Pop music

Plastic dreams and electric rebellion: Modern Ideas delivers cold, cinematic '80s synth-pop where "synthetic forms can be the most authentic way to express emotion" — Depeche Mode and New Order vibes from a Melbourne garage. theJLM fires a warning shot at the hyper-elite with the scorching "Guillotine," while Jon Hopper conjures melodic, melancholic synth-pop steeped in memory and nostalgia. BLF offers a spastic-but-cohesive burst of quantum popcorn for fans of Sly Stone and Kraftwerk alike, and Bene Magdala Sisters close it out with a glitchy, club-ready manifesto forging sisterhood from techno, ritual, and unapologetic queer power.