synth-pop

Carpenter gave fans a taste of the new project last week with “Manchild,” a twangy synth-pop track that sees the singer questioning, “Why so sexy if so dumb? / And how survive the Earth so long?”

The news was announced on Wednesday on the Norwegian synth-pop band's official website in an article written by their biographer Jan Omdahl, which also revealed the singer had already undergone brain surgery twice.

After wreaking havoc and dishing out dissonance since 1981 — evolving from its early synth-pop dance roots into the industrial thrash metal chaos it’s best known for — Ministry’s band leader Al Jourgensen is finally ready to call it quits.

For the first time in decades, Jourgensen is performing early songs — largely steeped in synth-pop — which he once dismissed, now embracing the full arc of his career.

“It used to be about expressing something universal,” says Claire Evans, an artist, writer and musician best known for being half of the synth-pop duo Yacht.