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My Favorite Track: Midnight Radio Atlas by FM-84 A journey of aching wonder for yesterdayįM-84 (Col Bennett) describes his own classic album, Atlas, as “the sound of a summer long gone.” And while a lot of synthwave evokes a feeling of imagination, nostalgia, and perhaps even a bit of regret, nothing quite sums up all of these bubbling emotions like Atlas. But if you can appreciate an album that provides you with a simple setup as a vehicle to take you on a beautiful auditory journey to parts unknown, find a way to track down Supernova. If you want a synthwave album that allows you to solely fill in the blanks-where there are no explicit characters or story present-perhaps Supernova is not for you. Music in general can alter moods, but synthwave can expand imagination. What I love about synthwave is that it’s a musical art form crafted to allow the listener to actively participate in a story of the mind. In fact, this album is the musical embodiment of the “hero’s journey.” The track “Victory” starts with catharsis and slowly builds to joy, and “Go Back Home” brings us back to the hero’s theme, but with the feeling that better days are on the horizon for both Supernova and Artemis. “Beyond the Stars” reignites our optimism for a successful mission, before Willis brings in “Dark Empire”-and you feel this is where Supernova has truly reached his lowest point.īut this is a hero’s story. By the time we arrive to “I Miss You,” we get a Daft Punk-style longing for love.

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The second track “Supernova” is an emphatic hero’s theme, full of confidence and strength and determination.

Supernova then embarks on an expansive journey to save Artemis, and musically, this album captures all of the hope, sadness, fear, and triumph you’d expect from an imaginative trip through space and time. The evil Professor Omega has killed all of the universe’s heroes and has captured Princess Artemis, the sole love of the titular hero Supernova. The story behind Supernova feels like something out of Japanese anime (I’m not even an avid anime fan, but just look at that cover). But in its more quiet moments, it’s a romantic space opera full of love, loss, and redemption. This album, which comes on beautiful (and pretty unique) gold colored vinyl, feels like an intergalactic video game. If you like positivity and explicit storytelling in your synthwave music, then Supernova is for you. Supernova by Morgan Willis An imaginative, upbeat sci-fi rescue mission

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So let’s start this countdown off with an album by Morgan Willis entitled “Supernova.” Oh, and feel free to use the Table of Contents (below) to skip around as you please-my feelings won’t be hurt. So if you don’t see certain albums that fit into that subgenre, well, that’s why. One sub-genre I appreciate, but don’t collect, is dark synthwave. One quick note: the synthwave genre is full of a diverse group of sub-genres. At the end of my list, I’ll also include a handful of albums that I think are very worthy Honorable Mentions, as well. In this article, I’m going to provide you with what I believe are the 25 best synthwave albums on vinyl (from my perspective only, of course)-just in case you’ve caught the synthwave bug like me (and have a little bit of disposable income to burn). And albums that take me on a journey into my own imagination.Īnd much to my wallet’s dismay- a lot of this great music has been released on vinyl. I’ve eagerly swallowed the Red Pill, opening my eyes to a world of talented artists, vocalists, and music producers.

I’ve amassed a large collection of vinyl over the years from my favorite genres of music (most notably R&B and Soul), but no genre in recent memory has deeply entrenched its hooks into me quite like synthwave.

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