Baldhero & Van Whelan Ottawa, Ontario
Kicking open the next sonic frontier, BHVW insist that all synthwave isn't created equal. The latest album, “Hero’s Journey”, charts the rise of a protagonist riding the soundtrack of some of the most familiar sounds you’ve never heard before. Indebted to the past, never derivative, yet at once accessible and challenging, nostalgic and progressive and unabashedly your father’s synthwave. ... more
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