Kids’ candy-like interpretation of the past delivers mixed results.
Category Archive: Synthwave Reviews
Synthwave is a retrofuturistic form of music that marries ’80s synthesizers with modern production and songwriting techniques. The synthwave review archive includes all reviews written by Iron Skullet, including those for the best and worst albums in the genre.
Beckett returns with a remarkable genre blend delivered with brilliant melodies.
Wolf and Raven reveal their creative process, favorite video games, go-to snack foods, and more in this full interview.
A thick slab of cyberpunk synthwave with many memorable moments
Society simultaneously represents the best and worst synthwave has to offer.
NRW belly-flops again with Neon Nox’s debut full-length.
Genocity is a masterpiece of surrealist audio terror.
Streets offers several rewarding slices of heartfelt popwave music
Magenta Nights is a highly polished gem of true synthwave music.
Incomplete songwriting tarnishes Bart Graft’s otherwise attractive suburbia.
Dreadful guitar work and grainy production drag down Judge Bitch’s mediocre songwriting.
A lone song stands out from the dreary heap of repetitive synth music.
Bold innovation leads to imaginative and progressive songwriting on Kardasynth
Scandroid goes dark on the artist’s new sci-fi adventure.
A glimmering jewel of melodic popwave delivered across 10 vocal-driven entries.
Outdated songwriting and repetitive compositions outweigh a few redeeming tracks
Classical instrumentation and themes of theistic Satanism accent a diverse and ambitious darksynth debut
Bright, optimistic songwriting marks Vincenzo Salvia’s latest melodic marvel.
An ambitious album packed with collaborations provides a healthy variety of synthwave and rock fusion.
Glitch Black’s latest full-length album is a well-realized musical venture into dystopian science fiction dominated by machines, and it’s one of the artist’s best releases to date.