Tesla Boy - modern thrills

This band from Russia must have wandered into the Siberian wastes some time around 1985, got frozen solid like a Mammoth and then were defrosted by global warming to return to the world of music in the 2010s with their brand of infectious synth pop.

Tesla Boy have some very good pop tunes indeed, such as the anthemic "Rebecca", which sounds like a lost A-Ha classic. "Synthetic prince" is a harder disco edged track with some great 80s dance grooves. "Thinking of you" has another great 80s dance groove and reminds me of some of the great boy bands from the early 80s especially. "Electric lady" is probably the most overtly 80s synth pop track and is terrific with its retro-futurism.

Its hard to really fault this album... you will either love it (if you are like me a synth obsessed hipster) or hate it (if you believe the 80s should have stayed dead). Maybe if you fall into the latter give it a go anyway, they hit the pop nexus for sure. Great tunes, great grooves, great synths, just great!