An album of Italo synth disco from Turkey’s Surrender! (previously here). The album’s not out until next month but here’s a preview.
After a suitably dramatic intro, the album opens with Volute, a track from the previous single about which I said “a brilliant bit of thumping Moroder-style synth work“. Masque teeters on the edge of synth parody and I can feel some charming D invective coming my way for this. Travellers piles on the synths but with a bit of the hello sky feeling about it. Fast Days was the other track from the earlier single which “starts as a piano-led tune before breaking out the triumphant ‘happy’ synths.” When you add vocals to this rich mix it’s too much, as on Hurry. The other previously released tune is Conflicted which threatens to be classic disco soul but glitches its way out of trouble…
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