“Synth-pop” Reviews

The best way to sum up The White Songbook is as a consummation.

While still a magnificent feast for the ears, every song on The Tick Tock Treasury reminds me of past Joy Electric albums.

Ronnie’s made a gutsy move on this one, pushing on with his own musical vision and remaining steadfast to his spiritual beliefs.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, Joy Electric’s music brings back a sort of wistfulness for more innocent, carefree days.

I would strongly recommend it to anyone who likes techno-dance-computer-music-video-game soundtrack-sounding music.

If this does turn out to be the band’s last release, then it is a good note to go out on.

Every time I put on the album, I find myself coming under its spell just as surely as when I first listened to it.

One of the most original and compelling albums, all artistic obscurity and nonsensical double-speak aside, that I’ve heard in a long time.

Even the most starry-eyed of songs are coated with a thin layer of wistfulness and nostalgia.

This is an electro-pop record that doesn’t properly belong to any movement or time period.

A two-disc compilation that serves as an excellent introduction to Saint Etienne’s pristine, immaculate dance pop.

The debut full-length from The Faint’s bassist is full of interesting ideas. Perhaps too many, even.

The genius here is that, rather than making these songs into goth ballads or melodramatic affairs, they keep them short, sweet, and best of all, catchy.

This feels like a schizophrenic band desperately in need of a psychiatrist to help cure their many personalities.

Sufjan Stevens displays a real knack for taking his arsenal of abstract sounds and letting them go wild without damaging his music’s integrity.

My first impression of Soviet’s sound was a mixture of Depeche Mode and Devo.

They’re a rock band intent on ripping the entrails out of their Korgs, producing the skronkiest, bleepiest sounds they can — and getting booties to shake and bodies to move across the land.

The songs fall in the verse-chorus-verse pattern in its purest and catchiest form.

This is a very refreshing record.

Dance House Children sounds exactly like what you’d expect a pre-Joy Electric project to sound like.