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The record offers a cohesively chaotic vision for the future — razor-sharp synths set ablaze in digital audio workstations, drums modulated to frequencies at the edge of the ear’s functional limit, and lyrics like mantras punching straight through to one’s lizard brain. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025 On the record, audiophiles can hear celestial and gentle percussion, thumping bass, hypnotic synths, Gray’s own vocals, a buildup that crescendos into a drop that sparks pure elation, symphonic sounds and more. Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 And after a decade of relying more and more heavily on synths, Rush started to turn down the keyboards and turn up the guitars. Al Shipley, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2025 Doomsday synths and a percussive heartbeat backdrop lyrics that bask in solitude and beckon toward death. Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for synth

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First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of synth was in 1976

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“Synth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synth. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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