Synthetic is Chloe Love trading live-band heat for something colder and more deliberate—drum machines, gated reverb, and a voice that sounds like it's confessing something it shouldn't. Twenty-two tracks deep, it's a concept record about wanting something so much you stop caring whether it's real, and it opens with the title track doing all the convincing. At over five minutes, "Synthetic" is the album's full statement of intent: a full-throttle 80s disco banger built around laser-blue lighting, mirrored dancefloors, and a chorus that keeps escalating—verses that build into a pre-chorus surge, a full synth-and-sax breakdown, and a final chorus that pushes the hook higher and harder than the one before it. It's dreamwave and synthpop played at maximum wattage—glamorous, a little dangerous, and built to fill a floor until 2am.
Between "Automatic Attraction," "Mercy Machine," and "Blue Neon Pink Backlight," this is Chloe Love at her most machine-hearted—every hook engineered to hit, every heartbreak dressed up in chrome.