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

Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – FEBRUARY 2025 – #05-25

Every Tuesday EXHYDRIA Radio // poster by Nassia Var

It is the 8th consecutive season for Mike D (longtime editor of the team WL//WH) on-air, and some things have changed. There is no more Loud Cities radio show, but now there is the Wave After Wave radio program on the amazing new internet station ExhȳdriaRadio“embrace the extraordinaire.”

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • Richmond, Virginia indie /new wave /post-punk trio Shadow Age “Hooky” single

In a week where Petrified Entity remained unusually quiet, the void from Richmond, VA has been filled by, on the contrary, the not so prolific veteran three-piece Shadow Age with their impeccable, highly emotional, classic guitar-laden Post-punk adjacent to Indie Rock and Shoegaze sounds. A song about running away from a painful and bitter reality, wrapped up in earnest melancholy, woven by poignant atmospheric guitar, on an urgent carpet of incessant percussions and humming pulsing basslines, injecting piercing pain-fueled melodies against softly sad, aching vocals, longing to escape into a loved one’s peaceful comfort.

  • João Pessoa, Brazil gothic /EBM /coldwave /darkwave /electronic music project Cyber Niior “Blurred Visions” single

Brazilian dark and cold electronic music project unfolds a harsh and taut rhythmic floor of slashing snare beats, crispy claps and obsessive burbled bass pulses, surrounded by eerie gleamy synth motifs, and haunted celestial chants, to inject mystery and drama over cold, seductive spoken word vocals, longing to spark a flame of desire.

  • Pomona, CA goth /industrial /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic solo project RŒNTGEN “Process, Procedure” single

Enigmatic dark beat-driven project returns as usual every two years with a both baleful and brooding, danceable dark electro track that deals with conformity and will-less action, delivered by cold sterile, emotionless vocals that hover spectrally over an impending droning ambience, carved by hypnotic, mechanical lashing beats alongside rumbling and stuttering bass menace.

  • Berlin-based ambient /holy minimalism /pastoral psychedelia /harp /folklore /wyrd folk singer-songwriter, Andy Aquarius “Der Brunnen” from the EP “Holy Glade”
  • Minneapolis goth /dark electronic /darkwave /post-punk trio formed in 1994Autumn “Venice” from our upcoming album, “Songs about Dying”
  • Lucerne, Switzerland synth-pop /post-punk /new wave quartet Visions In Clouds “Aperol” single
  • Berlin-based Colombian experimental /electronic pop musician, performer, composer, and sound artist, Lucrecia Dalt – “cosa rara (ft. David Sylvian)” off “cosa rara” EP 7″ [RVNG Intl.]
  • Mexico lo-fi /new wave /coldwave /post-punk DIY solo project (aka Imágenes Retro), DARKØ “Psychic TV” from “Demos” EP
  • Norfolk, UK post-punk band Sea Cadets “Kicks” singles
  • Marseille, France new wave /post-punk band Ask The Light “Kiss” from “Paradox” album
  • Hamburg, Germany new wave /post-punk duo Goblyn “Weight” from the debut LP “Stray” [la pochette surprise records]
  • Nantes, France dark wave /post-punk /coldwave solo project Faits d’hiver “Les gens” from “Le mensonge règne” EP
  • Italian Darkwave /Post-Punk one-man band from Villa Latina, IC2 “A Better Way (Remix)” single
  • Los Angeles goth /post-punk /synth-pop solo project Casket Cassette “Broken Tomorrow” single
  • Berlin-based Surf /Dark Wave /Post-Punk /Cold-Punk band  ELEKTROKOHLE “Agst” from “Kalt Wie Du Bist” 12″ LP [Oráculo Records]
  • San Antonio, Texas-based goth /post-punk /darkwave /synthwave solo project, Night Ritualz “Sharing Skin” single [Metropolis Records]
  • Nashville, Tennessee goth /post-punk /wave /synthpop music project by Jay Leo Phillips, General Trust “Apologia” single [YK Records]
  • Berlin-based Darkgaze, Industrial, Blackened Synthpop DIY one-man-project of Alexander Leonard Donat ( Fir Cone Children, Leonard Las Vegas, Feverdreamt…), Vlimmer “Ungleichgewicht” from “Diskomfort” EP [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
  • Oakland, CA-based Synthwave /Darkwave /Neo-Goth duo, 55CASTLES “Cries in Paisley (ft. Grizz)” single
  • Portland, OR-based EBM /industrial /darkwave solo project Dancing Plague “Fall Apart With You” single [Artoffact Records]
  • Athens, Greece experimental /new wave /minimal wave DIY duo Lampros & Fani, aka Savoya/Σαβοΐα “Όλα είναι άλγεβρα” from “Savoya III” EP
  • French electro /minimal wave duo of Bordeaux based, Guillaume Laidain (The Garçon) and Berlin-based, Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed), aka H​.​L​.​M. – “Ruines, Béton & Industrie” title track of the upcoming LP “Ruines, B​é​ton & Industrie” [L P S]
  • Hamburg, Germany Techno /Darkwave duo SIIE “Cité Lunaire” single [Cold Transmission Music]
  • German Glitter Wave /Electronic Music project Tilly Electronics “Rotwein” single
  • French new wave /minimal electronic /electronic-pop solo project of Celluloide‘s keyboardist aka Member U-0176, THEE HYPHEN “Digital (Numérique)” from “Digital” EP [BOREDOMproduct]
  • Mexico City dark electronics /cold wave /minimal synthwave music project of Angel Kauff, a.k.a. Stockhaussen “Tiempos Modernos” from “Tiempos Modernos (Inedit songs 2014 – 2017)”
  • Brownsville, TX new wave/coldwave/post-punk duo TWIN TRIBES “Monolith (Qual Remix)” from the EP “Monolith Remixes: V”
  • Stockholm-based dub /hip-hop /grime /no wave /post-punk, /disco /proto-body /electro duo of Martin Thomasson and Johan Skugg, aka Harlem Electronics – “Blow by Blow” off upcoming 8-track LP “Cage” [VEYL]
  • Swedish industrial /synth-pop collaboration Majestoluxe & Emmon “Blood on the Ceiling (Smal Slips Remix)” from “Blood on the Ceiling (Dwayne Sodahberk Remixes) feat. EMMON” EP [Icons Creating Evil Art]
  • UK/US rave /dark electronic /witch house collaboration Sidewalks and Skeletons x SUFFER RING “Abandon” single  [Re:Mission Entertainment]
  • Victoria, BC Electronic /Industrial project, Port Authority “Terminal” off debut “Sessions: Volume 1” EP
  • Düsseldorf, Germany electro industrial duo SKREN “Strom” single
  • Danish industrial /synthpop /EBM /dark electronic solo project, ee:man “Drifting” from “Visions of a Dark Mind” EP
  • Zurich-based new wave /synth-pop project by Markus Weber (Veil of Light), SLEEP FOREVER “Pacific Wild” from the “Alter Ego” LP [DKA Records]
  • Stockholm, Sweden new wave /synth-pop duo Red Cell “King and Queen in Ghost Town” single
  • Viennese coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “Let The Darkness Take Your Soul” single [A-Dur Records]
  • North Carolina goth post-punk solo project SAIPH “Maiden of the Veil” single
  • Connecticut goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project, Prison Planet “Lost it All” single
  • Italian darkwave band from Naples, Neila Invo – “MADONNE ELETTRICHE” single
  • Paris-based Minsk-native goth /coldwave solo project Tout Debord “море без края” single
  • New York-based indie rock /new wave /post-punk solo project, Stare Away “Through and On” single
  • Chicago-based indie rock /new wave /post-punk band French Police “FRENCH TIPS” from “ESPERA” EP
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based coldwave /post-punk group The True Faith “Leave It Alone” from “The True Faith/Demmers Split” 7″ single [Council Records]
  • Leeds, UK post-punk 3-piece Avacet “Second Skin” single
  • Bay Area-based shoegaze /post-punk band Topographies “Black Rain” from upcoming EP “Brutality of Fact”
  • Los Angeles-based synth-wave /post-punk one-man-band Nass//zuruck “Wasted Youth” from s/t EP
  • London-based noise rock /experimental punk /post-punk trio Girls In Synthesis “Internal Politics [Unreleased Original Mix]” from “The Farewell E.P – Fan The Flames [Unreleased Original Mixes]”
  • Leipzig/Halle post-punk /punk band Embargo “EMBARGO” from debut “DEMO” EP
  • Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico Bedroom-Core /Trash /Punk /Rock’n’Roll act led by V.Tiers, aka Jacket Burner “Mere Mortals” from 7″ EP “Tonite” [Goodbye Boozy]
  • Puebla, Mexico gothic /darkwave /post-punk solo act Abkantz “Nictófila (DeliriumT Versión)” [Dark Grave]
  • New Jersey dark ambient /dark synth /drone synth /dungeon synth solo act Darkest Dungeons– “Evil” from the cassette album “Fortress of Ultimate Darkness” [Fiadh Productions]
  • French dark ambient /medieval /dungeon synth project of the artist-composer from the black metal group Terreur Nocturne, aka Règne “Old Memory” from the LP “A Great Squeleton In The Castle Streets”
  • Quebec City dark ambient /drone /dungeon synth act Divinus Deus “V – Logos” from “Lamentatio Templi” LP

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