DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Out of Body (10th Anniversary) - DIGICD

One of the leading lights of the ever-burgeoning synthwave movement, Los Angeles' DANCE WITH THE DEAD made their full-length debut in 2013 with the now-classic Out of Body. The album featured all the hallmarks of synthwave - percolating melodies, pulsating bass, and deft & dramatic shifts in texture, always with electric energy and piston-precise propulsion - but the unique factor is the duo's metal background, which manifests itself in the haunting horror-movie feel of many / most of the album's tracks. That sensation unfolds as the album pulses onward, indeed making Out of Body feel like the soundtrack to a movie that never was (or yet is).