Hollywood Burns

Horror scores and techno just mix okay!  I don't know why they do, but they do.  Anyway, here's some new horror movie inspired synth wave techno music from Paris artist Hollywood Burns.  Listen to "Carnal Encounters of the Third Kind" below and get "Invaders" here or here from Blood Music.

Friday Horror Trailer - The Grim Reaper (aka Anthropophagous)

Echo Ladies

When you're an artist combining elements and sounds of dreampop, shoegaze, and post punk, you've pretty much already got me eating from the palm of your hand.  And so we have Swedish trio Echo Ladies and their upcoming "Pink Noise" LP.  Listen to the swirl and reverb of "Bedroom" below and hear me swoon.  Then pre-order the album here from Sonic Cathedral or look for it in June.

Black Polygons

Here's some gorgeous and cinematic ambient electronic music from Parisian artist Black Polygons to help get you through this Thursday.  "Aricie" is the opening track to new album "Naïade," a short collection of swelling, haunting melancholy.  It's wonderful.  Listen below and get it here.

Michael Rault

I've seen Toronto's Michael Rault perform a couple of times in the past at SXSW, but unfortunately missed him this last go around.  And that's a real bummer too, because the new jams i've heard from the artist from his forthcoming "It's a New Day Tonight" LP are all excellent '60s/'70s inspired soft psych gems.  The latest is the AM radio indebted "Dream Song."  Listen below and get the LP from Wick Records/Daptone.

Jenny Hval

Norwegian artist Jenny Hval has been making interesting, avant garde pop for a few years now, and she's a got new EP headed our way next month on Sacred Bones.  "The Long Sleep" looks to be a shortened continuation of the experimental artist's explorations of sound and theme, a notion i'm all for after 2016's brilliant "Blood Bitch."  Listen to "Spells" below, a quasi-electro pop tune with flourishes of jazz and dreampop, and pre-order the record here.

Cold Cave

Thought it's been awhile since we last got a full-length LP from gothic synth pop band Cold Cave, and seemingly will be for awhile longer, the band has still released a fairly constant string of singles and such.  And i'll admit that this single format really works for them, each 3-5 minute burst of dark pop like an injection of oxytocin straight into my brain.  The band will be releasing the "You & Me & Infinity" EP in June, featuring last year's fantastic "Glory," as well as the equally fantastic title track.  Listen to it below and be sure to look for the record on Heartworm Press.

Gang Gang Dance

It's been seven years since we last heard from Gang Gang Dance, their "Eye Contact" LP being one of my favorite records of 2011.  Well, a lot of shit has happened since then, but judging by "Lotus," the airy, new wavey first single from upcoming album "Kazuashita," they haven't lost a step.  Listen to the song below snag the record in June on 4AD.

Henry Saiz & Band

Spanish artist Henry Saiz and his band spent the last two years travelling the world, writing and recording across the globe, taking influence from the all of the different places they visited and all of the different cultures they encountered in an attempt to create a kind of world pop album.  The result is new album "Human," out this week via Natura Sonoris.  It's a pretty ambitious project, and one that pulls its sound from several eras, genres, and styles, an eclectic musical opus.  Listen to "The Golden Cage (Dubai)" below and pre-order here.

Eels - Bone Dry

I haven't really paid much attention to long running alt-rock band Eels since 2005's sprawling "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations," though i still believe the group was responsible for two of the very best albums of the '90s and have made consistently good stuff ever since.  So i was a little surprised to find myself really digging on new song "Bone Dry" from the group's (or maybe just Mark "E" Everett's) new album "The Deconstruction."  The song grooves, and the accompanying animated video is fantastic.  Watch it below and get the album here.