What Am I Gonna Do?by Jex Opolis

Jered Stuffco calls his new album a "midlife crisis with drum machines," recorded while he awaited his first child and his 40th birthday. The Canadian artist's music has always had one foot in the past—his breakthrough album Ravines saw him reconstructing Italo disco, Minneapolis funk and early house music—but Net Worth dives headfirst into childhood nostalgia. Stuffco says that, after deleting social media to focus on the record, only his favourite records by the likes of Depeche Mode and New Order could give him the "dopamine hits" he craved. As a result, Net Worth is something of a transformation, or at least a trip back in time, moving from soulful funk to '80s new wave and post-punk, with all of the dazzling musicianship of his past records. jexopolis.bandcamp.com

Sumptuous synth pop from NYC's Jex Opolis - jexopolis.bandcamp.com