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Clinic :: Fantasy Island

Clinic :: Fantasy Island

In this sterile brushed steel and gleaming plastic environment, underneath the tangles of tubing and wires and chirping electronic devices operating at their own rhythms, below the readouts and blinking lights, beats a mighty analog heart.

Dan Deacon :: Mystic Familiar

Dan Deacon :: Mystic Familiar

If you grew up on videogames, the frenetic multilayered synths will sound like the final moments of a big boss battle. If not, it sounds like a bunch of live Casio keyboards being sent down the garbage disposal. In a good way.

Velvet Negroni :: Neon Brown

Velvet Negroni :: Neon Brown

Awkward jams that nonetheless stick in your head on repeat, with highly-detailed production and a decidedly noir feel.

Hot Chip :: A Bathfull of Ecstasy

Hot Chip :: A Bathfull of Ecstasy

At one time, electronic soul felt like the future of music, but here is Hot Chip doing just the same thing in 2019 and it feels nostalgic.