Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips – FEBRUARY #06-23
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- UK eclectic goth synth wave /darkwave solo project from Kendal, Claustraphobia “Give Me The Poison” single
New single from Klaus Devore‘s project erupts in the urgent mesmerizing impetus of swirling and haunting Billy Duffy-like guitar riffs, rapid marching drum beats, humming bass lines, and ceremonial synth glows to surround urgent restless whispers, invoking the powers of darkness brimming with angsty burning passions.
- Riverside, CA darkwave /new wave /post-punk solo project of Eddie a.k.a. LovelyEddie “Heaven Maker” single.
The new single, “Heaven Maker”, from Californian Post-punk one-man band unfurls dark haunting realms of ominously rumbling bass throbs and stark lashing drum machines underneath deep baritone breaths soaked in moody doom, pierced by sinister spectral guitar shards, swept with eerie synth melodies, uncannily cloaked with pain and fear.
- Italian Electronic /Coldwave /Post-Punk moniker of musician, Cristian HC Usai, aka LOVE OF CONSOLATION “The Third Day” from the upcoming EP “Memorie Offuscate”
First preview for the Italian DIY soloist with a first foretaste from his upcoming EP, the lo-fi, off-kilter, and uncanny “The Third Day” that stumbles its way through syncopated rhythms, jagged jumbling guitar riffs, and piercing wiry synth chimes swirling with whimsical and angsty compulsion over disconnected vocal whispers blurred in heavy confusion and oppressive moods.
- Montreal‘s ambient /new wave /synthpop /experimental pop duo Yasmine Ixe and Richard Wenger, AKA Library L’Amour “De Délites en Délire” from the upcoming “Premier Caprice” EP 12″ on Stroom label
- Vienna, Austria coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “I Feel You” single
- Coldwave /Darkwave /Minimal Synth solo project from Moscow, Minimal Unit “Я выбираю быть слабым (feat. Холодный звонок)” from the EP “Минималистичная Единица”
- Barcelona based experimental /dark wave /electro-pop artist Ela Rea “La oscuridad se hunde” from the album “Somnia: Háblame debajo del agua” on Humo International
- Olympia, WA based EBM /punk /electro-industrial noise /dark electronics artist (aka Dark Tyme), Harsh R “Empty Shell (featuring Runoti)” from the vinyl album “Seek Comfort” on Phage Tapes
- Cleveland, OH experimental /darkwave /coldwave solo project Nature Nvoke “Human Vs. Machine” single
- Moscow lo-fi /deathrock /goth rock /post-punk act, Kouthyga – “Трепещет” from the EP “Далекая Тень / Distant Shadow”
- West Yorkshire, UK goth rock solo project Ashes On The Cemetary Ground “Mount Jupiter” single
- US West Coast-based Industrial Synthpop /Cyberpunk Electro band, 2Libras – “Heart On” the second single off of 2Libras’s debut album “World’s End”
- Chicago industrial /minimal wave /electro /cold wave /synthpop project of Kill Memory Crash‘s Adam Killing, CIRCA TAPES “Cum” from “Clajsh” EP
- Portland, OR goth /darkwave synth duo Ruby Lustre “The Tears You Shed” from “Hex Box” EP
- Chicago, IL post-punk /goth pop /synthpop duo Wingtips “The Eye That Follows Suit (TRAITRS Remix)”
- Leipzig-based Darkwave /Coldwave artist Rina Pavar “Heavy Rain” (exclusive track) from the 2-track single “Light Haze” off the upcoming album “Six” on Cold Transmission
- Munich, Germany post-punk /minimal synth /coldwave trio Rue Oberkampf “Lou Et Noah (Cage Remix)”
- Swiss electronic /coldwave /darkwave /techno /synth-pop solo project, Carlo Onda “Take Me With You” single from the upcoming album “Euro89”
- Madrid/Montreal transcontinental synthpop /synthwave duo Playa Espectral “Me evaporé” from the single “Piscina Espectral”
- Leipzig/Rotterdam wave /dark electro act, Dog Balls “Tell It To My Dog” from “Tell It To My Dog” EP 12″ on Leipzig-based collective Clear Memory
- Bay Area synth-pop /minimal synth act, FIP “I Was Cooler” from 2-track Cassingle on Discontinuous Innovation Inc.
- French synth /cold wave music project (Mode In Gliany, Premier Mouvement, {IK}, OKNHO), Cinematique Inverse – “erèirrAenihcaM”
- Paris, France post-punk /coldwave solo project New Ordurr “La chute de l’ange”
- Austin, TX new wave /synthpop solo project, Holy Wire “Phantom Nihilism” single
- Saint Petersburg, Russia synth-punk /minimal synth /synthgaze band, DRIVEOVER “Distance” single
- Melbourne synthwave /synthpop duo Rain Dogs ‘Nights Are Lonely’ single
- Early 80s formed French New Wave /Cold Wave band from Marseille, Martin Dupont “He Saw The Light” from the upcoming album “Kintsugi” (re-works of songs originally released on the1980s albums) on Minimal Wave in collaboration with Meidosem and Infrastition
- French minimal electronics /electro-pop duo Pierre Pi (Komplex, Position Parallèle, Communication Zéro…) and Éric U0 (Celluloide, Thee Hyphen, Signal/Bruit…), AKA La Machine “F.F.P.2″ (digital single) on BOREDOMproduct
- Melbourne, Australia electro-pop band PARRALOX “Ghosts Again (Depeche Mode Cover)
- Los Angeles based dark electronic pop duo Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Adam Collier (Crush333, MDA and Full Frontal Disco), BLAKLIGHT “Coma” single
- German goth /darkwave /synthpop band Diary of Dreams “Viva la bestia” 2nd single of the upcoming 2023 album.
- French gothic industrial synthpop band (also known as PORN), Pure Obsessions & Red Nights “All it takes is a little fear” single
- German dark synth-pop project of DJ Tom Niebuhr, aka MONOSAPIEN “For The Night” single.
- Infacted Allstars “Greece 2000 (DJ Dominatrix Version)” from “Greece 2000” EP (a tribute to 1997 prog trance classic from Dutch duo Three Drives On A Vinyl) on Infacted Recordings
- French EBM /electro /noise /breakbeat /techno /dark electronics producers and Raar label founders Maelstrom & Louisahhh – “Vixen” off the debut album “Sustained Resistance” on RAAR
- Californian goth darkwave /synthwave act Orphan Zero “Psychic Tension” single
- Rockford, IL dark synth /synthpop /synthwave project Shadows and Mirrors “Believer” from the album “Roads” on Electric Dream Records
- Italian post-punk /coldwave /darkwave solo project, Tre Flip “Destroyer ft. Sad Madona” from “WIDE OPEN” EP
- Bay Area new wave /post-punk /synthpop project of Brendan Hagarty (Kill Helmet, Useless Eaters) & Chris Natividad (Marbled Eye, Aluminum), NATURAL PRIVACY “WITHDRAW / REPEAT” from cassette debut “EP”
- Lucerne-based Swiss post-punk /synth wave /new-wave /synthpop duo Visions in Clouds “Two In A Row – Blanche Biau Remix”
- Los Angeles post-punk /new wave /synthwave /coldwave solo project FEVR “I’LL GIVE LOVE” single
- Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk /synthpop solo project Casket Cassette “Antabuse” single
- Indonesian post-punk /deathrock band from Jakarta, Pelteras “Palang” from the EP “Palang”
- Zürich, Switzerland post-punk /darkwave /synth wave solo project Drawn Curtains “Time (Buzz Kull Cover)”
- Pizzo, Italy post-punk /new wave /darkwave band ALONE IN THE RAIN “Eutanasia” from “Anima Nera” (single)
- Indiana goth /industrial /coldwave /post-punk /darkwave project created in 2020 by Josh Kreuzman, TWICE DARK “the Plague of the Masquerade” single
- Louisville, Kentucky post-punk /darkwave duo of former members of 9voltRevolt, Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, AKA Who Saw Her Die? “Lydia” from the album “Madness Clears My Mind”
- German post-punk /synth wave band from Berlin, FIXED LENS “Extinction” from the Unterschall label‘s Cassette/CD reissue of the 2021 debut S/T EP
- Linz, Austria doom metal /gothic rock project, Jack Frost & Michelle Darkness “New Dawn Fades” off upcoming “New Dawn Fades” EP
- Poznań, Poland darkwave /post-punk band After The Sin “Leaving It All Behind” from the upcoming album “Echoes” on Bat-Cave Productions
- Berlin-based Argentinian Goth /Synthpop /Darkwave solo project Deus Ex Lumina “Revelation 12:9” single
- Turku, Finland goth rock /post-punk quartet Agnosia “Seinät” from the LP “Outo Laakso”
- US gothic rock project of Renzo Tellez, aka THE RED MOON MACABRE “Bloody Mary” single
- Birmingham, Alabama post-punk /indie rock 4-piece Wax Fur – “Bleach Dust” single on BIRTHDIY
- La Libertad, Peru hypnagogic pop /neo-psychedelic /synthpop solo project, EDL “Disregard” from the single “Disregard / Destartalado”
- Mid-80s German post-punk /goth rock band JAYHAWKS “Feel the pain” (1985) off “The Endless Mirror” retrospective compilation album (+ bonus tracks) vinyl 12″ on Dead Wax Records
- Sidney based death rock /post-punk band PLEASURE CHEST “Radar” from upcoming debut S/T album
- Early 80s Wales, UK based DIY post-punk quartet, Violin Sect “Fit & Anxious” (unreleased) from S/T ltd. 12″ vinyl EP (reissue of Violin Sect’s one and only 7″ from 1981 plus two unreleased bonus tracks) on Minimum Table Stacks
- Los Angeles-based post-punk /new wave /coldwave solo project of Chicago bred singer, songwriter and musician Vince Grant, The Sea At Midnight “Melancholia” from the remixed version of the debut album “We Share The Same Stars”
- Leipzig, Germany wave /post-punk project Mantarochen “Brille” single
- Glasgow UK post-punk /indie pop band (members of Current Affairs, Nightshift, Order of the Toad and Robert Sotelo), DANCER “Chris Whitty’s Inner World” from the debut cassette S/T EP on GoldMold Records
- Copenhagen, Denmark no wave /minimal post-punk outfit MISSVNARIES ov CHARITY “Rosy” single
- Post-Punk dVO outfit from Italy, WILT/PLVCE – “My Nothing” 4th single on Dirty Beach Records
- Quetzaltenango, Guatemala new wave /post-punk outfit GUERRA FRIA “Cartas” from the album “Cuando Todos Duermen”
- Smolensk, Russia coldwave /synthpop project from the vocalist of post-punk band Goremyka, ОТМЫЧКА [Otmichka] “Город” third single
- Post/pre/future punk /art rock band from the mountains of Northern California (members of the Baltimore band Wilderness), Vulture Feather “Inseparable” off the forthcoming debut LP on Felte
- Manchester UK-based post-hardcore /indie rock /post-punk /DIY punk band Bruise Control – “Dead On Arrival” single on TNSrecords
- Bremen, German electro-punk /NDW outfit BURNOUT OSTWEST “Der Kreislauf im Scheisshaus feat. doenerkebabe” from the album “Würzburg stärkt die Szene” on FETTHERZ RECORDS
- US garage /punk rock /synth-punk band Power Pants “Sleepover” from the debut S/T album on Sockhead Records
- Helsinki, Finland post-punk /indie rock /new wave project Primary Delusion “You Could Be Human” from the debut EP
- Pomona, CA industrial rock /shoegaze /dream pop /shoegaze band, Jaqobin – “Amoria” single
- Belgian industrial /dark electro /technopop project of Passenger S, aka METROLAND “Modularity” from the upcoming album “0” on Alfa Matrix
