Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips – FEBRUARY #05-23
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- International electronic pop trio Adam Collier (BlakLight, Beautiful Crisis), Marie Williamson (Agency-V, Numana State & AfterDark) & Brian Belknap (BlakLight, Mind Machine), AKA SilverScene “Heart” debut single
Debuting a new international electronic pop trio, with long-time members of the Synth-pop scene and above all quite active in recent years, such as Californian artists Adam Collier and Brian Belknap, among others together in BlakLight, to which has been added the English singer-songwriter Marie Williamson, with a classic stirring and melancholic, vaguely dark, song that infuses intoxicating emotional layers of love and adoration to wind twinkling icy bright synth melodies, warm orchestral sweeps, and heart-skipping beats around an array of evocative male/female vocal layerings, casting comfort, insight, and support through life’s harder times.
- Georgia‘s gothic punk /post-punk solo project TATIL 22 “ERIHA” single
Doomer style gloomy and epic Georgian Post-punk sung in the Kartvelian language, bounces off through urgent, rushing ripples of obsessively despairing glistening guitar lines, steady perky drum beats, wistful flashing synth swells, and bleak rumbling basslines to provide intense solemn baritone vocals with comfort as relentless cold eternal sadness take hold.
- Columbus, Ohio post-punk /gothic rock solo project Graal “Under My Thumb” (The Rolling Stones Cover)
A faster, more anxious, and squeakier, absolutely dragging, reinterpretation from Ohio’s Graal of the 1966 controversial RS anthem, through churning layers of choppy bursting guitar distortion, anxious wiry swirling synth melodies, rumbling basslines and heavy trotting beats, to fuel equal sassy swaggering vocal intensity, arousing strains of a chaotic sexual power struggle as opposed to the original sneaky, cavalier one.
- London-based ambient /ethereal wave / neo-classical project from Dutch musician, composer and former Clan of Xymox keyboardist, Pieter Nooten "Beauty June" from the upcoming LP "Someone There" on Rocket Gìrl
- North American ambient /ethereal /dark wave /dream pop multi-instrumentalist and producer Alethea Leventhal, aka Ships In The Night "Subnivean" from "Asleep In Midwinter" EP
- Rome based cold wave /synth pop /dark electronic French producer and singer, Justine Forever - "Viral" from V/A "From Above Vol. 3" compilation on Lumière Noire
- Greek dark electronic independent artist based in Athens, George Georgalas aka DAGON “Jean In China” from the new album “Adam Krueger”
- Montreal, Quebec lo-fi /electronic /synthpop solo project of MD (ex singer-guitarist of duo Calomine), Nœud – “Futurex” single
- Barcelona based new wave /coldwave /post-punk band Belgrado - 'Boixar' from the upcoming LP 'Intra Apogeum' via La Vida Es Un Mus
- French electro /coldwave /darkwave project of Parisian artist Remi Lauvergne, AKA Sad Madona “Craving” single
- Saint Petersburg, Russia post-punk /cold wave solo project, Пожар "Моя тьма" from the new EP "Настоящее"
- Bern, Switzerland industrial /post-punk /synthpop /minimal synth wave collective PLAGUE PITS “Velvet Glove" from upcoming EP "The Light”
- Iranian-born wave /minimal synth solo female electronic project of Tushna Pirrongelli based in Miami, NINA BELIEF “The Last Time (Automelodi Mix)" from the third double vinyl album "Vessel Of Voices"
- Athens-based, Greek hardware dark synth dance duo Kriistal Ann and Toxic Razor, AKA Paradox Obscur "Afterhours" from "Afterhours" EP
- Mexico City minimal wave /minimal synth solo project of Iván Porto, aka Obsolenia “Recuerdos” single on We Are One Records
- Berlin based lo-fi minimal synth-wave solo project of one half of DAS DAS, Cosey Mueller “Parallel Gekreuzt" from the new album "Irrational Habits" cassette /vinyl on Static Age Musik
- Hamburg-based Post-Punk /Cold Dark Wave German–Mexican duo Videotraum "Wehmut (Herbst Version)" off upcoming "CRAVE TAPES SPLIT EP I" with Lorenzo Mancino [Crave Tapes]
- Sheffield, UK Darkwave /Electropop duo PROMENADE CINEMA "On Video" from "DARK DESIGNS" EP
- Eskilstuna, Sweden synthpop duo Louise & Peter Marchione (AKA Thermostatic, Planet R, Stugan, Helm & Light Parade), Coppia "Happy Heart" second single on Modernshortcuts
- Californian dark-electro pop duo of founder James Edward along with Frank Shark, aka MALE TEARS "I Expire" from the upcoming LP "Crypt" on Avant! Records
- New London, Connecticut Synth Wave /Darkwave /Devotional EBM solo act Revenge Body “The Stranger” single
- Hungarian post-punk /synthpop duo Post Analog Disorder – “Nap És Hold” single
- Mexican synth electronic /chiptune /post-punk /deathwave solo project from Monterrey, Vestron Vulture “Ich Liebe Techno” single
- Finnish darkwave /EBM project LUCIDWARD “Lamppuni piru” (Single)
- Psychic TV - "Jigsaw (WLDV Edit)" [originally off the 1990 album "Towards Thee Infinite Beat"]
- Electronic /cold wave /acid French chansonnier, PHOTO RATÉE “J'ai Toujours Aimé Ta Vitesse (prod. Isidore)” from the split EP “Les Abysses de la hess” with Nestor Makhno on his own label Maison Acid
- Polish electropop /electroclash /synthpop act ROZMAZANI - "Zamykam Oczy" from the album "Hard Times" [Periphylla]
- Smolensk, Russia coldwave /synthpop project from the vocalist of post-punk band Goremyka, ОТМЫЧКА [Otmichka] “Встречный ветер” second single
- Chatham, UK electro-industrial /darkwave act Dead Blood Cells "Locked Away" (Dicepeople remix)" from the remix EP "Unlocked"
- Moscow goth /electronic dark pop act APNOIE - "Magic Stuff" single on darkTunes
- San Diego, CA indie /dream pop /synthpop band TWIN RITUAL “Allie” new single
- Swedish alt rock /synthpop band Ember Twin "Skin" single
- Franklin, Massachusetts synthpop collaboration of musician Tom Shear (Assemblage 23) & vocalist Mari Kattman (Day Twelve, Mari & The Ghost), AKA Helix "For Bill" single
- Norway's electronic /future pop /synthpop musician KIM LUNNER “You Are the Fire. I Am the Stone” (Single) on Town And Towers Records
- Melbourne-based Cold Wave /Post-punk /Synthpop solo project of Peter Endall (keyboardist for '80s band Schizo Scherzo), Suburban Spell "The Lonely Man (William Faith remix" from "Split Levels - Remixes" EP
- L.A. based Dark Wave Doom project of Christian Granquist & Johnathan Mooney, aka JOHNATHAN|CHRISTIAN "Strip Me" off "Strip Me" EP
- Montevideo, Uruguay wave /darkwave / post-punk act Anonima "Plástico en mi bahia" from "Mar de Plástico" EP
- Belgian cold wave / post-punk band The Ultimate Dreamers "A Day In The Life" from "Echoing Reverie" (Vinyl EP) via Wave Tension Records
- Darkwave /post-punk /dark synth project of Sydney-based Ant Banister (Sounds Like Winter, Lunar Module, Def FX) and Colin Gallagher (Burnt Souls), along with US guitarist Bruce Nullify (Orcus Nullify) and live member Adrian Leppard, AKA Sequential Zero “It's Not About You” from “Fifth Sequence” fifth and final two track single from the SEQUENCE series
- New York post-punk /darkwave duo, A Cloud of Ravens 'Requiem for the Sun' third single from A Cloud of Ravens' upcoming LP 'LOST HYMNS' on Nexilis/Schubert Music Europe
- Patras-based Greek Cold Wave /Darkwave duo Konstantin (vocals /keys) and Dionisis (guitar /bass /keys) AKA Grey Gallows "Dying Light" first single off the upcoming album "Strangers" on Cold Transmission
- Portuguese Goth /Post-Punk /Darkwave band from Lisbon, SHE PLEASURES HERSELF “INSOMNIA” from upcoming LP "LATEX" on Manic Depression Records
- San José, Costa Rica Death Rock /Post-Punk 4-piece Angustia Espiritual “Asco” from the debut album "Visión Trágica"
- Greek Gothic Rock /Darkwave act, Reflection Black "No Stars In The Sky" from upcoming LP "Last Stop To Nowhere" on SwissDarkNights Label
- Berlin based NDW /no-punk /synth-punk solo project of one half of Das Das, SCHWUND “Liest Du mein Gesicht” from the second album “DIEEZER TÜBE 2” on Phantom Records
- Italian anarcho post-punk band from Milan, A CULTURE OF KILLING “Take me away” from the third S/T album on Drunken Sailor Records
- Auckland, New Zealand electronic /dance punk artist Tessa Forde AKA Vanessa Worm – “Devils Game” from the second LP "Mosaics"
- Miami, FL industrial /new wave /no-wave /post-punk performance art band DONZII “Green Elevator" from upcoming LP "For the People" on Grey Market Records and Born Losers Records
- Rotterdam post-punk 5-piece Tramhaus “The Goat” new 2-track 7" single on Subroutine Records
- Lyon/Toulouse, French indie /post-punk /noise rock trio Tombouctou "Claps On Waves" from the sophomore LP "Tricky Floors" a co-release by Hidden Bay Records, Araki, Cheap Satanism, Day Off, Last Disorder, Permafrost, Pied de biche, Poutrage Records & Atypeek
- Berlin based goth /noise rock /post-punk threesome William Bleak “Viva Lost Love” new single
- Leeds, UK industrial /post-punk band AUTOBAHN - 'Post-History' off the third album, 'Ecstasy Of Ruin', due for release on April 28th via Tough Love
- Michigan new wave /electronic /post-punk /gothic rock band led by Damien Moyal (ex-frontman of 90s hardcore punk band As Friends Rust), AKA Damien Done "Pray For Me" from the upcoming LP "Total Power" on Mind Over Matter Records
- Austin, TX doom / post-industrial / post-punk duo DEEP CROSS “For Janus” from the upcoming new album “Royal Water” via Roman Numeral Records and Somatic
- Brooklyn, NY dance /no-wave /post-punk /noise 4-piece MODEL/ACTRIZ “Amaranth” off the upcoming debut LP “Dogsbody” on True Panther
- Brescia, Italy wave /psych /garage punk 5-piece (members of Bee Bee Sea and Miss Chain & The Broken Heels), Yonic South ‘DEVO Challenge Cup’ EP on Wild Honey Records
- Persian Darkwave outfit Semuru "The Downfall" single on Detriti Records
- Belarus coldwave /post-punk band from Minsk, Nürnberg "Pytanni" from "Ahida" EP on Young And Cold Records
- Sweden indie /wave /post-punk duo Missionären från Mars "Hjärta av Sten" from the debut "Missionären från Mars EP
- Bucharest, Romania doomer /darkwave /post-punk act Stația Nouă "Câmpuri Reci" single
- Vienna, Austria-based cold wave /dark wave project of Mikhail Shlepin, AKA Скубут “Insasis” single.
- Anglo–Argentinian, Europa-based New wave /Synthpop /Post-Punk duo Night Hexe “Take My Heart Remaster”
- Australian Post-Punk / Surf-Goth act from Melbourne, Desmond Doom “Sky” single
- Barnaul, Russia lo-fi /new wave /post-punk one-man project, юность-1201 [yunost-1201] “словно вчера” single.
- Post-punk / Indie /New Wave solo project from Latvia, ANAIT - "Сны" single
- Kharkiv, Ukraine gothic rock /darkwave /synth wave /post-punk artist Hans Helwinden - "Life Is Beautiful" single
- Leipzig, Germany post-punk /coldwave solo project sektion 27 "Power Cut"