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Starleen Turn Evolution // Rebirth: A Lynchian Alt-Pop Ritual for Souls Surviving the Machine

Posted on 29 May 2026

Starleen, the electronic alt-pop duo based in Dallas, Texas, opened Evolution // Rebirth like a forgotten piece of Lynchian cinema, with an official music video that feels almost macabre in its dystopian disquiet. From the first frame, the single establishes a world where rebirth arrives through unease, metallic pressure, and bodies moving against the architecture of control.

Tension keeps creeping into the production as ethereal tones collide with harsh industrial-adjacent electronic motifs. Droning reverberations enmesh with scintillating sources of sonic light while the duo assert a hymnal, arcane vocal presence into the single, turning the track into an altar for transformation with cinematic severity. The arrangement feels ceremonial, bruised by the machinery of modern life, yet its ethereal centre keeps reaching towards catharsis.

The music video reimagines the aesthetics of The Matrix through an arthouse lens; delicate dance choreography juxtaposes cold, harsh cityscapes with grace as the ultimate exposition on what it means to keep your soul alive in the harsh reality of our world. Through its noir-lit futurism, industrial ache, and spectral alt-pop intensity, Evolution // Rebirth becomes a statement on survival, growth, evolution, and the spiritual act of respawning with more light than the world tried to leave you with.

Starleen Said:

“This song paired with its visuals really sets the tone for the full-length coming out later this year. After years of working together, we believe we have finally found the sound for us. Visually, we are leaning more towards having other artists tell the story through their talents. We were amazed by what Evelyn Phan brought on set that day, and during the rain! Keanu Cordero directed while Ryan Ritchie handled the cinematography.

Both Zachary and I feel that this song, along with the rest of the album, is finally telling a story we’ve been trying to tell for some time now. We feel optimistic about the future and are grateful for the experience of creating art with amazing people.”

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Evolution // Rebirth is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. For the full experience, watch the official music video on YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Finley Clark delivered Riot Grrrl 2.0 with the siren-esque industrial pop earworm, Berlin Baby

Posted on 29 April 2026

Finley Clark dropped the ultimate siren alt-rock anthem with her latest hypersonically hooked hit, Berlin Baby. Delivering a sound salacious enough to be more in line with the wares of an underground sex shop than a record store, Clark reached the epitome of raunchy filth with her electrifyingly infectious standout single that could easily replace Nine Inch Nails’ Closer on the dancefloor of goth clubs as the ultimate single to writhe to.

By fusing the danceability of dark electro pop with the attitude and angst of alt-rock, the trailblazing artist used the kinetic power of the release to deliver a message that Kathleen Hanna would undoubtedly approve of. Berlin Baby stomps forward on aggressive glam-industrial guitars, heavy electronic bass, icy verses, and theatrical choruses, turning female rage, ambition, and power into high fashion provocation.

There are traces of Marilyn Manson’s Mobscene in the dirty theatricality, Amy Lee in the haunted vocal force, and Panic! At The Disco in the grandiose drama, while Finley Clark keeps the release sharpened with her own anti-patriarchal venom.

Raised in a German-speaking environment and later studying German literature, Clark threaded late-60s counterculture, feminist history, and Berlin iconography into the DNA of the single. With producer Mark Haugegaard Nielsen, she built a neon-lit cathedral of the bold sonic world of her upcoming album, Illumination, through Berlin Baby.

Berlin Baby is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

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

Fur Trapper served postmodern ache through razor-sharp refrains in the frenetic synth pop hit, ‘Never Enough’

Posted on 16 November 2025

Fur Trapper hit like a strobe-lit wrecking ball with Never Enough, a frenetic synth pop blast from the Y2K past. If you couldn’t get enough of Shiny Toy Guns, Metric, and Kill Hannah, your serotonin levels will spike with the sheer velocity of the track’s hyper-aesthetic sound design, as it pummels euphoria into your synapses. Through feisty-with-futurism vocals that match the voltage of the post-punk and industrial-pop-soaked instrumentals, Lisa Rieffel pulls you straight into a vortex of psychological disquiet, spiked with razor-sharp reflections on how disillusionment drags you under.

Fulfilment flickers on the horizon, unreachable. Never Enough catches that ache and wires it into a hypercharged groove that bruises as it glows. Rieffel’s performance is urgent, wired, and impossible to ignore, gripping you by the collar and dragging you through a sonic world built on overstimulation and cold clarity. It’s a fever-pitch anthem for the modern consumer burnout.

The surreal visualiser, written and directed by Rieffel, intensifies the punch. Constructed through large-scale greenscreen, the video plunges you into a dream state of digital distortion and existential static. Nods to Wings of Desire ground the surrealism in vulnerability while keeping one eye fixed on the emptiness stitched into the modern condition.

As the centrepiece of her upcoming debut album SUPER NOW, Never Enough makes no attempt to sugar-coat. It injects its tension direct to the bloodstream.

Never Enough is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Paisley Heart & n3 weaponise rave as resistance in their dark techno juggernaut, War Outside

Posted on 21 October 2025

The mechanical volition of industrial pop thrashes against dark techno in War Outside, a harbingering anthem born from the collaboration between Paisley Heart and n3. With the socially aware conviction of Atari Teenage Riot, the progression-rich release toys with rhythmic pulses as it flows through a myriad of stylistic shifts instead of simply ushering listeners through the usual build-ups and drops.

What takes shape is a juggernaut of a vignette that viscerally encapsulates the dissonance of feeling your body beat in sync with the music while knowing the doomsday clock is inching closer to midnight — and that hand is moving even faster for marginalised groups.

If the likes of Grendel, God Module and Suicide Commando already stalk your playlists, make space for Paisley Heart as he amplifies the voices of the disenfranchised until they’re impossible to tune out. Written in response to rising right-wing politics, the devastation in Palestine, and the daily attacks on queer and trans lives, War Outside reframes the rave as both protest and sanctuary. Beyond the studio, Paisley Heart has taken the message to the streets with signs, microphones and flags, embodying the track’s defiant vision: that the dancefloor isn’t just a place for release, it’s a space reclaimed by those fighting for survival. It’s where rage becomes rhythm, and collective resistance pulses harder than the kick drum.

Through sheer sonic intent, War Outside turns music into protest and protest into art, refusing to let the noise fade into the background.

War Outside is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

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

JeezJesus Soundtracked Capitalist Collapse with Electro-Punk Vitriol in Work to Die

Posted on 8 September 2025
Work to Die by JeezJesus

The London-based aural antagonist JeezJesus fired all the right shots in his latest single, Work to Die, capturing the malaise slicked across a contemporary society waking up to the grim reality that your labour is nothing more than a means of survival and capital for the elite. It’s an irrefutable recognition of how the dream of a comfortable life, padded with small luxuries to make the grind worthwhile, has drifted so far from reach it might as well be on Mars for younger generations.

Soaking the capitalism conversation with nuance while giving an outlet to anyone too exhausted to cage their anger, JeezJesus turned frustration into an essential soundtrack. The single carries the same weight as releases from Bob Vylan, Hyphen, and Kid Kapichi, while carving out its own industrial electro punk identity. It’s a riot of dark, synth-driven rage where the infectious cadence of techno and synth-pop euphoria collides with a confessional warning: grafting harder will never break the cage, exploitation keeps us on our knees no matter how high we strain to rise.

As his fourth release of the year, Work to Die extends the big, anthemic synth-pop direction of his earlier work, now cut with sharper alternative rock edges. The tongue-in-cheek delivery sharpens the sense of solidarity, reminding the disillusioned and overworked that they aren’t isolated in their struggles. It’s bitter, biting, and unflinchingly unifying, a rallying cry for anyone stuck in the wreckage of austerity.

Work to Die is now available on all major streaming platforms – including Bandcamp.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Staytus Draws Blood from the Alt-Rock Circuit in the Vengeful Industrial Pop Storm, Headache

Posted on 23 July 2025

There’s no missing the bruised intensity that Staytus wrenched from the ether with her latest single, Headache. Synthesised razor-wire rips across the track with the bite of industrial pop and the pulse of alt-rock’s vengeful heart, creating a soundscape that hits like a radioactive juggernaut out for retribution.

Vindication runs riot through Headache, which uses scathing energy as its primary currency, bleeding that fury through each progression until the lighter breaks only serve to sharpen the impact of the next onslaught. Even the moments of respite can’t conceal the storm, they simply make the next detonation land harder, reminding you that catharsis can be engineered, metric, and merciless.

The project behind the carnage, Staytus—alias of recording prodigy Sam Grundemann—continues to stake her claim on the future of industrial music by making art from the volatility of toxic experience. Produced by Sean Beavan of Nine Inch Nails notoriety, Headache marks a step further into Staytus’ arsenal of caustic sonics and raw honesty, following up her Twisted Frames series and sophomore album, Wasteland of Broken Hearts. No matter how mechanical the sound design or relentless the energy, Staytus never loses the thread of emotional resonance, making the chaos unforgettable.

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

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Mimi Satanistá Poured Napalm Over Neurodivergent Fury in the Industrial Glitch Sermon ‘RAGE IS A RITUAL’

Posted on 10 May 2025
Mimi Satanistá

RAGE IS A RITUAL by Mimi Satanistá is a caustic cut above the rest of the plastic posturing of industrial pop. Raw nerves were threaded through the glitched-out waves in the progressions as the spoken word poetry sees venom cascade over the frenetic pulse of the adrenaline in the track. If you love artists in the same vein as Poppy, ANGELSPIT, and Vicious Precious, RAGE IS A RITUAL will dig into your desire to unchain your rage, allow it to tear through your skin and reach an outlet as it flows through the fervour of the rhythmic volition.

As a Mancunian, I can’t help but adore the way Preston’s Mimi Satanistá allows her North West roots to pull through in the cadence of her spoken word verses; there’s no pretence or assimilation here—just one unreckonable force moving to the vanguard of the industrial glitchwave scene with her refusal to contort herself for commercial potential to the expense of her authentic expression.

The centrepiece of the upcoming TRANSMISSION_FROM_THE_VOID EP plays out like a signal to the deviant and displaced. After surviving a psychosis diagnosis in 2022, Mimi found her voice in the chaos and tore through the static to build a lifeline for anyone still submerged in white noise. This is outsider music at its most confrontational and redemptive.

RAGE IS A RITUAL is now available to stream on all major platforms; discover your preferred way to listen via the artist’s official website. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Ghost Nation’s ‘Last Words’: A Dark Pop Mirror Reflecting the Tightrope of Truth

Posted on 7 April 2025

Ghost Nation’s latest dark pop single, Last Words, opens with disquieting, carnivalesque scintillation, quickly establishing an atmosphere thick with tension. The distorted effects enveloping the vocals mirror how fractured we can become when communication is reduced to a battle of reticence and manipulation rather than genuine connection. It’s proof of Ghost Nation’s adept grasp of lyrical themes, vividly amplifying the intense narrative beneath the track’s surface.

There’s swathes of desolation oscillating throughout the darkwave and industrial-infused pop production, emphasising the idea that no man is an island—we’re all adrift if we lose the ability to tether ourselves with truthful expression. But truth itself can cut deeply, and Last Words provides ample space to ruminate on the weight every syllable carries.

Formed by vocalist and producer Tomas Vasseur and producer Micke Berg, Ghost Nation has cultivated a globally resonant sound since 2016, accumulating over eight million streams by fusing alt electronica with cinematic arrangements. Their seasoned approach is apparent in every motif of Last Words, particularly in the dynamic interplay between innocence and strength.

By intertwining rhythmic urgency, playful experimentation, and philosophical depth, Ghost Nation reveals the fragile tightrope we all navigate with words—where one slip can irreversibly alter our connections.

Last Words is now available to stream on all major platforms, including SoundCloud. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast