Xeno & Oaklander: Sets and Lights

UP TO NOW, the problem with coldwave has been an atmospheric one, in that the music has none. If the various players are to successfully reanimate French Eighties synthwave — that forgotten world of fraying wires and misguided pop ambition — it's essential they capture the atmosphere of the original music, or crucially — that of the era. It'll mean the difference between unquantifiable magic and the sound of three people in a studio trying very hard to sound detached.