RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://donner.bandcamp.com/album/the-van-gennep-gap Being rather infatuated with this entity’s debut effort, namely the evocative Hesitant Light from 2021, I had high hopes for White Willow mastermind Jacob Holm-Lupo’s latest creation under the Donner moniker. Now that The Van Gennep Gap is out and I have had the opportunity to properly immerse myself in…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://starforce.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-nano-ep Thanks to the good people over at Darkhan Music we can now look forward to a glorious vinyl edition of the deftly executed Age of Nano by the gifted Finnish entity known as Starforce, and what could possibly be cooler than that? Stylistically speaking, we are talking synthwave of the…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://www.darkhanbit.com/product/vector-seven-modified-lp-pre-order/ The synthwave/retrowave entity named Vector Seven impressed me greatly with the Electric Blood and Dark Metropolis albums, and so naturally, I was looking forward to immersing myself in this gorgeous-looking vinyl version of Modified, which originally came out in 2019 as a digital release. Dark, pulsating, and trance-inducing waves of…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://meltmotif.bandcamp.com/album/a-white-horse-will-take-you-home The intriguing musical entity known as Melt Motif, which consists of members from Norway and Brazil, is something quite extraordinary and weaves electronica, synthwave, industrial rock, and some other elusive ingredient that I cannot quite put my finger on to great effect. While chunks of “A White Horse Will Take…
