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GLEET’s ‘Strident’ Is Industrial Post-Punk Transmitted Through Brutalist Working Class Static

Posted on 6 July 2026

Hitting play on Strident, the latest release by GLEET, is the equivalent of blowing the dust off a long-lost early industrial post-punk relic and instantly being sucked into the EBM drive of the release, which leaves a reel of brutalist working-class imagery spinning before your eyes as a bleak whirling dervish.

If you like getting your body beat to gothically draped protest punk rhythms and snarled vocals as they cut across vintage sound clips of the public making their contribution to archival history, Strident leaves nothing to be desired. If you stripped the romanticism and Euro gloss off Poison Ivy and injected caustic Skinny Puppy debased energy, you would be left with Strident. There’s an authenticity to the rusty and raw ambience of the single, which is becoming increasingly rare to find from new names in the industry, but GLEET have been cutting their teeth for decades.

Gregor Former and Sam Neal first began twisting songs out of life in a Little Venice off-licence in the 90s, before years of marathon jam sessions, imaginary bands and the eventual birth of Scrunt led to the project taking shape. With Michael Chilokoa and Kevin Mertens also threaded into the story, GLEET have turned friendship, absurdity and anti-commercial noise into a fully realised sonic language. Now, with more than 140 unreleased songs still lurking in the vault, Strident proves there is plenty of societal rust to scrape loose.

 Strident is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

AUTOTAPINOSI Pulled Tamta Beyond EDM Pop and Into the Theatre of Gothic Avant-Garde Provocation

Posted on 12 April 2026

With an aesthetic as unsettling as the mise en scène in The Platform, dressed in gothic couture and avant-garde kink, Tamta arrives in AUTOTAPINOSI with the kind of force that makes the whole release feel bigger than a single. The official video pulling in close to 200k YouTube streams shortly after its debut says plenty, but the real charge comes from the track itself. Produced by TEO.x3 and written with Anastasios Tsordas and Barbara Argyrou, AUTOTAPINOSI lands as an EBM protest hit that lashes out against subjugation and society’s inclination to diminish the self-worth of women.

The retro analogue synths share Tamta’s sirening energy as they become a livewire current in a track built on industrial, electronic and post-punk tension. It’s a riotous reckoning of a hit that transcends the usual confines of pop, pulling the phenomenon of a cultural force into the orbit of performance art in its purest sense. Tamta places erotic agency, ownership and self-definition right at the centre, and she does it with a stare so unwavering it could make half the pop landscape buckle.

Her legacy already towers, from major fashion editorials to Pride stages and headline shows, yet AUTOTAPINOSI feels like another sharp ascent. She’s built the brand, she’s built the legacy, and frankly, if she started a cult, I’d be one of the first in line.

AUTOTAPINOSI is now available on all major streaming platforms. For the full experience, you’re going to want to head over to YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Jady electrified darkness and catharsis with their elementally intense LP of genre defiance, ‘Silver’

Posted on 14 October 2025

Starting with an archaically spectral intro single that sounds like it could spin from Norman Bates’ turntable, Jady hurl listeners straight into their subversively experimental world with Silver, their third studio album and most audacious creative statement to date. The Columbus alt duo, Jarrett Doherty and Ashton Bergdorf, have steadily built their reputation on fearless genre-hopping and electrifying live shows across continents, and this release feels like the natural combustion point of that ascent.

Crafted during relentless touring and written with heavyweight collaborators like Curtis Peoples, Sam Tinnesz, and Erik Ron, Silver sees Jady probing at imperfection, honesty, and self-discovery with unfiltered ferocity, all while sharpening their ability to turn existential chaos into anthemic catharsis.

The record wastes no time in pulling you into its clutches. The first full track, REANIMATE, welds the visceralism of rock-licked industrial electronica to glossy pop melodies that grip your synapses with kinetically tactile energy. It barrels forward with mechanised momentum and leaves you braced for the next spiral of intensity. From there, the 14-track LP keeps shifting shape, veering through rushes of drum n bass, stark interludes of classical strings, and vocals that morph from fragile vibrato to unhinged screamo. Across it all, darkness hums as the only consistent thread, a current that electrifies the album’s beating heart.

Each track serves a deliberate purpose, free from the kind of self-satisfied avant-garde posturing that often clogs experimental music. WHITE CASKET drags alt-rap into the fold, SIPHON pulses with EBM emotivity, and TMSIDK pitches somewhere between the primal stomp of White Stripes and the anarchic bite of Die Antwoord. Then there’s LANDMINES, stripping everything back to raw emotional gravity. Through all these transformations, Jady remain unflinching in their mission to deliver catharsis through sheer volition.

Silver lands like a juggernaut’s blow to the senses, a rare example of experimentalism forged entirely in service of something human. If you love the emotive subversions  of Sleep Token, don’t sleep on this release.

Silver is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Tyomlee Scorched Synthpop with Carnal Euphoria in His Queer Anthem, ‘Like a Fire’

Posted on 31 August 2025

If you like your synthpop hot, scorch your playlists with the heat in Like a Fire, the latest single from Tyomlee. The euphorically carnal earworm slips into uncharted intersections between house, EBM, and synthpop while strobing neon synaesthesia through the taut contours of the queer pop anthem. Its pulse is primal, its atmosphere feverishly intoxicating, and its resonance lies in how unashamedly it refuses to obey convention.

Clearly, Tyomlee disrupts more than binaries through identity; through their discography, they spark a seductive sonic signature that thrives on pure, unfiltered expression. Like a Fire is less a track designed for easy consumption and more a manifestation of the hazy transcendence born in underground club culture. It’s sweat, lust, and liberation, stitched together in a rejection of aural heteronormativity.

As a queer artist, Tyomlee has made it their mission to fold personal experiences of identity, passion, and transformation into sound. With Like a Fire, they celebrate desire and the burning intensity of self-expression while affirming solidarity with the trans community.

Like a Fire is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Spyndycyt existentially unravelled over a four-to-the-floor Avant-Garde beat in ‘I Don’t Wanna Do This Anymore’

Posted on 12 October 2024

Spyndycyt’s latest single, ‘I Don’t Wanna Do This Anymore,’ amps up the sonic signature scribed through his prior releases, giving the electrifying track a pulse of EBM while keeping true to his erratically eccentric vocal style as he unravels over a narrative of existentialism and frayed with chaos strobing synth lines.

As quirky and kinetically rhythmic as Neuroticfish and The Gothsicles, as experimental as, well, it’s pretty hard to draw a comparison in that domain, this latest single from Spyndycyt proves how succinctly he can command a four-to-the-floor beat that injects symphonic elements of the 90s rave scene.

It’s a broadsiding tour de force that is undoubtedly as effective at altering your brain chemistry as electroshock therapy. Bite down on this exploration of mistrust, betrayal, and the crushing, ever-growing suspicion that all your deepest and unspoken fears are true.

Contrasting the dark thematic undercurrents of being a terminal disappointment, the solo artist ensures that I Don’t Wanna Do This Anymore oscillates through euphorically rhythmic hedonism to sugar the pill you will want to swallow time and time again.

I Don’t Wanna Do This Anymore is now available to stream on SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Laptop Singers captured the quintessence of Swedish Pop with ‘Scandinavian Home’

Posted on 4 September 2024

Laptop Singers synthesised the rhythmically hooked quintessence of Swedish Pop into their latest album, The Battle for the Future of Pop. If the soul-scintillating track, Scandinavian Home, is anything to go by, the battle has already been won and Laptop Singers are sitting pretty at the helm of the genre.

By fusing the perpetually stylistic sonic signature of Kraftwerk and the chilly chromatics of Covenant into a perennial dance-pop earworm with post-punk-esque guitars, a pulse-pounding beat and vocals that make you want to melt through the flawlessly pitched seraphic harmonies, Laptop Singers carved out one of the most affecting pop anthems of 2024 with Scandinavian Home.

There’s absolutely nothing guilty about this funk and groove-slicked in all the right places from the Swedish brother duo, Per and Lars Andersson; it’s edgy enough to be a hit in the indie and alt-scene while giving mainstream pop fans all the dance-worthy euphony they could possibly ask for.

Scandinavian Home is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Spyndycyt took synth-pop to visceral new heights with his introspection-fuelled hit, Change Me from the Inside

Posted on 29 July 2024

The electronica avant-gardist, Spyndycyt, has struck again with the release of his sophomore synth-pop single, Change Me from the Inside. If Frank Zappa had lived long enough to experiment with 8-bit-adjacent production, he would have undoubtedly orchestrated something as ludicrously electrifying as this infectiously unhinged anthem, which almost registers as a lament from a painfully self-aware transhuman organism 100 years in the future.

Change Me from the Inside reverberates with all-too-relatable electro-pop insanity, echoing New Order in its kinetic rhythms which pulsate through the chaos stirred by synthesising a raw emotional undercurrent into tides of merciless electronica which shimmer into distortion with every crescendo.

Each beat and melody reflect a different facet of self-discovery and confrontation from an artist who fearlessly never filters his expression to become an advocate of introspective candour and to perfectly encapsulate his message that lifting the veil on your own psyche is never a comfortable process.

The spontaneously materialised lyrics efficaciously testify to how wrestling with your own autonomy will leave you battle scared; the teeth of self-remonstration and loathing will always sink in, yet, chances are you’ll also meet your own indomitable spirit and come out stronger after the encounter.

Change Me From the Inside was officially released on July 21; stream the single on SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

80s euphoria grooved back around through Electraverb’s debut LP, NEON

Posted on 23 July 2024

In their debut LP, NEON, the synthpop duo, Electraverb, crafted a euphoric gateway to the 80s dancefloors. I Feel the Music, the standout single, ensnares through delicious grooves, neon-dripping chords, and sensuously magnetic vocal lines; each element ties together not just to revisit an aural era but to fuel it with contemporary fervour.

From the ashes of their previous project, Stoneblue, the founding members, Chris and Mazdak, seamlessly transitioned their synergy, catchy melodies and intricate guitar work which resounded through London’s synthpop scene in the 90s into their new project which marks their maturity as earworm architects.

The addition of esteemed backing vocalists Jo Garland and Shirley Lewis, known for their work with icons like George Michael and Elton John, is a testament to Electraverb’s determination to push their sound to the heights celebrated by their influences.

If you envisioned an aural love child of The Human League, Kraftwerk and George Michael, you’d conjure a reflection of the scintillating soul which oscillates through I Feel the Music which delivers hypnotic rhythms as the harsh snares pierce the lush reverb under the harmonised to the nines vocals.

NEON was officially released on June 14th; stream the LP in full via Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Novit Terminus Orchestrated A Darkwave Descent Into a Euphoric Descent With ‘Take Me Down’

Posted on 15 June 2024

Take Me Down by Novit Terminus plunges listeners into unchartered intersections of EBM, Post-Punk, Darkwave, and Techno and drenches its audience in an infectiously rhythmic rendition of sonic Jungian shadow work that is poised to become a sanctuary for darkwave electronica fans seeking liberation from the dark reverberations of their own minds.

Fans of VNV Nation, Ari Mason, Electro Spectre, and Black Nail Cabaret will find themselves irresistibly drawn to this release, which offers a cathartic outlet for emotions as blackened as the industrial-tinged, Eastern-rhythm-influenced progressions.

Each element of Take Me Down attests to Novit Terminus’ cultivated skills as a sonic architect. The euphoria-inducing crescendos, tension-fraught build-ups, and spectral whispers of philosophical poetry come together seamlessly. The result is a track that permeates the soul as deeply as the rhythmic pulses permeate the body.

Novit Terminus’ return to music after a successful tenure in historic preservation and higher education is marked by a profound exploration of trauma and recovery. This project is not just a return to form but a therapeutic journey through shadow work, making Take Me Down a significant and poignant piece in the artist’s discography.

Take Me Down was officially released on May 31; stream the single on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Skimo followed the muse of dystopia into their most scintillating release to date, Let It Fly, ft Ash

Posted on 11 January 2024

Skimo’s seminal single, Let It Fly, featuring the hauntingly introspective vocals of Ash, is a mesmerising journey into the depths of EBM. Taken from the LP, Connected Memory, the single begins with a cascade of shimmering reverb, wrapping around the striking non-lexical vocals of Ash. This introduction draws listeners into a world where darkness and mechanical synthetics mercilessly construct a platform around the raw vulnerability within Ash’s vocals.

The electronic beats, meticulously crafted, ensure a deep immersion into Skimo’s artistic vision allowing Let It Fly to unravel as a narrative painted in sound; a vignette which portrays the relentlessness of our evolving for the worse climate. The track resonates with a sense of harbingering urgency, which filters from the progressions into a trepidation shared with the listener. The result is a piece that not only captivates but also invites them to delve deeper into the themes Skimo explores. For any electronica fans who want their eyes wide open to the world, to lock horns with the chaos, the Connected Memory LP is as essential as they come.

Stream the Connected Memory LP in full on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast