nothing is fixed, and everything can be remade. Drawing inspiration from the synthetic glamour of 80s electronic pop, Modern Ideas stands for one simple proposition: that modern life may be artificial — but within that artificiality lies the possibility of something beautiful, strange, and forever new. For fans of Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, and Nation Of Language.

‘Synthetic forms can be the most authentic way to express emotion. Something is revealed in the antithesis. Plastic dreams, electric romance, and machines humming with human desire. That’s my manifesto for Modern Ideas.’

‘Modern Ideas embraces contradiction: beauty and pain, melancholy and euphoria, romance and irony. I hope the listener can feel a calmness in that emotional ambiguity.’