“Synth/Electropop with bite and punch”
Synths, static, and new wave swagger: Song for a Gorgeous Blonde's Bor i bergen resurrects a 1985 Casio-heavy keyboard demo with crazy keys, chunky guitars, and tumbling drums in a musical celebration of the mountains. The Mystic Underground's We Could Be Fugitives turns up the tempo to maximum dancefloor ferocity — a clarion call to "take your lover by the hand and run away from your inhibitions." SOFT RIOT's Crux cruises through minimalist darkwave and EBM with subtle humor and mild psychedelia, while Melbourne's Modern Ideas conjures dramatic, cinematic garage synthpop where "plastic dreams and electric romance" meet machines humming with human desire. Montreal's Glass Dolls rounds things out with bedroom pop/post-punk meditations on love and grief.