#italo wave

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Beloved French pop band Yelle is about to embark on their new North American Club Party tour that will bring them to San Francisco late next month for three consecutive nights at the Rickshaw Stop joined by varying guests each night. It’s sure to be a sweaty dance affair as the duo drops their crisp modern dance pop and lively electro pop on us with much flamboyant energy. Rumors are afloat of a new album next year, but before that happens, Yelle is here with a new one off named Romeo via a music video replete with nostalgic vintage clips. A hint of Euro trance and plenty of Italo wave sleekness saturates Romeo. Let’s say we’re the Juliet to Yelle’s Romeo. Ticket info regarding Yelle’s Club Party tour can be found, here.

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Phoenix’s new album Ti Amo drops in a week, and it’s going to be a whole lot of fun, judging from what we’ve heard off of it so far. The French veterans say that their new ful length is inspired by summer and Italian disco. Goodbye Soleil follows on prior reveals J-Boy and the album’s title track. It’s a sun drenched slice of dreamy electronica and synthpop. Phoenix is really indulging in the French house aspect of their music with their recent releases. Goodbye Soleil quickly reminds me of M83′s recent album Junk and Daft Punk’s lighter, airier fare. Ti Amo will be out June 9th via Glassnote Records.

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I can’t get enough of the new Phoenix since it dropped yesterday. It’s literally left me smiling for hours on end. The French rock heroes are more lustrously vibrant than ever on J-Boy, a new wavey, italo disco-y, hyper jubilant, feverish glinting spectacular. It sparkles and twinkles, shimmers and swirls, twirling us around within its whirlpool of dizzying euphoria. J-Boy brings to mind some of M83′s tunes off recent album Junk. As it turns out, the long time, much loved French house purveyors have described their forthcoming album Ti Amo as being related to “summer and Italian discos”, so the M83 Junk comparison isn’t too far off the mark. A summer of effulgent italowave and retro disco sounds more than splendid to me. Ti Amo arrives on June 9th. 

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Today was a very fruitful day. I dug up quite a lot of jewels on my music discovering adventures outside of just sleuthing through the endless emails and submissions we receive. One such pearl that I encountered is a Parisian electronic musician named Tainsus, who harbors a strong penchant for 80′s synths and modern day samplers. Someone Who Looked Like You is his latest delectable concoction, and it’s absolutely sublime. Phoenix (particularly recent summer wavey Phoenix) meets 80′s synthwave and a dapper Electric Guest groove on the luxuriously smoldering, nostalgic simmering jam. Someone Who Looked Like You is available from Bandcamp, here. For more of Tainsus’ 80′s inspired synthcore meets French house, stream Stronger Together and A Polaroid Of Our Love below.

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