Watch: Yuko Yuko & Doctrine Air New Video For "Pas Tout L'Après Midi"

Nostalgic 80's pop artist Yuko Yuko and Doctrine have aired the video for "Pas Tout L'Après Midi". 

The song is part of our current playlist and is a new version of Yuko Yuko's track "When I Cry, I'll Smile", this time featuring French vocals from Cecile from Doctrine. 

It is taken from the Mostla Tape compilation from French digital singles label Beko Disques in cooperation with La Souterraine, released in December last year. Get it here.

Check out the video below.

(facebook.com/iamyukoyuko)

New Entry: Foreign/National Drop New Single "Always Blue"

Melbourne dark tropicalia band Foreign/National have drop their excellent new single "Always Blue".

The song, co-produced by Joey Walker of King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, is described by the band as "A moment of pain given clarity by hypnotic melody, a story told over and over until it makes perfect sense." 

The two track EP 'Always Blue'/'Good Morning and Crepes', will be out soon.

Stream the track below.

(facebook.com/ForeignNational)

LE CLICHÉ - Band of the Month February 2015

This month's BOTM on Kool Rock Radio is Barcelona/New York based minimal synth, synth pop project LE CLICHÉ.

Le Cliché is the project of Gerard Ryan, native of Limerick (Ireland), and pulls influences in all directions from 70's and 80's synthwave (in the vein of Human League, Japan, and Depeche Mode), to Ryan's background as an Associate Professor of marketing and consumer behavior. 

Le Cliché originally started as a synth project in 1984 when Ryan was a teenager, but later the project was put on hiatus in favour of a career in academia. The project was re-ignited in 2012, motivated by the appearance of new music from the 1980s that was being rediscovered and released by a host of relatively small but hugely motivated new record labels including Medical Records, and the like (and groups such as Dark Day, Mathematiques Modernes, Bal Paré, Ceramic Hello, and Experimental Products). 

Using a mix of both analog and virtual technologies, Ryan creates his own distinct sound echoing the postmodern themes of his research which culminated in the 2014 debut full length 'Consumer Behavior', released in December through Medical Records LLC.

Inspired by his doctoral research on consumer frustration when dealing with technology (specifically the internet), Ryan released the album's highly addictive track 'Waiting On the Internet", which was featured as Single Of the Week in January 14th here on kool Rock Radio.

Le Cliché will release a couple of new tracks in spring, on the forthcoming compilation from Cold Beats Records, a Barcelona based label.

Get your copy of 'Consumer Behaviour' here, and check out the video for the addictive "Waiting On The Internet" below.

(facebook.com/clichesongs)