THE NEW DIVISION | Senseless

“An eclectic mix of sonorous guitar hooks complemented by synth leads eerily narrating times past, all the while remaining boldly in the present.”

After two landmark album releases, two EPs and a host of remixes, LA’s The New Division returns in 2015 with new single, Senseless, as premiered on Flaunt Magazine. 

PR0FILES

The sun-kissed metropolis of Los Angeles has often been a mecca for bourgeoning electronic acts, but only few seem to strike that right balance between a classic 80’s synth sound and the intoxicating high of a love-soaked pop melody. Whether it’s the unforgiving complexity of a breakup or the false security of sex addiction, Pr0files find a fitting context within their “twisted” East Coast surroundings to explore unresolved emotions through electronic music, writing songs about unforgiving emotional complexities as a powerhouse producer duo; film composition and hip hop songwriting only touching the surface of their combined career accolades. One half of Pr0files duo, Lauren Pardini, discusses the aches of writing a breakup song, and why Los Angeles is the perfect home for making electronic music.

18+ | All The Time

“Their work alludes to an exploration of the human form and its role within digital communication.”

(Tiny Mix Tapes)

After a series of mixtape and video clip releases since their 2011 beginnings, experimental/goth R&B duo, 18+, are set to release their highly anticipated debut album later this year, with second release track, All The Time, taken from the upcoming November release. The largely anonymous and unnamed LA duo – except when operating under the moniker of Boy and Sis – follow suit with their second 2014 release single in its video clip exploration of sexualised bodies and gender identity through the use of CGI characters, which are mostly women. With suggestive vocals and tantalizing, darkly erotic bass lines, All The Time has all the air and detached grace of a high end fashion soundtrack; Prada did, after all, use one of their earlier singles (Drawl) for a 2011 fashion campaign.

GOLD & YOUTH

If the era of neo-noir cinema was modernised into a soundtrack for present day it would sound inherently Gold & Youth. They manage to humanise the quintessential elements of noir film, such as escapism, darkened landscapes and nostalgia, whilst bringing them into a contemporary context which draws upon the instrumentation of the 1980s. Whether it’s the light and shade of the 50’s anti-hero, or the sun-soaked synthetic-ness of an 80’s Los Angeles, Gold & Youth find comfort in the solitude of nostalgia.