[Cover photo creditto Alex Hendriks]

SF Bay Area Discopunk trio The Crooked Stuff have announced that two new singles from their upcoming LP, Synthetic Signals, which arrives on July 31, 2026, are out now.

The single “Shallow Shores” dives into “the relentless reception of today’s media pool and news ticker churn” while “Sci-Fi Radio” looks within “to find a honed state of creative energy to fuel the transmission of change.”

Vocalist Tom Gorton says:

Everyone’s feeling and seeing this relentless feed of increasingly questionable world shit these days. The solutions are grounded at the human core but right now it’s hard for anyone to even sit mentally still long enough to breathe.

Recorded in the band’s SF Bay Area studio, both tracks arose from rapid riff sketches on their Moog Little Phatty, and live drum captures and drum-machine builds, while the vocal melodies and lyrics then flowed in through their blend of hi-fi and low-fi gear.