Фирма Avant Records

LP limited to 500. Comes in UV Glossy Varnish picture sleeve. Skemer is a brand new cooperation between singer Kim Peers and guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove of post-metal band Amenra and his personal project Syndrome. Two very different worlds coll

RIYL: Echo & The Bunnymen, Prefab Sprout, Depeche Mode, Orange Juice, Wild Nothing If you are passionate about local music scenes as much as we are you might already know about the current brood of great bands going on in Cardiff, Wales. Chain Of Flowers were the first to hail from the Welsh capital, followed by related side projects such as Night Thoughts, more recently came Private World of which the two boys we're about to introduce are also live members of. A new wave/synth act from the same city called Plastic Estate is emerging this year. The duo composed by Nicholas James and Stanley Fouracres have released a few digital singles in 2019 as they've opened for The Murder Capital at S?n Festival and played alongside the likes of M!R!M, Josiah Konder and The Love Coffin. On the two songs that compose the single, Plastic Estate clearly draw influence from the best UK new wave and pop artists such as Dave Gahan, Paddy McAloon, Roddy Frame and yet there is a sophisticated casualness and an innate freshness in their songwriting that makes them not sounding dated at all. Amazing composition skills for such a young band and a perfect balance between electronic dance elements and acoustic instruments allow them to pay homage to the above-mentioned masters and to be a perfectly contemporary group at once. Although it's possible to pick out some darker lyrics, the overall feel is up-beat and breezy. It's a contrast that runs through a lot of their music - like a dichotomy between dark, melancholia and happier, brighter feelings. Whether it's a happy pop synth riff mixed with sombre lyrics or vice versa, the young Welsh duo is delivering the best 80's-inspired modern pop craft.

6 track EP. Nuovo Testamento is a new half-American half-Italian trio featuring members from Horror Vacui, Sheer Mag, Torsö, Terremoto and Crimson Scarlet. With such references you wouldn't expect this to be any less good than it actually is. Exposu

RIYL: Tangerine Dream, Brad Fiedel, Lorn, Mica Levi, Nine Inch Nails, Survive. LP edition of 500 copies on black vinyl. HoRD is the solo project of Bordeaux-based synthwave producer Sebastien Carl. Started in 2014, Sebastien has proven himself to be able to gather a cult fan-base around his creation in a short time, collaborating with artists as Hante, Winter Severity Index and Black Bug and performing live in most European countries. Debuted by Antoni Maiovvi and Vercetti Technicolor's Giallo Disco, an EP on SNTS' Sacred Court and a second full-length on Avant! have followed. Bodies is his third album and it shows eight new passages that take HoRD's distinguishing features one step further once more. Ethereal synths matching deep analogue beats, veiled vocals speaking of visions, memories, meaning and failing. Synthwave sounds like a soundtrack from the 80's meet electro and techno mechanical rhythms along a stream of tracks that almost have no name so that the listener can just let them flow and flow with them, taking a journey away from the present time and into an abstract, dream-like modern dimension where the misty and the solid are one.