Video Age

The aptly named Video Age make mellow synthesizer pop that touches on '80s pop, new wave, AM pop, and other adjacent styles. The New Orleans duo emerged in 2016 with the punk-tinged Living Alone. They committed more fully to jazzier guitar tones and bright, '80s Casio-eliciting timbres thereafter, including on their Winspear label debut, 2020's Pleasure Line, and the more broad-ranging follow-up, 2023's Away from the Castle, which also included brief digressions into disco, country-rock, and more. It was their first set to be recorded with their touring band in the same room. ...