There’s a difference between synth-driven pop music and synth-accented indie pop. The former is the stuff of Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, and the latter is the stuff of bands like Owl City and The Postal Service.
Mellow vocals and ambient – at times orchestral – synth strings, plucks and beats takes the creativity and ambivalence of indie music and marries it with the melodically interesting tones of synth music.
One of the pioneers of widespread, mainstream synth-pop was the short-lived supergroup of the early half of the 2000s, The Postal Service.
Fronted by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie–another popular[…]
#14 – Oceans of Synth-Pop
Apr 17, 2012 | 2:00 AM
