If you’re headed out to CMJ this year, you might just wanna stop by Webster Hall and take in some of incendiary synth-pop offered up by Brooklyn duo Secret Weapons. And if you do this, you might actually come away floating on a loud of euphoric release as the newcomers are already setting a president for pulling in a high energy performance and raising the bar even wilder at their after-show parties, so we hear.
Since launching only six months ago, the up-and-coming duo are winning over a growing fanbase by deploying their brand of super catchy synth-pop ignited with an indie-centric edge. These live performances have served the duo in creating a wave of buzz wherever they turn out, and it’s easy to see why it is that they are going down a storm, now debut single “Something New” has been unleashed.
Bold as you like pop hooks are given out with exhilarating relish and turned about with an air-punching impact of potent powered, 80’s rousing electro-pop.
On just this one debut song, I’m already of the mindset that Secret Weapons could well fit into the electronic pop landscape as the US equivalent to that of Scottish synth-pop trio Prides. A prospect that I’d readily applaud, owing mostly to the fact that Prides debut album “The Way Back Up” is already out there along with a fair few servings of singles and I’m sure attention will turn to the making of album No 2 in the near future.
Finding a new synth-pop band that are in anyway comparable to Prides is a very a good thing to my mind and that “Something New” is quite unapologetic in it’s overall HUGENESS is a bonus, most definitely.
Believe me, pressing play on this is only going to make you feel sunny!