People have described Retconned as: alienating, sounding foreign, “like walking in on your parents while they are having sex,” “like putting a drill to your head,” and sounding like a distorted version of the song ‘She Bop,’ by Cyndi Lauper.” This is all bullshit. Retconned writes pop songs. The title of Retconned’s newest release, “Game Sounds”, appears to be some malformed pun on The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”. It’s hard to determine if “game” is meant to signify a video game, a hunter’s prey, or both. Aurally, we have a beautifully catchy pop album that combines a post-punk aesthetic, general snottiness, elements of 80s synth-pop and electro, and highly dissonant and distorted synthetic textures. Lyrically, we have what appears to be some sort of everyman commentary on the relationship between globalization, pop music, surveillance, making babies, communication technologies, dirty tricks, and day-to-day life. Good.

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