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<\/a><\/p>\nVarious Artists- Systems of Romance Vol. 5<\/em> *download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n Here’s a few words on the tracks: I was going to hold off on posting this for a few more weeks, but after completing it in the late hours last night, I can’t help but share it immediately. Here we have the fifth installment of the Systems of Romance series, volume FIVE to be exact, and debatably my favorite of the bunch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,11,39,214,17,167,68,19,528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-1990s","category-2000s","category-coldwave","category-compilations","category-minimal","category-minimal-synth","category-ndw","category-post-punk","category-systems-of-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. After the Snow Melts- Clever Lines
\n2. Genetics- Final Sound
\n3. Epitaph- A Haunted Sawmill
\n4. New Year- Days Are Nights
\n5. Chanson D’Amour- WCH
\n6. In The Future- Split Level
\n7. Strange Days- Immunity
\n8. A Color- Tropic of Cancer
\n9. Run Run- Avantgarde De Luxe
\n10. Shadow Walk- Negatives in Colour
\n11. When Thunder Comes- Mission
\n12. What Goes On?- The Radiance
\n13. Desperate Rhymes- Piece De Resistance
\n14. Cover Girl- Dengon
\n15. Silly Earth- Scatterbrains
\n16. Eden- Sofia Run
\n17. On the Moon- Beyond Words
\n18. Shoot Me Down- P.S. Personal
\n19. Geraldine- Cha Boom Cha
\n20. Blind Me- Winter Severity Index
\n21. Sweet Cliche\u0301- The First Loves<\/p>\n
\n1. Plucked from the 8 Essential Attitudes<\/em> compilation. Picked it up cheap and while there are some gems, it’s mostly a mixed bag.
\n2. From the No Surrender<\/em>! compilation, an otherwise rough and tumble collection of skinhead\/oi tracks from Rock-O-Rama records.
\n3. Very rare single release, one of this band’s only tracks. Saw a release on The Trance Compilation<\/em>.
\n4. Brazilian darkwave band who released a killer album in 2010, where this track hails from.
\n5. French synth from 1984…Stay tuned for a full post on this 12”.
\n6. B-side of a 1984 minimal synth single from the UK. If you have the a-side, holler!
\n7. Plucked from a 1985 compilation entitled Sounds from the Southern Scene Vol. 1<\/em>. This band appears twice on the comp as the bookends. Their other track isn’t nearly as good, but still worth hearing.
\n8. Brand new coldwave sounds from LA, can’t get enough of this track!
\n9. Denmark band, from their first LP, released in 1982. Another track appears on SOR vol. 3<\/a>.
\n10. An unreleased track from the UK band featured here<\/a>.
\n11. Also from the 8 Essential Attitudes<\/em> comp. Guitar-driven smash, and not the same post-Sisters band!
\n12. 1990s darkwave, released on a compilation of excellent like minded souls (Derri\u00e8re Le Miroir, Lucie Cries, Frozen Autumn, all great bands)
\n13. Grabbed this 1985 12” from the US in a dollar bin. Decent new wave throughout, but this track is a standout.
\n14. Another US band who issued two singles in 1985 on ESYNC records (Velvascurge!). Mostly power-pop sounds, but this track has a nice guitar-driven edge to it. If anyone insists, I have both singles uploaded for a future post, but this one is the real treat of the lot.
\n15. Scarce minimal synth from the Netherlands. Would love to hear this full LP!
\n16. 1990s darkwave band who issued two records before splitting up.
\n17. 8 Essential Attitudes<\/em>.
\n18. 1983 synthpop single from the UK.
\n19. The standout track from this 1988 12”. Also from the UK.
\n20. Brand new (all female) post-punk\/coldwave band from Italy. A new favorite, really tremendous stuff. Keyboardist also doubles as Mushy, who just issued a full length solo LP on Mannequin Records!
\n21. I belive this track is a demo from a new post-punk band from London. Certainly sounds timeless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"