Automatic Share Music Video For "Automaton"

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have shared the video for their latest single "Automaton". 

The song is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Excess', released on June 24th via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

The band say, “'Automaton' is about having to deprogram yourself from capitalist ways of thinking, but, of course, we framed the song in our sci-fi theme - with an actual automaton as protagonist."

Watch the clip below.

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New Entry: The Serfs Air New Single "Is There An Exit?"

Cincinnati minimal synth/synth punk/post punk band The Serfs have aired their new single “Is There An Exit?". 

The song is out now via Future Shock. Stream it below.

Watch: Automatic Unleash "Skyscraper" Music Video

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have unleashed the video for their latest single "Skyscraper". 

The song is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Excess', set to be released June 24th via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

Skyscraper imagines a Patrick Bateman type - the kind of sociopath who excels in C-suites and complains about affordable housing going up in his neighborhood. Halle explains, “It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job.” Lola adds: “Kind of like going to LA to live your dreams.”. 

Take a listen below.

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New Entry: Automatic Premiere New Single "Skyscraper"

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have premiered their new single "Skyscraper". 

The song is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Excess', set to be released June 24th via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

Skyscraper imagines a Patrick Bateman type - the kind of sociopath who excels in C-suites and complains about affordable housing going up in his neighborhood. Halle explains, “It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job.” Lola adds: “Kind of like going to LA to live your dreams.”. 

Take a listen below.

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New Entry: Sektion Tyrants Premiere New Single "Systematic Letdown"

Vancouver, BC post punk/synth punk duo Sektion Tyrants have premiered their new single "Systematic Letdown".

This is the 4th digital single from their forthcoming debut full length to be released on Take Away The Love Records. Get it here.

Stream it below.

Watch: Automatic Premiere New Single/Video "Venus Hour"

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have premiered the video for their new single "Venus Hour". 

The song is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Excess', set to be released June 24th via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

Automatic’s Izzy Glaudini originally wrote “Venus Hour” as an ode to “psycho-feminine energy”. The song is “about whatever it is inside you that makes you want to do that thing that isn’t logical, or safe.”

In “Venus Hour,” desire is a double-edged sword, an impulse that can result in addiction. Excess, rides the imaginary edge where the 1970s underground met the corporate culture of the 1980s – or, as the band puts it, “That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism.” Though the album grapples with contemporary concerns – the exodus of the super rich from an uninhabitable Earth, the precarity of the art life, Gen Z inheriting the planet at the eleventh hour – the album’s final message is one of solidarity rather than despair. 

The “Venus Hour” video, directed by Sylvie Lake, also slips between the decades, with each member of the band representing a female character from a different era: 1930s (Izzy), 1960s (Lola) and 1990s (Halle) – all seen through distortion and mirror images that visualize the song’s themes of performance and gender identity. Inspiration came from Thoroughly Modern Millie (Lola), Peewee’s Playhouse on VHS (Halle), and The Tales of Hoffmann (Izzy). The video was shot in iconic Californian locations: Izzy dances with two sculptures at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Lola is shown at Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall in L.A., and Halle walks through the Niki De Saint Phalle sculpture garden.

Watch/listen below.

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New Entry: VR SEX Unveil New Single "Live In A Dream"

Los Angeles synth punk/death rock/post punk outfit VR SEX (lead by Andrew Clinco) have unveiled their new single "Live In A Dream".

The song is taken from their upcoming sophomore album 'Rough Dimension', set to be released on  March 25 via Dais Records. Pre-order your copy here.

“Live (In A Dream)” is a brief yet familiar story of delusion and destruction. The song is a tale of myopia while the video zooms out and observes the world and it’s both natural and man-made absurdities and atrocities.”  

Watch a lyric below.

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VR SEX Announce New LP 'Rough Dimension', Stream "Victim or Vixen"

Los Angeles synth punk/death rock/post punk outfit VR SEX (lead by Andrew Clinco) have announced the release of their sophomore album 'Rough Dimension'.

Set to be released on March 25 via Dais Records, the album takes its title from an architectural phrase but more importantly refers to the warped, wicked underworld the songs both chronicle and condemn. Pre-order your copy here.

Donning the moniker Noel Skum – an acerbic anagram of Elon Musk – Clinco vents his scorn for and fascination with the seedy, surreal margins of low-life Los Angeles, doomed to dead ends of vanity, lust, and technology. Although initially launched as an outlet for “heavier sounds” beyond Clinco’s duties in new wave fantasists Drab Majesty, the project has ripened into a compelling exercise in world building, weaving themes of gritty city neo-futurist sleaze within a framework of driving, distorted guitars and cathode-blasted synths. Echoes of Chrome, Wire, Minimal Man, and Sisters Of Mercy ripple through the collection but ultimately "Rough Dimension" charts its own twisted vision of “our unforgiving reality.”

Written and demoed across two weeks alone in a Marseille flat using his prized 1980’s Gibson “Invader” and a laptop, Clinco then took the tracks to Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn to record with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) who helmed 2019’s debut, Human Traffic Jam. The results are notably ripping, refined, and riveting. Riffs in alternate tunings chug and churn over mid-tempo drums punctuated by spikes of sci-fi electronics while the vocals swagger and spit venom (“where we walk is also where we shit / but if we bark at our reflections are we hypocrites? / impulses bleed right into our seed / where hate culminates the apple rotted on the tree”). It’s a bristling mix of the melodic and the macabre, absurdist observations of fast living and desperate measures, the clock of youth ticking towards midnight as dreams unravel in Babylon.

VR SEX’s specialty is making these cautionary tales of psychic decay and tainted love a thrill rather than a drag. There’s a sunglasses at night glamor to Clinco’s choruses and solos, a wit to his black leather judgements (“what is the answer / to cancerous people / walking in my line of sight?”). The music’s milieu tends towards parasites and predators but its mood skews refreshingly accelerated and amused, cruising the strip with a cigarette, watching goths and limousines crawl in gridlock beneath digital billboards. The Rough Dimension may be a cesspool, but it’s home. 

Check out the album's tracklist and the video for lead single "Victim or Vixen", below.

Rough Dimension Tracklist:

01. Victim or Vixen

02. Glutton for Love

03. Cyber Crimes

04. Live (In a Dream)

05. Walk of Fame

06. Crisis Stage

07. Taste of Hate

08. Snake Water

09. End Vision

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Watch: Dear Deer Unveil New Single/Video "Joan"

French synth/post punk/no wave band Dear Deer aka Federico Iovino (Popoï Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cold War, Cheshire Cat), have unveiled the video for their new single "Joan".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'Collect and Reject', which will be out on 25th of march via Swiss Dark Nights. Grab it here.

Watch/listen below.

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Watch: mnttaB Unleashes Visuals For "Alison"

Melbourne synth punk/darkwave/minimal synth outfit mnttaB have unleashed visuals for his new single "Alison".

The song is taken from his new release 'This Friction', out today, November 16 through Detonic Recordings. Get it here.

Contrail or Chem-trail? Kaleidoscope or Rorschach? Its hard to tell until you get up close. 

Watch/listen below.

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New Entry: DROVES Premiere New Single "Operator"

Sydney via Wollongong new wave/synth punk DROVES have premiered their new single "Operator".

Lead by vocalist and front-woman Taylor McAuliffe 'Operator' is an ode to safe spaces in music venues and the importance of calling out toxic behaviour that can sometimes go unchecked. Co-written by Fletcher Matthews (Clews, The Buoys, and Dear Seattle) 'Operator' is just one of the multiple releases that DROVES have in store for 2021 and a call out from their EP that will be out on the 15th of October.

“This song to me was written as a call to be confident, be loud and be heard. It’s a way to put aside the everlasting negative impacts some situations and experiences have for a few minutes to celebrate, dance, and let go instead.” Taylor elaborates, “We’ve always made it imperative that our shows are a safe space for everyone to be comfortable in. It’s a value that we, as a band, hold very closely. We will always stand in solidarity with anyone who has been impacted by harassment or abuse and the constant fear that comes with it. There’s been enough silence around subjects that make people uncomfortable, and this is our chance to use our platform to voice this.”

Grab it here and stream it below.

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New Entry: Thee Hearses Share New Track "It Came from Planet X"

US dance punk/new wave/synth punk Thee Hearses have shared their addictive new track "It Came from Planet X".

The song is taken from their self-titled EP, out today (July 13). Get it copy here.

Stream it below.

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Watch: Laura Krieg Premieres New Single/Video "Fin du travail"

Montreal-based post punk/synth punk artist Laura Krieg has premiered the video for her infectious new single "Fin du travail".

The song is taken from her new EP 'Vie magique', out today (June 28). Grab it here.

The title and lyrics are directly inspired by one of the chapters of Maintenant, a book by the Comité Invisible (Éditions La Fabrique, 2017). Krieg offers a statement of intent for the track:

A black cat screaming against wage labour
corporate culture
team bonding
self promotion
team building
time management
team retreat weekend team getaway after-office activities
and such abominations

Watch/listen below.

Watch: DROVES Release Music Video For "Trash"

Sydney via Wollongong new wave/synth punk DROVES have released the video for their latest single "Trash".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming Self-Titled EP. Grab it here.

Watch the video below.

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New Entry: DROVES Premiere New Single "Trash"

Sydney via Wollongong new wave/synth punk DROVES have premiered their new single "Trash".

The song is taken from their upcoming Self-Titled EP.

Drawing on punk influences and blending them with a dance heavy chorus in a way that feels both nostalgic and fresh at the same time has become a calling card for DROVES. Leaning into that very aesthetic, 'Trash' speaks to finding acceptance in yourself, battling against imposter-syndrome and overcoming feelings of being out of place.

Grab it here and stream it below.

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Watch: VR SEX Release New Single/Video "Dog Complex"

Los Angeles synth punk/death rock/post punk outfit VR SEX (lead by Andrew Clinco) have released the video for their new single "Dog Complex".

The song is taken from their upcoming new EP 'Cyber Crimes', set to arrive on April 30. Pre-order your copy here.

Watch/listen below.

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VR SEX Announce New EP 'Cyber Crimes', Stream "Minor Case"

Los Angeles synth punk/death rock/post punk outfit VR SEX (lead by Andrew Clinco) have announced the release of their new EP 'Cyber Crimes.'

From the band: "No one is exempt from the world wide web of destruction. A once -innocent digital playground has turned into a panopticon for pedophiles and predators - waiting, watching, baiting, and stalking. 2020 proved to be the tipping point in exposing these bloodsuckers within the world of music and art. Devoid of satire and sarcasm, Cyber Crimes stands alongside the victimized and attempts to serve as a sobering scene report for the current state of affairs."

The EP will be out on April 30. Pre-order your copy here and listen to their new single "Minor Case" below.

Cyber Crimes Tracklist:

01. Rock N’ Roll Death

02. Minor Case 

03. Dog Complex

04. Lawyer Up

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Watch: Dear Deer Air Music Video For "Thanatomorphosis"

French synth/post punk/no wave band Dear Deer aka Federico Iovino (Popoï Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cold War, Cheshire Cat), have dropped the video for "Thanatomorphosis".

The song is taken from the album 'Chew-Chew', released in October 2018 via Manic Depression and Swiss Dark Nights. Grab it here.

Watch the clip below.

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Watch: Automatic Unveil Live Video For "Champagne"

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have unveiled a live video for "Champagne". 

The original version of the song features on their album 'Signal', released in September last year via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

Watch below.

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Watch: Automatic Unleash Live Video For "Damage"

Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have unleashed a live video for "Damage". 

The original version of the song features on their album 'Signal', released in September last year via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.

Watch below.

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