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

• Philadelphia-based surf goth /indie rock /new wave /post-punk solo project Stare Away “First Drag” single
  

Fusing moody Post-Punk leanings with early The Strokes-like Garagey-Indie Rock guitar tones, “First Drag” is a sentimental song about first love that ignites an urgent throbbing of unremitting steady drums and obsessive hummable bass lines, whilst sparkling poignant jangly guitar echoes overlaid with nervous crunchy riffs sway in a highly emotional intensity around urgent baritone broods, shifting into warm emotional screams of passion.

• South Texas sad post-punk /dark-wave music project Frail Chain “Alacrán” single
  

Cold, restless, and creepingly sinister, ”Alacrán” casts distant moody uncanny synth resonances over an obsessive flow of hypnotic drum beats, ominously bragging humming bass lines, and bleak chiming melodies to encircle ghostly indiscernible vocals in an alienating swirl of impending doom.

• Spanish Dark Wave /Synth Pop duo from Barcelona, HUIR “Lovers” from upcoming debut LP “Triumphal Arch Lovers” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]

Third and final preview from the soon-to-be-dropped first EP by the Barcelona duo with a glittering emotive storm of melancholic SynthPop driven by crispy and lashing marching drum programming, digging murky low ends and edgy icy bright synth melodies to encapsulate agitated sensual cries and breathless broods, in an intoxicating push and pull of love and resentment.

• Montreal, Québec ambient /dream pop /ethereal /dark folk artist Anna Arrobas “HSD” off of the EP “Undine”
  
• Berlin-based dream wave /shoegaze /darkwave /ethereal wave singer-songwriter Valentina Veil, aka VV & The Void – “Silk & Needles” from upcoming LP “THE CAGE” [Icy Cold Records]
• Hamilton, UK Darkwave project by Scottish artist, Lea Torn, aka The Secret Experiment “Time Breaks Us All” from the album “Phantoms”
  
• Colorado Springs, CO darkwave /gothic Rock duo Vox Lustra and The Gemini, aka Sister Medusa “Ethyreal Song” off “Ethyreal” EP
  
• Mexico City post-punk /gothic rock project led by Fernando Acosta, aka Sombrío “Penumbra” single
  
• Oregon-based industrial /electronic /darkwave project from G Duvel (of Diepraxa, Untamed Creatures) and R Dzo (of Moon Cries Blood), Hypersonic Missiles “Hope Is Lost” single
  
• Paris-based post-punk /coldwave duo Total Resistance – “Dancing Time” single
  
• Singer of the legendary ’80s Hamburg‘s Post-punk band Xmal Deutschland, Anja Huwe “Living In The Forest” from the LP “Codes” produced by Mona Mur and featuring fellow guitarist Manuela Rickers [Sacred Bones Records]
• Legendary UK industrial /darkwave /electronic pioneers led by Martin Bowes, ATTRITION “The Alibi” from the album “The Black Maria”
  
• Philadelphia-based goth /electronic /synth wave duo In Mind “Obsolescence” from the second EP “30kmZone”
  
• Hamburg/Berlin-based lo-fi /ambient /tape loops /electronic /wave /pop three-piece of Daniel Jahn, Jonas Meyer and Tobias Rutkowski, aka Schatterau “Unsichtbare Spuren” from the debut self-titled album “Schatterau” via Hands In The Dark (vinyl) and Cosima Pitz (tape)
  
• Canadian electronic /synth darkwave artist from Montreal, Xarah Dion “Delight Frozen Over Ether” from the upcoming V/A “MUTANT MODALITY vol. 2” compilation [Mutant Modality]
• Sacramento, CA minimal wave /synth band founded in 2012 by US-based artist Tony Williams, KLINE COMA XERO “Safety in Numbers” from the upcoming new vinyl 12″ LP “Running in the Dark” [OBJETROUVÉ label]
• Sofia, Bulgaria minimal wave/ electro/ coldwave act, Les Animaux Sauvages “Machine” from the LP “Stairway”
  
• Athens, Greek EBM /Dark Disco /Analog Technoid Electronics project, Metal Disco “Melting Metal” from the cassette/CD album “Hellion Reaper”
  
• Philadelphia, PA goth /post-punk /cold wave /minimal synth /darkwave /synthpop duo R E P < > L ^ K N T “THE DARKENED LIGHTS” from the album “Shudder To Think”
  
• Perth, Australia post-punk /darkwave /coldwave /electropop duo Andy Brown & Vince Valentini, aka Crimson Boy “All Cats Are Grey (Iridescent RMX)” (The Cure) [Lightarmour Editions]
• London-based glam goth/dark electronic /industrial pop duo, Dead Lights “Transform (Metamorphosis Mix)” [darkTunes]
• Mexico City electroclash /synth pop act KONTROLLER “Time Machine” single [Electrosound]
• Omaha, Nebraska Electro-Industrial /Dark Techno-Pop solo project Jeff In Leather “Crush” single
  
• Milwaukee, WI industrial /techno /EBM /dark electro solo project of Mark Trueman, aka Choke Chain “Cruel (MODEBIONICS Remix)”
  
• Colombia minimal wave /EBM /synth project of Ali Said, aka HUMAN 80 “Voltage 01” single [Nevel Records]
• Berlin-based industrial /dark wave /dark synth electronics duo of Carmen Burguess & Tomás Nochteff aka Mueran Humanos “Dentaduras” from upcoming vinyl 12″ LP “Reemplazante”
  
• Paris-based Darkwave /Minimal Wave /Synthpop /Dark Electronic duo Adriano Iacoangeli and Cecilia Dassonneville, aka ECHOBERYL “Through the Chaos” title track of the upcoming vinyl/CD LP “Through the Chaos” [Mother Solitude Records / Icy Cold Records]
• Antwerp, Belgium dark electro /synthpop /darkwave duo Hoc Eritis – “Into the light” single
  
• Chicago-based DIY goth /shoegaze /dream pop /post-punk /synthpop singer-songwriter Alessia Kato, aka Ghost Days “Moons in Heaven” single
  
• Copenhagen-based, two piece Danish synthpop band Disrupted Being “Deeper” single [Town And Towers Records]
• Los Angeles-based dark synthpop trio BlakLight “Blind Vision” first single from BlakLight’s forthcoming album, “The Haunting Of Us”
  
• Philadelphia-based EBM /post-punk /synthpop project led by Kyle Kimball, NIGHT SINS “The Lowest Places You’ll Go” from “A Silver Blade In The Shadow” EP [Born Losers Records]
• Hungarian dark electro /synthpop duo Post Analog Disorder “Silent Shout” single
  
• Austin, TX 3-piece industrial /goth /synthpop band Urban Heat “Right Time of Night” single [Artoffact]
• Berlin-based goth /post-punk /darkwave /synth project of Swedish musician Kalle Fagerberg (Liste Noire, The Blank VRS, Bootblacks), LIVING TEMPLES “Lamb Among Wolves” from the upcoming “Glass” LP 12″ [Manic Depression Records]
• Portland, OR based /darkwave /cold electronics act Dancing Plague “Shadow Self” off of the upcoming 5th studio album “Elogium” [AVANT! Records]
• Greek coldwave /minimal wave /darkwave duo of Joanna Pavlidou and Dimitris Pavlidis from Athens, SELOFAN “Sticky Fingers” from upcoming LP “Animal Mentality” [Fabrika Records]
• Brooklyn, NY-based industrial /techno /electronic producer Bryan Black, aka Black Asteroid “Dirge Out feat. Ian Astbury” from upcoming LP “Infinite Darkness” [Artoffact Records]
• Nashville, TN post-punk /post-industrial /dark wave /synthpop duo Before After Again “Solitude” single
  
• Denmark post-punk /darkwave /synthpop project The Flower Cartel “My Cyanide” from the first album “Dark Portraits”
  
• Greek darkwave /synthpop solo project (aka SmokeMachines), A Murder of Crows “Depressed Mode” single
  
• UK eclectic post-punk /darkwave solo project from Kendal, Claustraphobia “No More Joy” from the album “Sick of Love”
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project Moonvampire “Elisabeth” single
  
• Ostrowiec świętokrzyski, Poland Cold Wave /Goth Rock /Dark Wave band Stygmatia “Proch” single
  
• Saint Petersburg goth /post-punk /darkwave solo act Blind Dreams – “Cold Like Snow” single
  
• Mexico City based post-punk /gothic rock /darkwave band led by Carlos and Ernesto Carapi, aka Schrödinger “Morningstar” single [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Toronto Post-punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Rend My Flesh” single
  
• L.A post-punk /darkwave Latino goth solo act DEATH BY NATURE “MYSELF2MYSELF” single
  
• Marseille, French noise /new wave /electro /shoegaze /post-punk project solo project, TEENAGE SIN TASTE “Adrenalin” (new version, originally from the 2011 “Love Kills Slowly” EP)
  
• Italian post-rock /dream pop /noise pop /shoegaze /post-punk band Grigio Scarlatto “Segni” from the upcoming LP “Detox” [Shyrec]
• Australian Post-Punk / Surf-Goth solo project from Melbourne, Desmond Doom “Lover’s Song” from the EP “Doom And Bloom”
  
• New York indie rock /new wave /post-punk band led by Kabir Kumar-Hardy, Family Vision “Fashion” single
  
• Nuremberg, South Germany Post-Punk /Darkwave solo project THAL “Verschwende alles was du hast”
  
• Ludwigsburg, Germany Goth /New Wave /Post-punk one-man band, Another Abyss “Death Unites Us” single
  
• Calgary, Alberta post-punk /shoegaze trio HEAVYDIVE “Neon Ivy” single
  
• Italian Dark Ambient /New Wave /Shoegaze /Post-punk project music project, FL00D3R “A Void” from “Winter Session 23” LP (live studio session recorded between December 2023 and January 2024)
  
• Franco–Portuguese ethnic /exotic /psych /industrial /electro /noise duo Metawave “Fragmento” from the second LP “Fragmento” [Wave Records]
• UK gothic /post-punk duo Queen Eleanor’s Cross “Room For One” from “Succession” (EP)
  
• Bilbao, Basque Country post-punk /punk band GURS “Eder Ta Hutsa” from “Gerran Bizi Gara” LP [Symphony of destruction]
• Detroit’s garage rock/ punk band FEN FEN “Bub” off upcoming debut LP “National Threat” via Sweet Time Records
  
• Madison, Wisconsin post-punk /grungegaze trio of Bobby Hussy (The Hussy, Cave Curse, Wristwatch), Tyler Spatz (Cave Curse, Wristwatch) and Hart Miller (Wartorn), Whippets “Toes” from the upcoming self-titled album [No Coast]
• Mexico City gothic rock /deathrock /synth /post-punk band Funerales Cristo Rey “Sobre tu Ataúd” from the cassette self-titled debut album
  
• Milan, Italy post-punk /psych /noise /punk 4-piece THE GLUTS “Cade Giù” from the fifth studio album “Bang!” [Fuzz Club Records]
• Mason City, Iowa-based lo-fi kraut /post-punk /synth-punk quartet Why Bother? “Some Don’t Dance (Post Modern Mix)” off the upcoming new album, “Serenading Unwanted Ballads” [Feel It Records]
• Leeds, UK 4-piece indie /pop post-punk band Crumbs “You’re Just Jealous” title track of the upcoming LP “You’re Just Jealous” [Skep Wax]
• UK eclectic post-punk /darkwave solo project from Kendal, Claustraphobia “The Dying Light” single
  
• UK ambient /forest /dungeon synth project, Greenhollow “Acceptance” from “Pathway” album
  
• San Diego, CA dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Vandalorum “Moralltach” from the cassette album “Maewyn” [Fogged Entity]
• Rochester, UK comfy synth /emotional /fantasy /dungeon synth act Hermit Knight “Crept beneath obsidian sky” from the cassette album “Wandeweorpe” [Dale Of Shadows]
• London-based dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Tombs of Dagmar “Vithrika, Who Wanders and Wavers” from the cassette EP “Volume 1:URLF” [Vicious Mockery]