Those Germans know their synth music. One of my favourite bands of “recent years” (in terms of discovery rather than actual age, natch) is The Twins, a synth-pop duo whose back catalogue I have begun to assemble. My most recent acquisition of theirs is Hold On To Your Dreams.

Even more recently, though, and at least a little more relevant to modernity (had I found it a few weeks earlier it might have fitted nicely into Old Men of Music), I’ve encountered an album by Alphaville from 2010, called Catching Rays On Giant…

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