Shoegazing synthwave thing.
Kuedo – Slow Knife
Say this first: worst album cover of the year. Now, as for the music it is definitely different from the first album but still something great. It may not even be possible to see this as a follow-up to the first Kuedo record, but rather a piece in the larger context of the life of Jamie Teasdale. Many flavors mixed in but this is misterious in many ways. Electronic, synths, and probably the most beautiful tracks are the ones resembling Vangelis in the era of the Blade Runner soundtrack. And then there are those few tracks which are the most shit-your-pants soundtracks of a horror movie and you may not want to listen to those at home alone.
Xander Harris – California Chrome
Eclectic electronic: retro futurist synthwave, ambient, downtempo, electro, jumpig back and forth. That said it is not a very coherent album, but tracks are fine.
Wojciech Golczewski – Reality Check
Sci-fi horror soundtrack music with retro futuristic synth themes.
Syntax – Island Universe
There is a new offering from Syntax, of whom I haven’t heard of since 2004′s Meccano Mind. There is this retro synth thing going on, now he produced an ambient side of that. Good vibe altogether, and the starting track Andromeda is especially catchy.