Coming soon: Coldwave/Synth

Review: In celebration of Pride Month, Dark Entries is reissuing Kinga's sultry 1988 synth-pop delight, Sexy Boy. Calgary's Tomas Fussey is the man behind Kinga, a project that embraces androgyny and nightlife flair and is inspired by gender-fluid icons of the 80s, such as Boy George and Janet Jackson, and fuelled by a love of disco and synth-pop. 'Elevator Operator' and the now-iconic B-side 'Sexy Boy' gained unexpected radio play despite its bold style, while a 1989 remix brought slick production, though it didn't hit commercially. Today, its deep grooves feel more relevant than ever and this version features five mixes, original artwork, liner notes, and a vintage press photo of the glamorous, genre-defying Kinga.

Review: Berlin-based Anna Jordan aka The Allegorist has a background as a painter and having added music making to her arsenal of artistic skills, it's perhaps no surprise that her productions are highly cinematic, instantly visually evocative pictures weaved in sound rather. From Birth Until Death sees her utilising an array of field recordings from Berlin's Grunewald Forest, from footsteps in the snow to faraway planes and dog's barking, incorporating them into her own layered synths, deep bass bombs and electronic beats. From the grandiose heralds, ghostly choirs and d&b-isms of 'In My Blood' to the cataclysmic sonic explosions of 'Momentum', it's experimental music on a grand, ambitious scale, like the soundtrack to some internal memory movie that won't let go.