Blog: electronic rumors

New York’s leading Minimal Synth outfit Led Er Est ’s new album, ‘The Diver’, will be out next month. Here’s the lead single ‘Kaiyo Maru’. Minimal Synth it may be, but there’s nothing minimal sounding about ‘Kaiyo Maru’. It’s a rich, regimented slab of electronic melancholy. The vintage drum machine sounds in particular, a relentless march that underpins what is, for Led Er Est, quite a poppy track with a big ‘80’s Post-Punk chorus and a thick robotic bass. [...]

• Led Er Est - Kaiyo Maru