​Brooklyn's Elika is another great addition to the shoegaze revival that's been swaddling New York like a technicolor dreampopcoat for the last four years. But the retro-futurist duo spills their gooey textures on their laptops, exploring a human and delicate version of the electrogush of M83 or Ulrich Schnauss. Elika's latest album, Always The Light (due March 5 via shimmergaze depot Saint Marie Records), revels in firefly-blinking electropulse, gushy woosh and the dusky Madonna-gone-indie melodies of vocalist Evagelia Maravelias. First taste "No One Gets Lost" hums like a choir of harmoniums teaming with a glitchy drum machine, deeply exploring themes of life and loss.

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