Where synthetic souls cast spells and circuits dream: Elly Kace offers The Seventh Gate, a tender and fierce mystical admission built from strings, sound healing instruments, and vocal layering — intimate conversations with the ones who still haunt her. Modern Ideas brings Melbourne garage synth-pop dripping with plastic dreams and electric romance, channeling Depeche Mode and New Order into something warm yet coldly cinematic. Kindness Inc. conjures an electro folk spell about a love that betrays death, while Rinsse explores isolation and bewilderment through psychedelic pop colliding with industrial electronics. BLF rounds things out with a spastic-but-cohesive quantum popcorn burst for fans of Sly Stone, Kraftwerk, and the Butthole Surfers.
Modern Ideas
This Is How It Hurts
Melbourne-based synth-pop/new wave debut single from Modern Ideas, the solo project of Wilding's Justin Stokes. RIYL: Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys