Buzzin Pop Music

Birmingham based label Speech Fewapy Records have this month released the ‘Shruburbia’ EP by Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame & is available for free download.

‘Shruburbia’ is pure synth- pop that takes you on a journey through one man’s record collection drawing on influences from Prince to the Cocteau Twins.
Heavy synth bass and catchy melodies are [...]

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Katsen are the electronic synth pop duo of Chris Blackburn & Donna Grimaldi.
Their love of electronic pop music is analogue sounds, synthetic sounding drum machines.
The sound is distinctly 1980s synth pop while Donna’s look is more 1950s chic.
Donna and Chris became friends in 2001 while selling clothes at a craft market in Brighton. Donna’s brilliant [...]

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If you are old enough to have been listening to pop music in the 1980s or you wondered what it was like to see the bands your parents still go on about, then chances are you will be able to as several big pop groups from the 1980s have either come out of hibernation or [...]

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Moonshot – No Sign Of Morning – album review

Moonshot (Daniel Kent and Richard Wolfe) make dark, urban music with a strong influence from 80s electronic bands and early 90s trip-hop. Their new LP No Sign Of Morning is their latest in a long line of releases – they have produced five albums and two EPs [...]

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Fischerspooner release a brand new album simply titled Entertainment on 4th May on Lo Recordings.
The album was recorded over a two-year period with Jeff Saltzman who has received commercial success with The Killers.
The album entwines elements of synth pop with at times, more sophisticated electro tendencies to deliver a very polished, produced sound that falls [...]

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