With People in the Sun, Powerplant—aka London’s Theo Zhykharyev—succeeds in marrying the streamlined synth-punk punch of Ausmuteants with the DIY dance-party mania of Quintron. You can shake it to the primitive drum-machine beat of “Hey Mr. Dogman!” but there’s also a woozy psychedelia running through song’s unsteady synthesizer. Elsewhere, Zhykharyev languishes in dreamy new wave (“Take My Money!”) and adopts Suicide’s gothy aesthetic (“In the Garden”). Still, it’s the bangers here that are undeniable.

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