From Bengali infused piano house to the melodrama of Italo disco heartbreak, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. Listen to our selections below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat. 100 Gecs – Doritos & Fritos The second
experimental / House / hyperpop / italo disco / piano house / pop-punk / post-club / Remix / Tech House
Of all hyperpop and alt-pop’s current graduating class, perhaps no one truly loves pop music more than Sonikku. The London producer’s somewhat nerdy passion for the genre has seen him synthesise the dance pop of his wildest dreams with the giddy excitement of a child in a candy store. Cutting
The new generation of goth artists currently emerging are mostly millennial/Gen-Z cusps, raised on a diet of the noxious nu-metal of early 2000’s and My Chemical Romance, supplemented with the drama of Evanescence and HIM. But specific to this generation of alternative, children of the darkness is a sort of
The dichotomy between PC Music and 100 Gecs’s respective styles of hyperpop is sort of bridged by umru. The Brooklyn based producer has always brought his American sensibilities to the otherwise UK informed PC Music collective; immediately bawdier, more in-your-face saturations of pop tropes than, say, A.G. Cook’s slightly more
Almost six years after the label’s sophomore compilation, hyperpop pioneers PC Music have announced the release of PC Music, Vol. 3. The new full length compilation will feature twenty entries from artists on and associated with the label. These include Caroline Polachek, Clario, Charli XCX and PC Music label head
From massive trap house remixes to post-punk informed New Wave, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Mura Masa with Shygirl, PinkPantheress and Lil Uzi Vert – Bbycakes Grammy Award winning producer Mura Masa is one of the hottest new talents in underground pop and
Alice Glass has been on a journey of self-reclamation. Following the public fallout of Crystal Castles and her allegations of emotional and sexual abuse against former bandmate Ethan Kath, Glass was left shattered. But since then, she’s been picking up the pieces and has taken the time to temper herself
The future as prophesied by works of science fiction has never felt more likely to transpire. In the past year alone, we’ve come closer to the sort of tech-dystopias as foretold by H.G Wells than ever before. There’s Zuckerburg’s unveiling of the Metaverse, a chilling new reality that once seemed
Alt-Pop / ambient / experimental / glitch pop / hyperpop / trip-hop
Pop-punk and emo culture are experiencing a resurgence. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this new wave seems to come off the back of the current wave of Y2k nostalgia. Legacy acts like Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker are making lauded comebacks, while contemporary pop artists like Willow and current it-girl Olivia Rodrigo have
On the 30th of January 2021, Scottish born producer and acclaimed pop visionary Sophie Xeon began to make her way up to her rooftop in Athens to gaze at the moon. “True to her spirituality,” the statement from her label Transgressive would read later that day while confirming that the
