WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips

• Netherlands darkwave /techno /electro /industrial duo VOIDKULTUR “SHEDDING SKIN” debut single
  

Soberly powerful and penetrating debut from newcomer Dutch duo slowly drifts and claustrophobically tightens and loosens, to metaphysically shed the tension from the body, like a snake shedding it’s skin, through a both pounding and buzzing, seething rhythmic industrial heaviness, paired with doomy and desolate chilly synth tones and apocalyptic swirling drones over a mix of sensual ecstatic female spoken words and slowed down distorted ‘male’ vocalizations explaining “You’re body is not who you”.

• Venice, Italy new wave /synthpop duo of Alice Taylor and Nick SoLow, aka Krimea “Die-Monds”, second single from the debut “Are you human?” album
  

Italian duo delivers a spellbindingly lush, surreal yet danceable 80s-tinged swirling synth-pop, cast in a neon haze of wistful synth riffs, building a rich, dramatic atmosphere led by passionate male vocals, to rouse a magnetic sense of romance and adventure, until glitchy arcade keys and disruptive female whispers break the spell of shameless diamond slavery.

• Montreal, Québec Italo disco /synth-pop /electronic French-born artist Douce Angoisse ft. Juno Martian “Pourquoi” single
  

Montreal-based French electronic artist combines the vibrant energy of Disco with hazy French synth-pop melancholy, both grounded in the dancefloor and gripped by intimate, sad feelings, where swirling, dramatic, bright synth nostalgia and relentless pulsing hypnotic rhythms merge and dance effortlessly around soft, angsty female vocals, breathily wondering why loving another makes her love herself less, to evoke feelings of sadness and tragedy. The buzzing remix by Italo–Polish synthesist Olgha on the flip transports to a surreal futuristic dance floor.

• French dark ambient /cinematic /devotional /power electronics /noise /neo-liturgic /piano music /modern classical /poetry project by veteran artist (formerly known as Day Before Us), Philippe Blache “LETTER VI” from the conceptual album “Noctivigilus (Letters From The Dead)” [Triple Moon Records]
• Nashville-based Midwest minimal synth solo project by Dania, STACIAN “Pandora’s Ear” from the 2-track single “XO”
  
• Los Angeles post-punk/new wave /synthpop new project by Julian Ash (ex Harsh Symmetry), Omnihell – “Kurushimi” from the upcoming album “Extreme Suffering”
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina post-punk /coldwave solo project by [S], Zudpöl “Truth (New Order Cover)” from “NMER C-02 2025” compilation LP [No Me Escucho Records]
• French darksynth /darkwave /cold wave /dark pop artist MelEyes “The Sigh” single
  
• Rouen, France experimental /industrial /electronic /synthetic music solo project of Isthmaël Baudry, aka MORPHOEX “Schizodrome” from “Méta Langages” LP
  
• Montpellier, South of France, Coldwave /Post Punk duo BUZZKILL “Après la pluie” off the debut album, “Wasteland” [Ganache Records / Cœur Sur Toi Records]
• Marseille, France minimal synth /electronic artist Théo Delaunay (Succhiamo, Violent Quand On Aime, De Klok), Panoptique – “Néolithique Bondage” from V/A “Pont D’appoint V/A – 01” cassette compilation (originally released digitally in 2022 on the short-lived label Pont D’appoint) [Notte Brigante]
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /coldwave solo project VEXAGON “Human Form” from the upcoming album “I For An I” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Amiens, French darkwave /coldwave electronic project, Mario.D “Survivre” from upcoming “BRISÉ” EP
  
• Mexico City Industrial /Synthwave/New wave/Post Punk solo project Werner Karloff “Work Hard” (Depeche Mode cover) from the V/A “In your memory 2 (A tribute to Depeche Mode)” 2xCD [80s Records]
• Italo/French disco /minimal wave /synth-pop /electro-punk duo of Jules (of Zona Utopica Garantita) and Ben (1/2 of Hammershoi), Der Bürokrat “Italo Love” from the upcoming self-titled LP [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Manila, Philippines industrial /minimal wave /synthpop duo (2/5 members of Crepuscular Dawn), Perpetual Judgment “Sarpa salpa” from “DEMO MMXXV” EP
  
• London-based cold wave /synth-pop artist William Barradale, aka A Thousand Mad Things “Promises” single [Nettwerk]
• Winnipeg, Canada electronic /new wave /synthpop project, VIVA NON “Entire” single
  
• Trollhättan, Sweden synthpop project of Andreas W., The Wide Eye “Ascendant (demo mk 3)” from “Ascending Extras” EP
  
• Bordeaux, France electronic /new wave /synthpop /darkwave duo made of the Irish dark folk singer-songwriter & producer Lisa Cuthbert (Ison) and France-based US songwriter Alex Clark, aka Date With Destiny “Violent Breed” from the debut album “Rain of Despair”
  
• Jacksonville Beach, FL synthpop /new wave solo act TUFF TURF “ANOTHER LEVEL” single
  
• Miami, FL post-punk /synth rock act Lust Era “Pulso Enfermo” single
  
• Augsburg-based new wave /post-punk /darkwave Belarusian/German duo of Arthur Tsymbal and Julian Riegel, The Violent Youth – “sledy” from the upcoming album “tsvety” [Artoffact Records]
• UK/US dark electronic /synth wave collaboration, Eirene, Paris Alexander, The Stave Church “Venom Kiss” single [Blue Door Music Productions]
• Vancouver-based post-punk /darkwave /coldwave solo project Bleached Heat “Divination” off “Bleached Heat 1” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk /new wave /coldwave solo project FEVR “Too Far” single
  
• Antwerp, Belgium based Hi-NRG /Italo Disco /Cold Wave /Synth-Pop Canadian artist Tristan (FKA Arsenic Of Jabir), DVPLVX “Věza ’87” single
  
• French dark disco /electronic post-punk band The Midnight Computers “SO MANY VOICES. (ORIGINAL MIX)” from the cassette “DARK DISCO VOL. 1” EP [Worst Crime Records]
• Moscow-based EBM /avant-garde /dark wave duo of producer Disco Morato and singer Varvara Pavlovna, Disco Morato & Varvara Pavlovna “Джинн (Geistech Remix)” from “Джинн (Remixes)” EP [Maxima Culpa]
• Paris, France-based Hardbeat /Newbeat /EBM /electronic  Indian-born producer Kalyug Citizen “Alive” from the forthcoming V/A “First Transmission compilation” LP [Meteors Recordings]
• Brussels, Belgium Retro-Future /EBM /Electro-Industrial producer Analog 80 “The Last Age” single
  
• Swedish wave electronic /synthpop duo of Ian Ritzen and Stefan Kauppila  Johansson, The Ironic Sweden “Universe friend” new single
  
• Las Vegas, NV Retro /Darkwave /Synthpop solo act Ashes Tomorrow “Fail” from the debut EP ” Thyryum”
  
• Bristol, UK industrial /electro-rock /electronic pop duo Mesh “Exile (Single Edit)” [Dependent]
• Denver, CO darkwave /post-punk band Dead On A Sunday “The Necro Dance (Necromance)” (Parody of “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats) single
  
•  Blackpool, UK goth /synth wave /dark rock act led by Kyle Wilson, AUGER “Head In The Ground” single [The Big Chair]                
• New York electronic /dream-pop /electro-pop duo R. Missing “Killing the Club Heart” single
  
• Los Angeles goth /shoegaze /dream pop /post-punk duo Magic Wands “Sacred Mirrors (with John Ashton, guitarist of The Psychedelic Furs)” single [Metropolis]
• Louisville, Kentucky industrial /dark punk /post-punk band led by guitarist/vocalist R. Patterson (founding member of Coliseum) aka FOTOCRIME “Plowjob” from upcoming LP “Security” [Artoffact Records]
• Chicago-based industrial /electronic rock project of Dave McAnally, aka .SYS Machine “Doubtless” lead track from the forthcoming “Parts Unknown” album [Glitchmode Media]
• Milan, Italy post-punk/dream pop /shoegaze foursome Grace Cale “In My Sleep” single
  
• João Pessoa, Brazil Industrial /EBM /Synthpop /solo electronic Cyber Niior “Blood Disco” single
  
• New York/Washington, D.C. goth /post-punk collaboration Postlooperish x hex formes “Slow Burn” single
  
• Barcelona-based cold wave /post-punk band Low Blows “Fin” from the second S/T LP “Low Blows”
  
• France coldwave/post-punk DIY solo music project Closed Mouth “Making No Sense” single
  
• French post-punk /coldwave band from Paris, Curtain “Fire” single
  
• Seattle, WA darkwave /postpunk goth duo Loyal Object “Blue Neck” single
  
• Los Angeles Indie-Sleaze /Post Punk Revival band Warsaw Pact “Black Liner Run” (She Wants Revenge cover, 2005) from upcoming single “Weaving Spiders / Black Liner Run”
  
• Portland, OR Deathrock trio Temple “Entropy” first single off the new EP
  
• Gothic rock /darkwave duo Vampire Moon “Darkness Devotion” single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy darkwave/ post-punk solo act The Spoiled “Immacolata (feat. Aux Animaux)” single
  
• Italian post-punk /darkwave band Coldtrace “Dreams III” from “DREAMS” EP
  
• UK garage rock /punk /gothic rock solo musical project of Alex Abate, aka Dark Remains “Lead Me Astray” from the second LP “Safety In Numbers”
  
• Vienna, Austria coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “Wir 2” [A-Dur Records]
• Toulon, Illinois dark ambient /black metal /psych /dungeon synth project Hecate “Orome the Hunter” from “Beside the Water” LP
  
• UK dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth project Aura Merlin “Echo Location” from “Moon Gates” LP [Dale Of Shadows]
• Indianapolis-based raw, cosmic dungeon synth from the Other World, Electroarcana “Journey by the Light of the Stars” from “Wanderer from the Other World” LP
  
• Iowa dark ambient /drone /dungeon synth project Grave of Silent Dreams ” Hollow Ruins (demo)” long form piece