Christian Synthpop?

[Christianmonkey]

I've been searching for Christian bands who sound Synthpop/New Wave. Does anybody know some bands that sound like 80s bands, like: Depeche Mode, New Order, the Smiths, Talking Heads, Gary Numan, Soft Cell. I've listened to some Joy Electric, but didn't really like it. Can anybody help me? Thanks.

 

[TheDandyMan]

If you're looking for Christian, you won't find a great deal of synthpop that Ronnie Martin (aka joy electric) is not associated with. I'm curious as to what you've heard from him, because he's changed a great deal over his career, and you may like a current release more than his early stuff, vice versa.

The only other Christian synthpop I know of is Ronnie's lable, plastiqmusiq, and flamingfish.com, which also has a great deal of industrial stuff. But, on the secular side of things, definitely look into kraftwerk, who (I believe) was a big influence on many of the bands you mentioned. Minimum-Maximum, their newest CD (a live two-disc set) blows all the studio editions of the songs out of the water. The Faint is also a pretty big group right now, and they're classified as synthpop, but I don't know if that's completely accurate.

 

[Ginsu]

Yup, Yup, Yup! As Dandy said...

http://www.flamingfish.com/links/index.php?genre_id=4

I'd personaly would like to recommend, Fine China- When the World sings. www.youmakemehatemusic.com
Elkland- www.elkland.net
Goodnight Star, www.goodnightstar.com
Plinq- www.miniaturerecords.com/
Zwerg- www.zwerg.ca
The Dignity of Labour- www.tdol.us/
ThouShaltNot- www.thoushalt.net/

 

[WintarNaht]

Check out Tooth and Nail's Plastiq Musiq section.

 

[Here_I_am]

I do believe that "The Echoing Green" fits into the synthpop catagory. I like their latest release, "The Winter of Discontentment".

 

[JaelWasWickedCool]

i'll second the fine china recommendation. they're a lot of fun.

 

[WintarNaht]

The Echoing Green rocks

 

[Here_I_am]

You can download the song "The Story of Our Lives by The Echoing Green" for free(yes, legally) at www.amazon.com. check in the music downloads section.

 

[deep_thought_generator]

i came across a band called Shout not very long ago. most of there songs sound 80's-early 90's. a few of them are a lil strange, but for the most part it might be what you are looking for.

God Bless

 

[HundredFootKrutch]

While I"m not 100% sure what exactly synthpop is, I think I have a general idea of it. My recomendation would be MuteMath. I have their EP, it's pretty good, they haven't released a full length album yet.

so yeah...

 

[Here_I_am]

Mutemath=awesome

 

[WintarNaht]

I agree!

 

[Sketcher]

I don't know if Sheltershed is synth-pop per se, but at least give them a listen. They've got the English accents and reverb, their music is electronic. Just not 80's style.

 

[TheDandyMan]

The remix sheltershed did on joy electric's friend of mannequin ep is nothing short of astounding.

 

[missionaryofgod]

Hello!
This is a late reply but I have a lot of bands for you

Intuition (American band sounds a lot like Erasure)
Crumbächer (Americans in the Alphaville, Men without hats style)
Painted orange (More like Depeche mode)
I satellite (Very 80´s style)
Situation (Depeche-Erasure style)
Quickflight (More New wawe/new romantic-style)
Mad at the world( Depeche mode-style on the first two records)
Red sector one (canadian band sounds like Yazoo/Erasure)

My favourite is Intuition

Good luck!

Robert, Sweden.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

I'm gonna have to look some of these up.

 

[Lord Of The Forest]

E Nomine.

 

[fredpauly]

I've been searching for Christian bands who sound Synthpop/New Wave. Does anybody know some bands that sound like 80s bands, like: Depeche Mode, New Order, the Smiths, Talking Heads, Gary Numan, Soft Cell. I've listened to some Joy Electric, but didn't really like it. Can anybody help me? Thanks.

Some Christian synthpop bands you can check out are: The Echoing Green, Painted Orange, Rubicon 7, Red Sector 1, Norway or Christian influence synthpop bands Intuition and Leaidorias (maybe spelled wrong).