Summer of Synth // A retrospective view

From June through to August we released a series of albums that were unconnected other by the hash tag #SummerOfSynth. 

In this news missive we revisit those releases with the hope that they are discovered by some folks who may have missed them the first time round.

Incentive // Incentive

Incentive's second self-titled album is also available digitally from circle with a dot, here: incentive.bandcamp.com/album/incentive-2021 Credits released September 17, 2021 Incentive - production, vocals, synthesizer, mixing Chase Jackson - master engineer Nice Flaws & Incentive - album art

GOATS ‘Far Out’ Review from Monolith Cocktail

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Reviews Column: Dominic Valvona


Back after a short hiatus, my eclectic spread of recommendations and reviews features, as ever, a bumper edition of recent releases. There’s a suitably seasonal solo album from a Beach Boys imbued Mike Gale that wallows in the scorching rays, called Summer Deluxe; some live action from the Ottoman/Edwardian imbued period fusion of Arab and English music hall Brickwork Lizards, who’s new EP features a quartet of live recorded tracks from the St. Giles sessions; there’s a trippy psych peregrination hard sell from the Submarine Broadcasting Company in the form of a GOATS (not that one, this is another group entirely) cassette tape called Far Out; the latest beautifully, if despondently, articulated songbook from Oliver Cherer, I FeelNothing Most Days; the musical suite in all its glory from Bethany Stenning’s multimedia conceptual art film The Human Project, released via…

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Review of Cousin Silas and Pendro ‘The Audio Scullery’

Submariner-in-Chief Rob reviews the recent work from Cousin Silas and Pendro: The Audio Scullery is the latest collaboration between Cousin Silas and Pendro - an interesting joint venture on several fronts, not least perhaps the perceived difference in styles: Cousin Silas, a musician I tend to think of as melodic and accessible, and Pendro, who …