Dark All Day – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com Stay Retro Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:08:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-10906530_846941002018082_8508920941385779369_n-1-32x32.jpg Dark All Day – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com 32 32 Top Ten Retrowave Albums of 2018 https://newretrowave.com/2018/12/21/top-ten-retrowave-albums-of-2018/ https://newretrowave.com/2018/12/21/top-ten-retrowave-albums-of-2018/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:23:33 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=25673  

10. Robert Parker – End of The Night

Robert Parker never ceases to amaze. This expert blend of nudisco and synthpop hits all the right spots, creating a memorable and cinematic experience that we are sure not to forget anytime soon!

9. Dance with the Dead – Loved to Death

 Dance With The Dead’s most driven, intense album yet – “Loved to Death” is an instant classic. Pealing iconic synths and chugging baselines underscore this album’s immense feat of production.

8. Timecop 1983 Night Drive

This melancholic masterpiece perfectly embodies the aesthetic of driving long, twisting roads at night. A return to form, “Night Drive” is yet another expertly produced album from the one and only Timecop1983.

 

7. Waveshaper – Lost Shapes

“Lost Shapes” is a collection of B-Sides from Waveshaper. Chock full of early music, ideas for video games, film scores, demos, and more – this fantastic album acts like a time capsule of waveshaper’s unique sound, and it’s fascinating to hear it evolve in real time.

6. ORAX – Tearwave

ORAX tears into the darkwave scene, elevating the dreary genre with his powerful “Tearwave.” Delivering forward thinking melodies, intense sonic textures, and upgraded vocals – this album is truly a moment of progress and expansion.

 

5. DJ Ten – Trinity

Filling a niche desperately lacking in the synthwave scene, DJ Ten has returned with an intense blend of retro and hip-hop, resulting in some of the most interesting beats we’ve heard all year. This synthesized trip hop breakbeat vaportrap is innovative and perfectly produced.

 

4. Sung – Fahrenheit

The first full length album from Sung, “Fahrenheit” is simply a modern achievement in synthwave. A true tour de force. Bravo!

 

3. GUNSHIP – Dark All Day

This much awaited second album from GUNSHIP, “Dark All Day” is a beautiful synthpop experience of from start to finish. Incorporating darksynth aesthetics, GUNSHIP continues to grow.

 

2. W O L F C L U B – Infinity

W O L F C L U B’s “Infinity” signals a true return to form – really, we have not been able to stop listening to “Tears” all year! A standout example of the New Retro Wave sound.

 

1. The Midnight – Kids

“Kids” stands above the rest this year – not simply as a musical work, but more importantly as a much needed social commentary. Cutting directly to the heart of what makes nostalgia such a powerful emotion, this album is a lyrical masterpiece.

 

Honorable Mention –  Sferro – Sferrare (2008​-​2018)

Whether you know it or not – Sferro is likely one of the reasons you listen to synthwave right now. An early adopter of the sound, Sferro was a pioneer, a beautiful producer, and founder of Girlfriend Records. This year he ceased making his wonderful music.

To commemorate his career, Sferrare (2008​-​2018) has been released, featuring rare and unreleased tracks from throughout his career.

 

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10. Junks – Everybody’s Movin’

9. GUNSHIP – Dark All Day (feat. Tim Cappello and Indiana)

8. Stilz – Midnight Dancer

7. NINA – Sleepwalking

6. Deadlife – Hard Bitch

5. Robert Parker – End of the Night (feat. DoubleBoy)

4. Futurecop! – Edge of the Universe (feat. Parallels)

3. Ollie Wride – The Driver (feat. The Night Hour)

2. Indradevi – Idols

1. DJ Ten – Viral Lust (feat. Trevor Something)

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GUNSHIP – Dark All Day – Album Review

Taking stylistic and audio cues from Carpenter’s brooding shadows, Cameron’s neo-noir chrome, Spielberg’s uplifting interstellar lights, Dark All Day perfectly riffs on all the 80’s sci-fi you adored from your yester-years-youth whilst exploring entirely ‘New Retro’ themes. The very nature of 80’s cinema is explored throughout the one hour and six minute running time, a soundtrack shifting between quieter, goosebumps-stimulating sound-sets and all-out sonic-synth assaults. Gunship take everything out of the available equipment, returning you to the shudder zone, creating a soundtrack that will please all 80s synth-score-fans with their collection of mesmerising, crooked, off kilter sounds.

Gunship’s smash-hit  synthwave debut album of irresistible ’80’s nostalgia set the bar high, but in classic movie sequel-VHS-fashion, Dark All Day pushes things further, successfully enticing you to take a trip back into the netherworld that is their sound.

Drum machine and live kit grooves, epic arpeggios, interstellar synths, lush pads and emotive chords with Tron-style synthetics and murky 80’s pop sensibilities meld together to define the cinematic landscape. It is inspired, deliriously, briskly offering a vivid memory recall back to your childhood, seeping subconsciously into your auditory system, awareness incorporating the layers of glossy vintage imagery and bubbling synths until it seems like you’re really there, witnessing their red-skied apocalypse for yourself. The evolving sounds exist on a whole other astral-plane, with masterfully sculptured sonic integrity, taking, harnessing, your digitalized mind.

Singling out individual tracks from the album is difficult due to the strength of the thirteen tracks; be it the euphoric bliss of Woken Furies, the frantic energy of Dark All Day,  the dreamy warmth of When You Grow Up Your Heart Dies,  the dark chromatics of Drone Racing League… Rise the Midnight Girl is as beautiful piece of music as you could hope to hear, with its  haunting melody reminiscent of the melodic synth line of the terminator franchise.

Raw analogue bass sounds sit alongside the collection intense guitar riffs, smooth saxophone solos and emotional vocals.

It’s hard to describe the boundary-pushing-genre-bending-heights the album reaches, though the album’s cover manages to do this for me: The art from Signal Noise perfectly encapsulates the themes and raw beauty of the soundscape with the dark orb eclipsing the synthwave sun, people gathered in the darkness, seduced in awe to worship, follow, give themselves to whatever comes next. The what comes next just happens to be a full on retro pop-rock hits for this decade, one  album to fully engage the nostalgic synapses.

At once gloomy and desperate, emotional and euphoric, as epic as it is dramatic. As bright as it is dark.

 

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Dark All Day is OUT NOW!

Stream and enjoy. GUNSHIP’s 2nd offering has much to digest and enjoy. Look out for the album review coming in a few days.

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Accompanying this monumental track is an insanely gruesome and groovy new music video that is sure to melt your face and steal your heart …or, well, at least your blood! GUNSHIP - "Dark All Day (Feat. Tim Cappello and Indiana)"

“Dark All Day,” now open for pre-order and scheduled to drop October 5th, is slated to be a much darker release than their first, taking GUNSHIP into new sonic territories – though I am happy to relate that they haven’t lost an ounce of their iconic groovy synthpop sound.

The music video for “Dark All Day” is a direct salute to cult classic “The Lost Boys,” and even features the very sexy sax man himself Tim Cappello of the original film ripping out an amazingly vibrant performance. Also featured are the luscious vocals from Indiana which blend perfectly with the synth and sax to create a truly memorable track.
GUNSHIP - "Dark All Day (Feat. Tim Cappello and Indiana)"

In the video, which is a mix of animation and live action, we find GUNSHIP playing a show in a vampire infested Santa Carla. Famous vampire hunters such as Blade, Buffy, and Seth Gecko from “Dusk til Dawn” act as their bodyguards – but it isn’t long before things go to hell.

Packed into this awesome music video are numerous references to quintessential retro films and anime such as Predator and Berserk. Arguably more important, however, is that as the video switches to live action at it’s bloody climax – we see our first glimpse of GUNSHIP themselves, Dan Haigh, Alex Westaway, and Alex Gingell – their first appearance in any of their music videos.
GUNSHIP - "Dark All Day (Feat. Tim Cappello and Indiana)"

‘Dark All Day’ is available for pre-order now. (PRE-ORDER DIGITAL HERE) The album contains 13 tracks and is available in a deluxe limited edition 180g double-gatefold 45 rpm vinyl set with special lenticular cover, as well as in a brand new Special Edition ‘16-Bit Box Set’ which includes signed CD and a plethora of new GUNSHIP goodies!. (VINYL AND MERCH HERE)

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