Kasablanca Expand Their Neon Universe On New Album, “Higher Resolution: Side B”

Out now via Anjunabeats, the album finds Kasablanca world-building with intention.

Kasablanca have always channeled a kind of digital romanticism, pairing driving synthwave with a live setup built to blur the line between DJ set and full live performance. But for all the retro gloss and circuitry, there’s always been a human pulse under the surface, one that became impossible to ignore last year.

Micky’s shocking cancer diagnosis and eventual recovery became the gravitational force behind Higher Resolution, the duo’s debut album released in two halves. Over a year after the release of Side A, Higher Resolution: Side B lands like another moment of clarity.

Across 12 tracks, Kasablanca stretch their hybrid identity as part synthwave revivalists and part 80s-pop futurists. Their music has always leaned cinematic, but the analog warmth this time is being generated by people who’ve actually fought through something.

The opener, “Better Today Better Tomorrow,” makes its intention obvious. The song ascends on aerodynamic pads and a steady, disco-lit bassline. Kasablanca incorporate their familiar signatures including vocals that slip between human and processed, which tracks like “Audio Machina” lean fully into. By contrast, “Time” drifts into a slow exhale where the duo indulge their more introspective instincts, while “Television” snaps the spell with a burst of art-pop brightness, threading funky bass guitar beneath the track’s hook.

By the album’s final stretch, Kasablanca are world-building in their own right. They’re still working in familiar retro textures and melodic-techno sensibilities, but the scale feels upgraded, as if Higher Resolution isn’t just the title, but their ambition.

You can listen to Higher Resolution Side B below and find the new album on streaming services here.