Fueled with that outrun inertia and supercharged with epic sci-fi soundscapes flirting with the likes of Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre, this latest record is every bit as grand as any connoisseur will come to expect out of Stockholm’s Waveshaper.

Credit and due praise is also due for the exceptional album art by frequent collaborator Xurxo G Penalta, whose Heavy-Metal inspired sci-fi visuals continue to fill us with wonder as we surrender our senses to yet another musical journey through space and time.

Favorite tracks: The Phantom Machine, Lost in the Cloud

Waveshaper’s ‘Mainframe’ is out now via Bandcamp and Spotify

Favorite tracks : Heat, Night with you.

Sellorekt/LA Dream ‘Cherry Vice’ is out now via Bandcamp and Spotify

Emil Rottmayer’s ‘Deflection’ is available for purchase and streaming on Bandcamp and Spotify.

For those new to the Polish duo’s strain of Riff-heavy darksynth, the graphic album art to their sophomore album Death Trap (done by Daniel Shai) should tell you all about what’s to expect from this 43-minute sonic splatterfest, and the mere fact that you clicked on this article gives me a good hunch that you’re about to enjoy it.

With its eight tracks of dialogue to guide you through the album’s rich ambience and narrative, Death Trap tells the story of a twisted mind named Teddy on the prowl in a dark city where technology has overrun mankind’s last glimmering contact with humanity.

“Death Trap” LP by UltraKiller

Carpenter enthusiasts and riff-junkies, welcome home.

UltraKiller ‘Death Trap’ is now available via JST Records for streaming via Bandcamp and Spotify

What can you tell us about the concept behind this new chapter for WOLFCLUB?

We’ve always tried to make cinematic sounding music, songs that you can imagine playing in the scenes of a movie. For this record, we have leant further into that concept and written it as if it were some soundtrack to an imagined or lost film. I was really interested in blending our favourite genres together to try and experiment with our sound more, mashing synthwave and indie rock with our usual melodic vocal lines.

What does Just Drive Pt.1 represent musically within the context of your discography so far?

The new records overall sound is still us but a little bit further down the road. I’ve often written songs on the guitar and then transposed the notes, chords, melody lines into the computer onto synthesizers. This time we decided to leave a lot of those guitar lines in to add a different feel and texture, so that they intermingle with the usual synth and analogue bass sounds we use. We’ve collaborated with some amazing new vocalists as well as some of our past favourites.

Driving and cars have been somewhat of a staple theme in your discography. From your point of view, what is it about the idea of driving that lends itself so well to the eighties retrowave mood?

It’s the idea of escape, getting away, going on a journey into a fantasy world soundtracked by nostalgia. The driving basslines have the feel of movement, of going someplace elsewhere.

Can you name some of your go-to driving music?

Bloc Party, Miami Nights 1984, Com Truise, Lazerhawk, Chvrches, Timecop1984

Do you have a favourite driving game?

I loved Mario kart as a kid and recently found a website online where you can play retro games, so I kind of lost myself for a few days revisiting those old tracks. 

Can you name one of your favourite albums, movies and books?

Sonic Youth – Candle: The album really blew my mind when I first heard it, all this intense wall of noise, I try to capture that spirit in a few of our tracks for the chorus sections, fill them with dense synth sounds to attack the senses.

Book – I’d find it hard to choose just one so I’d go with all of Kurt Vonnegut’s entire catalogue. If I have to choose one I’d go with Timequake.

Movie: ‘Infamous’ Directed by Joshua Caldwell, starring Bella Thorne and featuring 6 of our tracks. It’s been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember to have my music featured in a film, so to have them soundtrack a Hollywood movie was one of my favourite things to have happened.

If you’re reading this on Friday, March 5th, be sure to tune in to the band’s Reddit AMA session at 5pm GMT.  

Drive Pt.1 is now up and running on Bandcamp and major streaming services.

Signals is now available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

LAU hits the ground running with a dynamic, funkier sound than her work with NINA and nails down the merits of her grand debut with the inclusion of top-shelf guests and remix tracks by Sunglasses Kid, Droid Bishop, Highway Superstar and Maethelvin on the Deluxe Edition of the album. For fans of glossy eighties power-ballads, your favourite retrowave album of 2021 may well just have dropped.

LAU’s debut album Believer and Believer (Deluxe) are out digitally worldwide on February 12th 2021 via Aztec Records.

The listening experience is tense but oddly soothing, the ambience is bleak yet welcoming (Think Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross’ ‘Gone Girl’ score meets Kenji Kawai’s ‘Ghost In The Shell’ soundtrack.)

For the uninitiated, this is as warm a welcome into the world of Dreampunk as you’re ever going to get.

Collectors and fans of top-grade physical releases will also be happy to know that the album is being issued on fancy, Full LED on-body printed cassette tapes (Limited to 75 copies) with an Obi Strip.

So turn down the lights, tune in and bask in the dying lights of human civilization.

Grid Failure is available for streaming on Bandcamp via No Problema Tapes and on Youtube via Vapor Memory.

All about love by SIERRA

Paris-based producer Sierra has just dropped her third EP All About Love as an early holiday gift to set your senses ablaze. Following up on her cinematic and introspective Gone EP released last year,  All About Love and its two tracks sink deeper still, pushing the sonic violence and chaos beyond the threshold of sanity into a fever dream-like experience of unbound animosity and bloodlust. Let loose, release your inhibitions and let catharsis wash over your senses in the cavernous depths of depravity.

Be sure to check out Sierra on Facebook, Instagram and Bandcamp for the latest news updates.

This marks Meteor’s second album and third release this year, having released his last album System Failure last May and having collaborated on the Cyborg : Deadly Machine Soundtrack alongside Fixions.

Cyborg : Deadly Machine (Movie Soundtrack) by Meteor / Fixions / Kid Zan / Magic DanceBe sure to check out Meteor on Bandcamp and Facebook for the latest music and updates.