Dinosaur on Fire

After a six year hiatus, Florida synthwave artist Dinosaur on Fire is back with his sophomore album, "Populous Romantique."  His musical instincts are still intact, crafting songs that feel like the soundtrack to flying over some futuristic vista at night, neon buildings and technological squalor everywhere, but there's a more expansive and epic, and at time almost vaudevillian, vibe this time around.  It's like visiting a new world.  Listen to "Romance V" below and get the cassette here via Ghost Diamond.

Peach & Plum

Tech Honors is a performer/electronic musician/synthesizer enthusiast from Philadelphia.  He's already given us one album of the year contender with Dinosaur On Fire's "Sleep Moon Voyage," and is now upping the ante with his crazy-sampling. goopy and sloppy synth-project Peach & Plum.  He describes it as "a noise/synthpop album that abstractly tells the story of some idiot, bored at work, zoning in and out, daydreaming about being on a tropical vacation."  New album "Archipelago 3.0" is available here.  Pay what you want and listen to "Speed of Zen" below.