“Onto Something”, the dreamy opening synthpop track on Soviet’s new third album, would’ve been part of a perfect driving soundtrack in a convertible sports car on a summer night in the mid-1980s while watching the city lights reflect off the glass and steel of modern L.A. With hints of OMD and Cut Copy, Keith Ruggiero’s smooth vocals and the lush crystalline mixing contributions by the Pulsars’ David Trumfio let you lean back in your leather seat and enjoy. The soft male lead vox over a driving synth bass line that feels like it was echoing in a lost John Hughes film. One of those songs you swear you’ve heard before…maybe you have?
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