Tag: Mat Smith

Musik Music Musique 2.0: The Rise Of Synth Pop – Cherry Red Records

Sometimes it feels like we have never left the 80’s, or even escaped the 90’s for that matter. Being tied to history because it might seem safer or more familiar is a better place to live out life instead of processing the fraught airwaves of current reality. Maybe the decade did actually in fact begin…

13/10/2021
Musik Music Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth Pop – Cherry Red Records

Memories maketh the music… I was going to begin by saying I never cared for the term Synth Pop, though I had forgotten just how brilliant Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages was/ is, containing those perfect opening bars which almost come to define the pleasure of these three discs. Also because the word…

22/07/2020

Musik Music Musique 2.0: The Rise Of Synth Pop – Cherry Red Records