With ‘Out of Nowhere’, Split Vision bring back that shimmering synth-melancholy that once dominated the European charts – and bring it into the present with modern clarity. The Swedish duo, whose roots stretch back to the 1980s, audibly draw on the melodic tradition of Alphaville, Erasure, the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode, without succumbing…
Kategorie: Band
The End (Album) – kamikaze
Jessi and Flo start where other bands would have long since fallen silent: at the moment of near-surrender. From this threshold, they craft an album that does not give in to resignation, but takes a stand. Their self-defined ‘Soft Riot Pop’ is not a style, but a gesture of resistance – a tension between fragile…
Alchemy and the Flower – Moon and Aries
Alchemy and the Flower opens like an atmospheric threshold — a place where organic guitar lines thread themselves through understated, almost weightless electronics, as if both elements were feeling their way toward each other rather than meeting outright. The vocals drift in from somewhere slightly out of frame, close enough to register as presence, yet…
Once and for All – Split Vision
With “Once and for All”, Split Vision deliver a synth-pop moment that blurs the line between genuine emotion and artificial intimacy so thoroughly that you inevitably lose yourself in this state of limbo. The production relies on 80s-tinged synth pads that glow warmly, whilst beneath them a modern, almost clinical precision pulses. The result is…
Fallout – kamikaze
“Fallout” feels like a state that slowly creeps into your body until you realise you’ve long since been breathing in a different atmosphere. The song doesn’t open up space; it constricts it. Everything is reduced to a few precisely placed elements: guitars that shimmer like thin strands of electricity, synth pads that spread like a…
Backyard Astronauts – I WANT POETRY
With “Backyard Astronauts”, I WANT POETRY open a window onto those bountiful summers when a garden was enough to step into the universe. The German indietronica duo thus taps into a cultural mood that is currently flaring up everywhere: Artemis II euphoria, Ryan Gosling’s interstellar tale of friendship, a collective gaze upwards – away from…
