After Dark 2 and ABC - The Lexicon of Love

After Dark 2 is a compilation of Tracks by bands such as Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire, Mirage , Appaloosa, Symmetry, Twisted Wires, Farah, Mike Simonetti, all artists from the Italians Do It Better Label. First track Warm in the Winter by Glass Candy is outstanding. very good vocals on this track with a wall of synth. lyrics like 'Loves in the air/Warm in the Winter'', Tears From Heaven is the second track from Desire and its a good track, Lets Kiss by Mirage is good too. Fill the Blanks by Appaloosa is good. Looking For Love is good, Chromatics, and Heart Of Darkness by Symmetry is great, Camera by Chromatics is probably the best track on the album. Half Lives By Twisted Wires is good also. The Possessed by glass candy is good. Cherry by Chromatics is good. Beautiful Object by Glass Candy is excellent. Into Eternity by Farah is eery with some disturbing vocals. Intimate by Appaloosa is good. The Magician by Mike Simonetti is great too. Redheads feel more pain by glass candy is very good also. the whole album is just filled with moog and incredible vocal performances, and bass snare beats at a high tempo. 8/10 

The Lexicon of Love by ABC is a good listen. First track Show Me is good it opens with lots of nice trumpets, and fantastic groovy bass and organ. Poison Arrow is superb the best track on here. lyrics like ''Shoot that poison arrow right into my heart'' Many Happy Returns is good. Tears are not enough is good. Valentines Day is good too. The Look of Love part 1 is great too. Date Stamp is good. All of My heart is ok. 4 ever 2 gether is ok. The look of Love part 4 is good. all in all its a good pop album with plenty of hooks and good songs. 8/10 

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today and Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's lp titled  Before Today, is a piece of great imagination and poise. The First Song Hot Body Rub is pretty good. Bright Lit Blue Skies is a single and packs plenty of energy and taps in that chillwave summer vibe well. L'estat (According to the widows maid) is good. Fright night is excellent. Round and Round is brilliant probably best track on the album. Beverly kills is good also. Butt house blondies is good. Little Wig is great.  Can't hear my eyes is amazing. amazing vocals on that track. Reminiscences is amazing. an instrumental track, a cover of an Ethiopian pop singer. Menopause Man is great. Revolutions a lie is great. Before Today is a fun listen with plenty of good songs. lo fi, funky, synth pop, chillwave, and punk rock are all genres which show their face in this music. 9/10

Toro Y Moi's album Underneath the pine is a fantastic album. opening track Intro chi chi is good. New Beat is amazingly funky and fun. Go with you is good. Divina is good. Before I'm Done is good. Got blinded is ok. How I know is good. Light black is good. Still sound is good. Good Hold is great. Elise is ok. the sound is sort of electro chillwave, with lots of synthesizer  washy vocals, and reverbed guitar. I'm going to give it 8/10

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms and Neu! - 4

Neon Indian's debut album opens up with track Deadbeat Summer, perfect for summer. very chilled. Laughing Gas is a brilliant instrumental track. Terminally Chill is good also. 6669 (I don't know if you know) rocks along. Should have taken Acid with you is good. Mind Drips is excellent. Psychic Chasms is good. Local Joke is brilliant probably best track on here in 4/3 timing. Ephemeral Artery is good. as a whole this album works because it has this lo fi apporach, with vintage syth sounds, and the sound seems to fade in and out, sounds brilliant on headphones, with plenty of kick and snare, nice beats and a dash of guitar. 8/10

First track Crazy is superb. with some punk guitar it sounds like it came from Neu! 75. drums propel this song along nicely. Flying Dutchman is a faint version of Good life which will appear later. Schoene Welle (Nice Wave) is very pleasant to listen to. as for Wave Naturelle which has particularly nice bass parts. Good Life (Random-Rough) is great with some good keyboard parts and bells. Daenzing is very fun and easy to dance to. lyrics like ''Dancing with my baby'' . Quick Wave Machinelle is great too. Bush Drum is very good also. La Bomba (Stop Aparthijd Worldwide) is fun to dance to . Good Life is great. Elanoizan is great too. as a whole Neu! 4 has a very souless sound with drum machines and synth, but its got all the right aspects of a good album, its produced well, good musicianship. I think its a vital step for synth pop and many critics don't seem to agree with me as alot of people seem to think this is Neu!s poorest album. 8/10

Suicide - s/t and La Dusseldorf - Viva.

Suicide's Debut album is filled with sinister undertones. opener Ghost Rider pulsates along to an organ riff and drum machine and it really hits home as an opening track about what Suicide are really about. Martin Rev plays organ and programs the drum machines, whilst Alan Vega sings in his baritone, elvis impersonator voice. Rocket Usa rocks along, but Cheree is very nice to listen to. Johnny is ok. Girl ok. Frankie Teardrop is simply stunning and very eery, very confronting, hilarious actually. Che is ok. Cheree remix is actually great. I remember is ok. but the highlight of the album is the brilliant Keep Your dreams which is breathtaking. the last track on the album. I'm going to score this album very high based on the success of those few tracks that make thisalbum worth listening to. a mixture of electro, synth pop and a punk attitude very DIY. manufactured and soulless but the singing is filled with heart and soul. 9/10

Viva is a brilliant listen. it opens with track Viva the title track which is brilliant. White Overalls is punk injecteded bliss very reminiscent of Neu! '75 tracks like Hero etc. Rheinita is amazing. it builds up and then drops on this piano part then comes back in again. the last half of the album is good too. I Think Klas Dinger former Neu! member wants to create something uptempo with spiralling ascending melodies, pop orientated with rock and punk beats. and punk guitars of course and piano placed nicely amongst organ and synthesizer. 8/10

John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves and The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy

John Maus's third album is a nice outing. starting with opener 'Streetlight', then straight onto the best track on the first side, 'Quantum Leap' which propels itself rockingly along with a nice bassline and very appealing synthesizers. 'And The Rain' is ok, and then 'Hey Moon' is simply mesmerizing with stunning vocals all over the track. 'Keep pushing on ' is a intense epic from start to finish. 'The Crucifix' move along nicely into "Head For The Country' which is memorable. 'Cop Killer is slightly humourous, and 'Matter of Fact' is hilarious.'We can Break through' has some good vocals and 'Believer' is simply breathtaking, this album WMBTPCOO, has some good moments on it and is really John Maus's breakthrough album where he really cracks right onto creating something with a pop sensibulity, but futuristic and has an attitude, whether it be slightly humourous in parts. 8/10

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain is a seminal classic album. with literally stacks of feedback layering all around to make a terrific wall of sound. the attitude. the chaos. the passion of these tracks is simply brilliant. Opening Track 'Just like Honey' opens with bass drum and a snare crack like Ronnettes Be My Baby. and just is filled with moments of pure joy. 'The Living End' is filled with venom. 'Taste the Floor' is toxic. 'The Hardest Walk' is an early standout track. 'Cut Dead' a nice slow song just to get you ready for... 'In A Hole' sheer brilliant wall of noise that hits you in the face with pleasure, searing metallic guitar 'Taste Of Cindy' is ok, and 'Some Candy Talking is heavenly, 'Never Understand' me is good, 'Inside Me' is ok, 'You Trip Me Up' is great Somethings Wrong and Its So Hard are grand also. in all Psychocandy is passionate, stirring in parts, resilient, hard hitting, sombre. its really got everything from a punk album, plenty of attitude and songs to boot. 9/10

.

Brian Eno - Another Green World and Giorgio Moroder - Knights In White Satin

Another Green World is , without a doubt, very experimental, with pop edges. Brian Eno finds himself on 'Sky Saw' the opening track, with metallic sounds could be a guitar I don't really know. 'St Elmo's Fire' is a nice slow song with lyrics 'In the cool august moon' its got some amazing electric guitar work too. In 'Dark Trees' an instrumental track with nice guitar. 'The Big Ship' is truly excellant probably the best song on the album that will get played over and over again as you find yourself lost in its momentary lapse of awakening. 'I'll Come Running' it sweet experimental pop reminiscent of Roxy Music. Eno's lyrics I want to be the wandering sailor' tells you that Eno is up for a ride. Another Green World is full of Instrumental gems and it seem Bowie and Eno at this stage in their Careers opted for instrumental tracks as the music speaks for itself. vocals would just get in the way of these tiny miniscule masterpieces like 'Sombre Reptiles' and 'Another Green World'. 'Golden Hours' is simply brilliant with lyrics like 'I think its been an eternity' and 'perhaps my brains are old and scrambled' excellant guitar and backing vocals in this track. Perhaps Eno wants us to find a bit of ourselves in his music. its a matserpiece of the instrumental track, but the vocals are good too 9/10

This album by Giorgio Moroder, came before From Here To Eternity, the electro disco pulsating gem. and its definitely in the disco category, but without electro pulses. instead its just live instruments with synth bass and wah wah guitar. Knights in white satin in three parts is electrical. with piano and wah. 'I want you I need you' and sexually stirred, groovy and without a doubt brilliant. Oh l'amour is continuing in the disco vein with strings and Giorgio's rasp seductive vocals, singing in french so its very sensual. Sooner Or later is kind of flat. but I wanna Funk With You Tonight makes up for the last track. brilliant sensual backing vocals. Giorgio  aims to make dance able tunes with a disco futuristic edge, thats what makes this music timeless because, the sounds he goes for are the future, and Giogio is still ahead of everybody elses games. 8/10 

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine and Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

as a whole, Kraftwerk's The Man Machine is an enthralling listen from start to finish. opener 'The Robots' beats along to an almost comical edge. 'Spacelab' is excellent, so Is 'Metropolis'. 'The Model' is the closest they ever had to a pop song. 'Neon Lights' is like an electronic folk ballad. 'The Man Machine' is also brilliant. As a whole, The Man Machine works as a alternative pop hit, with plenty of pop hooks to please, but its a crucial leap for Kraftwerk as its a pop crossover, a massive leap for Karktwerk and a massive leap for synth pop as a genre. 10/10

Jean Michel Jarres Oxygene is overall  pretty good. it ushered in a whole scene of electronic music into the mainstream, and his influence can be heard throughout Daft Punk's music and Justice of course. modern french house and electronica, as well as mainstream western music and electronica there. his concerts are some of the biggest staged of all time. very appealing to fans of electronica and a must listen. 8/10