- Sep 28, 2014
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These genre labels are getting sillier and sillier.
As for Arcade Fire, I think I started to lose interest with The Suburbs. Don't get me wrong, there's some amazing stuff on that record, but the band's inherent pretentiousness started to stop being charming. Afterlife is a real high point on Reflektor, but that's a record I had a really hard time getting into otherwise. And I haven't even been able to give Everything Now a full listen. Electric Blue is another nice (if slightly forgettable) discoey number from Regine, but everything else has fallen really flat for me.
Another band I lost interest in was Interpol after Antics, but I'm really liking what I've heard off their new record so far.
Synthwave is a perfect description of the genre though. Its synth-heavy music inspired by 80s synth-pop and soundtracks to 80s video games and movies.
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