My pleasure! I love talking music so I’m happy for any excuse.
And okay, now that I understand we’re talking like retro vocal synthwave, I have some better recommendations!
My first recommendation immediately came to mind, but I’m gonna be honest and say that the best part of this recommendation does extend past the 5yr guideline I alluded to in my original comment, so you’ll have to excuse that. She’s still an active artist, but her recent work has been as features or a 2020 album collab with a more aggressive synth artist that probably isn’t what you’re looking for. But anyway, I definitely recommend Dana Jean Phoenix if you haven’t heard her yet!
Start here, the opener title track of ‘Le Mirage’ is an absolute banger than I think is totally gonna work for you:
If you’re open to slightly darker/heavier synth stuff, ‘Megawave’ is the collab album I mentioned above with artist Powernerd, and I think it’s pretty groovy:
Beyond Dana Jean Phoenix, here are some other artists I’d recommend but with less specific recommendations (probably just listen to their popular songs to get a feel):
Summerdrive is not this sound exactly, but they’re kind of synthwave meets clean pop so you might dig them (The Midnight who I previously recommended also sit in this space, but they’re a little jazzier):
And finally Gunship are also not this sound exactly, but rather sort of what you’d get if you mixed that synthwave sound with 80s hard rock, and it’s goddamn glorious (I love Gunship):
Mate you’re absolutely bang on the mark!!! I’ve just spent half an hour listening to them. Le Mirage is amazing and modern fairytale is so good I’ve played it twice already! Gunship is truly glorious I particularly like monster in paradise and can’t wait to listen to more. I like Nina and Summer drive too, there’s some real wins in their stuff. Honestly thanks so much you’ve made my day! Really excited 😃
My pleasure! I love talking music so I’m happy for any excuse.
And okay, now that I understand we’re talking like retro vocal synthwave, I have some better recommendations!
My first recommendation immediately came to mind, but I’m gonna be honest and say that the best part of this recommendation does extend past the 5yr guideline I alluded to in my original comment, so you’ll have to excuse that. She’s still an active artist, but her recent work has been as features or a 2020 album collab with a more aggressive synth artist that probably isn’t what you’re looking for. But anyway, I definitely recommend Dana Jean Phoenix if you haven’t heard her yet!
Start here, the opener title track of ‘Le Mirage’ is an absolute banger than I think is totally gonna work for you:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3NuANBUmoNZH5x2BZzXSQV
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana_jean_phoenix/le_mirage/
2018 album ‘PixelDust’ is probably overall the better album but it doesn’t have a mega-banger like the track ‘Le Mirage’:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1vJClfLqAeNTyAHbv5sqWN
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana-jean-phoenix/pixeldust/
If you’re open to slightly darker/heavier synth stuff, ‘Megawave’ is the collab album I mentioned above with artist Powernerd, and I think it’s pretty groovy:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ft0lmyttvgoCrja0jAI0Q
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dana-jean-phoenix-powernerd/megawave/
Beyond Dana Jean Phoenix, here are some other artists I’d recommend but with less specific recommendations (probably just listen to their popular songs to get a feel):
NINA - very similar space to Dana Jean Phoenix:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/31KAV0Dg1UNmnfSmvLT2XG
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/nina_f11
Summerdrive is not this sound exactly, but they’re kind of synthwave meets clean pop so you might dig them (The Midnight who I previously recommended also sit in this space, but they’re a little jazzier):
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RASv130lmR8GyP0EcQLjJ
And finally Gunship are also not this sound exactly, but rather sort of what you’d get if you mixed that synthwave sound with 80s hard rock, and it’s goddamn glorious (I love Gunship):
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PALZKWkpwjRvBsRmhlVSS
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/gunship
And if I’m still off the mark, hit me with another example :P
Mate you’re absolutely bang on the mark!!! I’ve just spent half an hour listening to them. Le Mirage is amazing and modern fairytale is so good I’ve played it twice already! Gunship is truly glorious I particularly like monster in paradise and can’t wait to listen to more. I like Nina and Summer drive too, there’s some real wins in their stuff. Honestly thanks so much you’ve made my day! Really excited 😃
I’m so glad you dig the picks! Happy to help, feel free to ask me about music anytime ✌
You’ll rue the day you said that haha
And now I’ve listened to modern fairytale three times and I’m just sorry it’s not four