Six Months Of Superb Synth - EPs

In the second part of my six month roundup, I'll talk about all of the EPs that I’ve reviewed which have caught my attention in the last half year. I hope you'll enjoy my selections and remember that while these represent particular favourites, there's been an enormous amount of superb music from which to choose in 2025.

Bunny X - Never Give You Up

Bunny X’s Never Give You Up is a powerful expression of almost obsessive devotion, conveyed by Abigail Gordon’s emotive vocals and a soundscape of pounding drums, effulgent synths and haunting melodies. The original track pulses with aching intensity, blending desire and desperation, as the narrator promises eternal presence, even in darkness and rejection.

Earmake’s remix brings a brighter, more uplifting dimension to the song, infusing it with well-chosen synths, choral echoes and dynamic energy, while preserving the original’s emotional weight. The result is a journey through longing, obsession and ghostly love, reimagined with hopeful light.

Pyrococcus & Ziberia - Cathartic Dance

Cathartic Dance by Pyrococcus & Ziberia is a vibrant celebration of dance as emotional release and healing, led by Ziberia’s impassioned, soulful vocals and surging piano melodies. The original track channels ferocious energy and freeing joy, as the narrator describes shedding burdens through movement and connecting deeply with one's inner self.

Each remix adds a unique emotional and sonic layer from the jazzy, funk-infused Interruptor Remix to the euphoric drive of Liuos, the haunting industrial textures of JOYSTYCK and the brooding trip-hop depth of Zephyr Nova. Together, they form a powerful suite that transforms dance into a transcendent, cathartic ritual.

Bending Grid & Jolie - Neon Heat

Neon Heat by Bending Grid & Jolie is a passionate, high-energy EP that merges sultry vocals with top notch production across its original track and a series of dynamic remixes. Jolie’s powerful voice drives the emotional core of the title track, expressing longing, desire and nocturnal desperation against a backdrop of pounding drums and dazzling synths.

Each remix brings a unique energy. Lyst’s version adds atmospheric feeling and emotional richness; Aftermour emphasizes intense rhythmic urgency and soaring synths; MAGS delivers a darker, more aggressive edge with distorted textures; and Valoramous transforms the track into a rave-ready EDM anthem with electrifying momentum. Together, these versions create a multi-faceted exploration of yearning and euphoria set in a neon-lit, cyberpunk nightscape.

Karl Vincent - Reveries

Karl Vincent’s Reveries is a synth-based sonic journey infused with expressive guitar work and shifting moods that span from sunlit joy to nostalgic introspection. Each track weaves a vivid atmosphere: from the energetic blaze of “Just Tuning” to the breezy elegance of “Waiting For You,” Karl Vincent’s guitar performances add edge and emotion.

“Coastal Bay” surges with brassy synth power and wild guitar solos, while “Gina” offers sweeping drama wrapped in reverence and soaring melodies. “Daydreaming” closes the album with cotton-candy softness. Panpipes, lucent synths and tranquil rhythms coalesce into a dreamy, summer-hued haze. Karl Vincent crafts a deeply engaging, emotionally resonant experience on this album.

Venturer - Petty Crimes

Venturer’s Petty Crimes conjures images of a dystopian cyberpunk sprawl, all flickering neon and suffocating smog, where danger waits in filthy, shadowed alleyways. “Runaway” blazes forward with angular synths and explosive percussion, its restless melody steeped in tension and chase. Out Runner’s guitar weaves shadow into the fevered chaos, adding gravity to the hurtling motion.

“Night Vices” escalates the intensity with snarling bass, glimmering synths and a ghostly choir that howls across the sonic battlefield, each note vibrating with menacing majesty. “Counterfeit” descends even deeper into the city’s haunted underbelly, where spectral melodies twist through slashing synths and shattering basslines. Rage and ruin dominate, balanced with spectral beauty, as each track weaves through noise and neon, inescapable and thrilling.

Michael Angelaux - Current Affair

Michael Angelaux’s Current Affair unfolds like a tabloid exclusive with synth-fueled drama, telling the story of a pop star devoured by scandal, media frenzy and forbidden desire. From the explosive “Accusation (Intro),” with its breathless news bulletins and surging strings, to the aching radiance of “The Prisoner” as it declares defiant devotion, the EP brims with theatricality.

Tracks like “Darkest Knight” mix mythic imagery with slashing synths and glimmering melodies, while “Scandal” throws barbs and basslines in equal measure, Michael’s voice dripping with fury and bravado. “Dance in the Rain” swells with wounded beauty and emotional resilience, before “Vindication (Outro)” brings the narrative full circle, exoneration delivered in cinematic waves of strings and stormy vocals. This is a scathing, seductive mirror held up to fame, lies and the strange intimacy of scandal.

Tenodi Boris - Sand Dune

Sand Dune by Tenodi Boris is a desert reverie, tracing a lone traveler’s aching pursuit of rebirth through a mirage-streaked dreamscape, where memory and time dissolve like heatwaves. Kosmic Kiss’s spectral voice floats over flickering chimes and throbbing bass, pulling emotion from the sand with every note.

The original track glows with longing, its layered synths and soaring guitar reaching for something unattainable, while Future Analog’s remix deepens the shadows with pounding low end and radiant melancholy.

Alex Vecchietti’s remix washes the journey in tranquil synths and ghostly grace, where distant piano and soaring guitar feel like prayers cast into the wind. Each version expands the desert’s mystery, full of hope, desolation and the soft shimmer of something lost and beautiful.

Temporal Waves - Incoming Transmission

Incoming Transmission by Temporal Waves is a haunting, intricately woven sonic journey where the tabla becomes both a heartbeat and a compass through shadowed urban ruins, windswept voids and astral realms. Each track and remix, whether it's Raphael Weinroth-Browne’s aching cello on ‘Eclipse of an Urban Dystopia”, the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the “Incoming” suite, or the meditative propulsion of the “Water Temple” and “Cyclotron” remixes brings new textures and emotional dimensions.

From winds that evoke desolation to glittering synths that reflect distant starlight, the EP pulses with organic warmth and otherworldly melancholy. Each collaborator deepens the mood: Pashang’s galactic menace, Dynatron’s serene vastness, Aaron Niles’ dancing synth fire and OLD’s glowing intimacy all echo against Temporal Waves’ singular rhythmic soul. It’s a transmission from somewhere distant yet eerily close, where memory, rhythm and decay are inseparable.