Glacial synth-pop perfection With the release of new album Matters, Brighton-based outfit Fröst have reached a particular milestone on their continuing musical journey into transcendental pop. Consisting of French-Swedish sound artist Johanna Bramli (vocalist for Stereolab offshoot Imitation Electric Piano) … Read More

Dancepop deconstructed Caroline McLavy emerged during a particularly fervent period of the grassroots electronic music scene. She’s graced the stage at a variety of electronic music events, including the 2017 Silicon Dreams Festival, where her emphatic vocal style and confident … Read More

Iconic synth-pop tune gets a modern interpretation Attempting contemporary arrangements of classic synth-pop songs is always a daunting task. There’s always a danger that it will fall into parody or fail to do justice to the original. Yet, when the … Read More

Chamber pop perfection It seems like a gulf of time since Princess Chelsea’s last studio album outing The Great Cybernetic Depression graced us with its presence. We summed up the 2015 album in our review at the time as “…a … Read More

Light from darkness… Thoughtful, introspective tunes appear to be Autorotation’s speciality – something which TEC first picked up on last year when we first encountered the band care of ‘Swamped’. Autorotation were a continuation from an earlier combo known as … Read More