Telehealth - Mindtrap

Name: Telehealth - Mindtrap
Uploaded: 2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released October 25, 2023 via Sub Pop as a Sub Pop Singles Club 7" (digital release January 2024 for the video), 'Mindtrap' arrives at the intersection of post-COVID workplace alienation discourse and a robust underground new-wave revival. Telehealth, a Seattle band self-described as 'an ideas-driven music corporation,' deploys…

2024 · Post-COVID Synth-Punk Revival (2023–2024) · music video

2024Post-COVID Synth-Punk Revival (2023–2024)Post-punk / new-wave revival with corporate-satire conceptualism (2020s egg-punk scene)

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Released October 25, 2023 via Sub Pop as a Sub Pop Singles Club 7" (digital release January 2024 for the video), 'Mindtrap' arrives at the intersection of post-COVID workplace alienation discourse and a robust underground new-wave revival. Telehealth, a Seattle band self-described as 'an ideas-driven music corporation,' deploys corporate jargon, RTO/PTO lyrical content, and ironic green branding as pointed satire…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the 2020s egg-punk / new-wave revival, 'Mindtrap' synthesizes Devo's plastic post-punk, Kraftwerk's mechanistic precision, and the B-52s' zany energy into a contemporary critique of corporate work culture. Its Sub Pop Singles Club placement signals indie-institutional…

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