Top 10 albums 

1. Corduroy - Corduroy

Favourite track: Gråa Dagar 

2. Blankenberge - Everything

Favourite track: Everything 

 3. Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!

Favourite track: Everything You Wanted 

 4. Postcards - After The Fire, Before The End

Favourite track: Home Is So Sad 

 5. Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction

Favourite track: Under The Rolling Moon 

 6. Massage- Still Life

Favourite track: In Gray & Blue 

 7. We.the Pigs - We.The Pigs

Favourite track: Truth Or Dare 

 8. Nation Of Language - A Way Forward

Favourite track: This Fractured Mind 

 9. Ta Toy Boy - Endless Life

Favourite track: If You Know How 

 10. HYLA - Caravel

Favourite track: Known To Fall 

 Favourite songs of 2021 Spotify playlist

 Enjoy!

Sister Electra - Down By The Park [Premiere]

Sister Electra is the brainchild of Swedish musician/producer Stefan Eriksson. Despite his own musical roots originally within punk and heavy metal genres, in the late eighties he was drawn towards the electronic music scene. Throughout his career, Eriksson has been involved in an impressive amount of different bands/projects, released records and toured around the world. He recently started collaborating with the newly-founded label Modernshortcuts, who are releasing his new single. 
FP2T is happy to be premiering 'Down By The Park', a melodic synth-drenched track that sounds fresh and at the same time reminiscent of past decades' music. The single will be officially released on 31/01/2017 and will also include an alternate version, 'Unconscious By The Park'. 
Check out 'Down By The Park' below! 

PAT MOON - Don't Hide From The Light

It's not often that I find myself at a loss for words while hearing a new album... And yet, here I am; trying to explain what I like about it and all I can say is how it makes me feel. PAT MOON, the solo project of Portland based up-and-coming musician Kate Davis, released her debut album 'Don't Hide From The Light' on June 27th. Having listened to the brilliant first single 'Love Me As I Am' a couple of months ago, I was intrigued to hear more. And I was not disappointed in the end. I was not only absorbed in Kate's captivating voice or the melodic synths, but engrossed in the 8 tracks, which seem inscribed as a constellation of antithetical pairs. Luminous and dark. Adamant and submissive. Ethereal and palpable. Melancholic and happy. Submissive and unyielding. Gloomy and yet aspiring. 
'Don't Hide From the Light' is a revelation in itself, a stellar debut album that is worth your time and attention. Discover it below. 

Another Juggle - Dance Sunshine, Dance (Album)

We first met Danish band Another Juggle back in May 2015 when they released the single 'Dance Sunshine, Dance'. On January 29th earlier this year the Copenhagen quartet (Nikolaj Dalsgaard, Emil Eggert Scherrebeck, Anders Cederblad and Thomas Haahr) released their debut album on Target Records. They describe their music as dreampop and it is invariably impregnated with 80's inspired synthesizers and melodic guitars. However, their sound is hazily reminiscent of the past. 
Here they have succeeded in creating an album that transforms the Nordic melancholy into an audible awakening experience. Here you will find mid tempo tracks, such as 'Slide' and 'Coins'. And here you will find more upbeat songs like 'Dance Sunshine, Dance' and 'Cities Crash'. It is how the band express their feelings about the morose heart's - sometimes futile - leap to an introspective and at the same time self-liberating journey. This is a debut masterfully done that absolutely deserves your attention. 
 'Dance Sunshine, Dance' is available to stream and buy on Bandcamp. You can also watch the video for the opening track 'Not Now' below.

PREMIERE: Talking Bush - Desperate

Talking Bush, Saint Petersburg's Nikita Bushmanov's brainchild, is one of the reasons I think 2015 has been a year with a lot of new promising dream pop projects. His debut EP 'Ordinary Unusual' was released earlier this summer via Shelflife Records. Nikita has been working non-stop on the songs that will soon be part of his first full-length album 'Stories From Outer Space'. He has just unveiled the second track off the album. 'Desperate' follows the lines of his previous songs with catchy tunes, balancing between synth pop and dream pop, and Nikita's beautifully gentle vocals. 
Get the key to unlock the entry to a dreamy garden. Get 'Desperate' below. 

Tiny Fireflies - Taken

Kristine Capua(Tiny Microphone) and Lisle Mitnik(Fireflies) formed Tiny Fireflies when EardrumsPop asked them to create a song together for their "Between Two Waves" compilation. The Chicago based duo have since published more songs and released their EP Change in 2011. Their last single 'Picture Perfect' having been released in 2012, Kristine and Lisle had been working on their debut full-length album. Yesterday they unveiled the first song off 'The Space Between', a nine-track album which will be released on November 11th. 'Taken' is a gorgeous synth-pop track that you will instanty take to. 
In eager anticipation of the album, make sure to listen to 'Taken' below. 

Skymningar - Skymningar EP

Ever wondered what the Swedish twilight might sound like? Well, here's a band that will give you a good example. Skymningar is Christian Augustin (Totalt Jävla Mörker), Pär Isling Poromaa (Väärt) and Anders Winterstam (So.So.) and they make beautiful synthpop.

"An autumn evening in Umeå. I cross the bridge leading to the city. The train tracks are northbound. The announcer from the station has no audience. The sun sinks into the horizon, leaving people in uncertainty. We have a cup of coffee and start creating music. Outside the balcony window a shadow world is emerging. That is what we are trying to make music about, and escape from.", says Pär. 

Their debut self-titled EP was released a few days ago and it contains 4 synthpop tracks, that will lift from you any burden of an overwhelming reality. You can stream/buy the EP on their Bandcamp and watch the official video for 'Sisyfos' below.

Quieter Than Spiders - Hibakusha

Quieter Than Spiders are a Shangai synthpop band  who use home-made electronic sounds played by hand. Leon Zhang, Yi Fan and Yao have been preparing their debut album, Signs Of Life, which will be out on Anna Logue Records. There is no release date yet, but they've just shared a video for the enchanting 'Hibakusha'. Check it out below. 

VedeTT - Tuer Les Gens

"It's fragile and it takes time to love someone without emotion". 'Tuer Les Gens' is the title track off France's VedeTT's new album. It doesn't take any time to fall in love with this song. Check it out below. 

Femme Fantasm - Femme Fantasm EP

You can say that the name 'femme fantasm' refers to a female creature that exists only in a person's mind. However, LA's visual artist and musician, Lauren Lunette, uses it to describe her envisionment of music. Created as a solo project in the spring of 2014, Femme Fantasm gave us a sneak peak of her music shortly before the year had expired. 'Ghostdance' and 'Phantasmagoria' were the two songs that immediately drew our attention and had us asking for more. Yesterday she released her debut EP on French indie label Beko Disques, just in time to prove that her long-awaited EP was not a figment of our imagination. 'Ritual You+Me' and 'Moon Weather' are two new songs that add to Femme Fantasm's musical spectrum. Sensual vocals combined with vibrant 80's inspired synth sounds take you on a kaleidoscopic musical journey. Listen and prepare yourselves to dive into the psychedelic, colourful part of your imagination.