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Electro Pop

Laptop Singers appeal to the loveless in their smooth electro-pop hit, Are You Ready for Love? Featuring Roger Arvidson

Posted on 30 June 2022

The Swedish electro-pop duo, Laptop Singers, got even more lavish with the soul in their latest single, Are You Ready for Love?, Featuring Roger Arvidson.

It easily parallels Elton John’s song with the same title for the soul it spills, but it is so much more than your average “everyone be happy summer single”. The gentle protest against cheap thrills shows compassion for the endemic of the defiantly loveless.

The sultry, smoothed electro-pop ballad taps into the modern issue of rejecting lasting affection for meaningless gratification with a classic touch while the self-produced single indoctrinates the lush electronic textures brought about by this era.

The brother duo, consisting of Lars and Per Andersson, have had 30 years of Swedish pop practice. By the time they got round to penning Are You Ready for Love and bringing it to life as a courtesy of Roger Arvidson’s timelessly soulful pop vocals, they knew exactly how to hit the ground swooning.

Are You Ready for Love? is now available to stream on Spotify.

Check out Laptop Singers via their official website, Facebook and Instagram.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Maya Yenn shows us inside the distressing mentality of our overly busy humanity with ‘Better Luck Next Time’

Posted on 23 June 2022

After her astonishing single from March 2022 called ‘How Much Sadness Can You Swallow?‘, Maya Yenn shows us inside that aircraft that is sinking but finds one flyer lost inside a vortex that can’t save him with, ‘Better Luck Next Time‘.

Maya Yenn is a classy UK-based alternative dark-pop/Electro-pop singer-songwriter and music producer who blends in sweet textures of gloriously beautiful RnB.

”Written from the perspective of a young man who has prioritised his career above everything else, so much so, he’s still trying to get a report out while his plane is going down.” ~ Maya Yenn

Guiding us calmly into the airwaves above with her innovative beats, Maya Yenn is rather fantastic on a single that shows us that scary mentality that should shudder into the core of us all. With a genuine story that many have felt before or experienced in a relationship, this is a striking song sung with passion, that should show us that no job is worth your life.

”Maya grew up in rural Staffordshire before moving to London, having previously supported artists such as Dan Croll and Stealing Sheep as a teenager. She moved back to her parents’ Staffordshire home at the beginning of the pandemic and has continued to write and produce music from her childhood home.” ~ Maya Yenn

‘Better Luck Next Time‘ from UK-based Alt-pop/Electro-pop singer-songwriter and music producer Maya Yenn is a clear picture that carefully examines humankind’s self-destructive behaviour that is ultimately worrying for us all. Pondering on why so many decide to give their priceless souls away for relative peanuts, this is a fine track that shall have us all thinking deeper than before.

With her classy vocals that send us a light of truth like a superhero, you will feel like reaching out to those close ones who have perhaps taken things a bit too far for their own health to handle.

Listen up to this fascinating single on Spotify and see more on her IG page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Joyeur – How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything

Posted on 27 May 2022
Joyeur

LA-based electro-pop duo, Joyeur helped their fans get their body beats in their intricately melodic and mindfully quintessential 10-track album, How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything.

With the opening single, Underbelly, which melds Big Black Delta electronic textures with Lady Gaga-level pop supreme style, you are instantly caught off-guard by Joyeur’s ability to shine through the pain lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally. The convergences of genres switch between amalgamations of hip hop, RnB, pop and electro from there on out; the only constant, the artists inclination to vocally shine light on dimmed perspectives.

As someone who knows exactly how it feels to spin a self-destructive narrative and watch the carnage amass around my own spited belligerence, How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything was so much more than just a feat of sonic serendipity.

There has never been such a succinct pop exposition on the necessity of self-awareness and accountability. Joyeur notably has what it takes to draw listeners into a world where they too see the beauty in life’s flaws through music.

The layers of synthetic elements don’t attempt anything all too grandiose between the tracks on the debut LP, leaving plenty of the sonic focus on the sanctity that streams from vocalist Joelle, who found the perfect match with her collaborator and producer, Anna Feller.

Here is what Joyeur had to say on their LP

“The album explores human themes of hopefulness, perseverance, self-acceptance and self-sabotage—experiences that have guided my writing from the beginning

I feel like I’ve torn the veil off my pain, fear, and insecurities to reveal a power that can be used for good. Empowering and accepting myself in this way feels like a gateway to letting love in and stopping undermining my own wants and needs. I can be my own worst enemy.”

The album is now available to stream on SoundCloud and Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

Partimama has made her empowering EDM pop debut with ‘Mamma Loves Ya’

Posted on 4 May 2022

Melbourne-based EDM pop artist, Partimama, has released her riotously catchy empowerment track, Mamma Loves Ya. With more soul than all of Ru Paul’s aural productions combined, it’s hard not to let the wholesomely uplifting anthem sink its teeth and drip-feed serotonin.

With the well-placed horn stabs and disco grooves around the unfaltering pounding bass, Partimama became the queer-celebrating icon we never knew we needed through her infectious extension of unconditional love. Even if you don’t get it from your mother, you’ve got an unlimited supply from this unity inspiring hit.

Like many of her fans, we couldn’t be happier that she stepped away from other people’s music and turned her attention to her own expression.

Mamma Loves Ya is now available to stream on SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Cinematic Irish dance-folk artist Dora Gola drops captivating 3rd single ‘Jestem’

Posted on 14 April 2022

With her full album ‘Dance with Danger‘ that is due for release in September 2022 almost ready for us to swim lovingly into, Dora Gola is quite sublime on her latest single that shall set you free on ‘Jestem‘.

Dora Gola is an incomparable Poland-born, Lahinch, Western Ireland-based dancer and electro-pop/folk singer-songwriter who makes that sensually stimulating and classy soundscape that will send you into a much better natural world.

”Jestem, meaning ‘I am’ in Polish, demonstrates the dark moon aspect of Dora Gola’s musicality.” ~ Dora Gola

After transmitting us into a beautiful forest to heal again on ‘Flying Tree‘, the supremely authentic Dora Gola is quite mesmerizing on her latest release that will have you floating freely away from any negative noise. Her graceful charm is rather special yet again, as she shows us that natural energy created with only honest intentions, is the most attractive thing you can ever experience.

‘Jestem‘ from Poland-born, Lahinch, Western Ireland-based dancer and electro-pop/folk artist Dora Gola, is one of the most outstanding singles of 2022 so far. There is so much to lather calmly into here, as we are taken into a delightful trance that sends us into a galaxy that was previously incomprehensible. She is like a kind angel that has been sent from another world, to lead us into a space that is safe and filled with only that sweet and innocent love.

This is a stupendous track that will have you pausing whatever you were doing before, to close your stressed eyes so that you may feel reinvigorated again.

Hear this enchanting new single on Spotify and see her vision on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Yajaira Eve has delivered her convectively sweet alt indie-pop track, Lover Like Me

Posted on 4 April 2022

Arizona-based indie-singer-songwriter Yajaira Eve, laid the soul and style on thick in her latest RnB pop single, Lover Like Me, which manages to keep the vibe of the track sweet while wrestling with convictive lyrics that go straight for the jugular on the types that always think they can do better while being hilariously blind to their flaws.

The individuality in the slightly off-kilter indie dance-pop production and the playful polyphonic tones pull together around the stellar songwriting that proves just how the 21-year-old singer-songwriter managed to become a platinum record artist so close to the inception of her career. We can’t wait to hear what follows or see how far she gets with her incandescently authentic talent.

Lover Like Me is now available to stream via YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Bearbot break free in their latest electro-pop single, Loose Leash

Posted on 18 March 2022

The New York electro-pop singer & producer duo, Bearbot is set to unleash their first EP as a reformed outfit. After producing five albums and touring through NYC’s most notorious clubs’ solo, Euna Kho brought onboard Ariana Moline. Based on the standout single from the Canis EP, Loose Leash, her glossy pop vocals were the perfect fit for the cathartic sonic bliss that is curated into arresting hip hop tinted grooving hooks and transcending melodies.

It was a bold and risky move to sample dog barks in with the 80s synthy notes, Thriller-Esque beats and Ariana’s airy yet ardent timbre, but it paid off massively by bringing a new context to this freedom advocating hit.

Loose Leash will officially release on March 18th; you can check it out for yourselves on SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The UK singer-songwriter, Mea has released her sad-girl-empowering debut single, Sad Girl Vibes

Posted on 25 February 2022

The up-and-coming independent alt-pop artist, Mea’s exceptionally promising debut single, Sad Girl Vibes, is everything that it metaphorically says on the tin, and so much more for the way it puts to shame toxic positivity tropes and empowers through resonance.

The artfully vulnerable release melds the moody beats with lighter textures and sensibilities to make it all too easy to get on the same wavelength as the UK-based singer-songwriter and her trip-hoppy, indie RnB nuanced track. Any fans of Warpaint will want to pay attention.

The bruisingly honest lyrics in the earworm stand as the ultimate testament to the fact that just because someone errs on the side of melancholy, that doesn’t make their psyche synonymous with obnoxious misery. If anyone can tempt people into owning their sad girl vibes, it is Mea.

You can vibe with Mea’s debut single, Sad Girl Vibes, for yourselves by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

Mavi Veloso delivered a vindicating hit of urban electro euphoria with ‘Names’

Posted on 19 February 2022

Debut albums are scarcely as promising as the Brazil-born, Netherlands-based artist Mavi Veloso’s debut LP, Travesti Biológica, which hit the airwaves on January 21st, 2022. The LP celebrates the beauty of trans and non-binary bodies while making no bones about pushing the envelope in a more progressive direction. The mash of pop, trap and futurism is an indulgent throw-back to the electroclash era and simultaneously a definitive milestone in the evolution of electro-pop that breaks the heteronormative mould.

The standout single, Names, is a fierce electro-pop anthem that bites back and speaks out to anyone in the queer community that has felt the sting of derogatory and disgustingly dim remarks. You couldn’t ask for a more vindicating hit of urban electro euphoria. Mavi Veloso has exactly what it takes to become the Peaches of our generation. We are more than here for it.

Names is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Embrace the chaos with Aimee Saturne’s alchemically ethereal dark pop single, Edge of the World

Posted on 15 January 2022

Dark pop alchemist, Aimee Saturne, proves that she’s still LA’s supreme in her latest single, Edge of the World, which incorporates her usual sultry air while encapsulating the same sense of trepidation that has been gripping us all a little too hard as of late.

Edge of the World finds an ethereal way to call out to anyone who is feeling trapped on our hell-scape of a planet where we can’t quite escape the unjustness or find an even footing within it.

The single starts with her smoother than smooth vocal timbre atop muted guitars; when the momentum begins to build in the electro-pop hit, there’s a tumultuous nature in spite of the arrestive pull of the moody melodies. Aimee Saturne deserves to be equally as revered as Billie Eilish, St Vincent, and every other pop visionary that is taking the future of pop into their deft hands. With her debut album currently in production, she is definitely one to watch.

Edge of the World is now available to stream via Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast