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

• Bogota, Colombia darkwave /electronic solo project by Mel Zb, Noromakina “pNEUMA” single [Cold Transmission Music]

Colombian one-man band unleashs a seductive and electrifying slice of dark electro-wave through a simultaneously tight, throbbing interlock of infectious chunky syncopated bass stabs together with rattling and thumpy rhythmic patterns, while vibrant, melancholic synth spirals broaden the emotive yield of bittersweet gloom laced with nostalgic hope, unfolding around lost and lonely distorted male vocals, stuttering rapidly, about the loss of a loved one.

• Brussels-based analogue electronic /industrial /synth-pop classically trained female musician, Aveline “Attache-moi” from the upcoming debut LP “Amours Noires” [Red Maze Records]

Brussels-based female musician weaves glistening analog retro-futuristic synth work, with propulsive drum programming and wabbling low ends to delve into the more melancholic realms of Synth-Pop and the colder end of Minimal Wave. Both juddering and seducing, “Attache-moi” casts a dark and eerie dramatic synth blanket to wash over seductive female voice clips that repeat and echo “tie me up” on a backdrop of industrial metallic clanks, laced with pounding beats and bouncy bass chugs, to evoke an uncanny sense of deep emotionality and robotic glitchiness.

• Hanover, Germany post-punk /darkwave /synth-pop /analog synth trio of Sarah & Daniel Egger (The Colder Sea, Glass Eden) and modular synth artist Nicolas Marquardt (Trichter Löss), aka Cold Call “Spit for my lips” from “For me, it’s always like this” EP
  

New collaborative German trio crafts a sultry and enveloping atmospheric analog synth-driven dark sound steeped in gloomy Post-punk, brooding Darkwave and melancholic Synthpop. A vibrant, cold, sparkling and emotionally charged, hypnotic beat-driven tapestry woven by moody, glowing synth flows overlaid with echo-y spiky guitar lines, icily piercing with a relentless, sharp pain-filled grip over a magnetic, haunted dual male /female vocal interplay, restlessly agonizing and wistfully regretting the loss of love.

• New York dark jazz outfit Marlowe Dies – “Stray Bullets” from V/A “The Detective’s Tears (Noir Jazz Compilation)” LP [Signora Ward Records]
• Manchester, UK goth /electronic /witchcraft folk trio Leucotome “Tricoteuse” single
  
• The Hague, Netherlands, one-woman lo-fi noise /experimental analog dark synth project Dim Garden “On se trouve à l’envers” from V/A “former friend” cassette compilation [Hunger!]
• Metz, France synth electronic noir chansonnier (A.H.Kraken, Scorpion Violente, Plastobeton, 20.000 punks, The Anals, 1400 points de suture, The Dreams, Le Chomage…), Noir Boy George “Injecte-moi” from the upcoming EP “Polytoxicomane de toi” [Pan European Recording]
• Rennes, France techno /synth-punk /synth-pop act Pronostic Vital “Nouvelle Ère” from “Nouvelle Ère” EP
  
• Long Beach, California-based minimal synth /post-punk band Nights Templar “Monday Girl” from the 2-track single “Ghostlike/Monday Girl”
  
• Rome, Italy wave /synth-pop /darkwave duo Les Longs Adieux “Le Soldat de Plomb” from the upcoming album “Arousal”
  
• Belgian synthpop band formed in the early 80s, led by Peter Bonne (Twilight Ritual, Autumn, Chayell, and A Split-Second), Linear Movement “Five Faces” single [Micrart Group]
• UK electro-pop group founded in the 1980s by electronic musician Dave Hewson with singers Sharon Abbott & Julie Ruler, Poeme Electronique “STUCK ON YOU BOY” single
  
• Germany minimal analog synth wave duo MNGLXMPLR “Neue Zukunft” title track of the upcoming LP of the same name [Carisma Studios]
• Barcelona techno-pop /minimal wave /synth-pop project of Le Cliché/Gerard Ryan, The Author “Le Musée from “Listening to the Producers” EP [Manufactured Desire]
• Toronto industrial /soundtrack /dub /synth wave /electro-horror duo Jakob Thiesen and David Lush, aka Revok “Stygmartyr” from “DEATHVVISH” EP
  
• Fort Wayne dark ambient /cinematic /fantasy /synth-wave /dungeon synth project Gloamwalker “Towers in Time” from “AMARANTHINE” LP
  
• Amsterdam-based industrial /world /disco punk /percussive /experimental /leftfield /electronic solo project of drummer and multidisciplinary artist Nina de Jong (of duo Spill Gold), Radical Hope “Yasi” [Antibody label]
• Uppsala, Sweden synth post-punk band Killing Kind “Humanity (Magic Wands Remix)” fourth single from last year’s debut album “Being Human” [Aenaos Records / Viskningar och Vrål]
• Chicago/Los Angeles/London art rock /electronic pop /post-punk duo of Maxine Silburn and Elvis Phelps, aka Wired Connection “Retriever” from the debut “Voices Of Heaven” LP
  
• Philadelphia, PA new wave /post-punk band POSITRONIX “Ascension Day” from the upcoming second LP “Miss Universe”
  
• British psychedelic /dark wave /shoegaze /synth-pop /post-punk duo, The KVB “Body Clock (Demo)” from “Of Desire – Demos & Outtakes (10th Anniversary Edition)” LP
  
• Athens, Greece-based new wave dark wave /post-punk /electronic music duo HOLLOW SHIFT “Electric Gloom” single
  
• Los Angeles goth ethereal /synthpop /dream pop /post-punk duo Magic Wands “Moon Shadow (Delerium Remix)” [Metropolis Records]
• Hamilton, UK-based goth /darkwave project of Lea Torn, AKA The Secret Experiment “The Pulse of the Night” single
  
• Canadian post-punk /cold wave duo TRAITRS “Seven Fictions” from “POSSESSOR” [Icy Cold Records]
• Amsterdam based, Dutch legendary new wave /post punk band led by Mick Ness & founder Dirk Polak, formed in 1979, MECANO UNLIMITED “Utopia” from “Modus Vivendi” seventh and final Mecano studio album (46 years after their legendary debut EP “Untitled”)
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Post-punk /Darkwave solo project Blue Remains – “Dance Of Incoherence” from the LP “Shadows Of The Gloom”
  
• Russian goth /darkwave /post-punk duo Purple Fog Side “Penumbra” (Gonnalon cover, 2022) single  [skyQode]
• Hanover, Germany industrial /noise-rock /post-punk band FRTG13 “Vollspektrum Alabama Kid” from the s/t album
  
• Barcelona post-punk /darkwave trio Darkways “Fading Time (Antipole Remix)” 
• French–German goth /post-punk /dark wave trio Cold Cause “Road” 2nd single from the debut s/t album “Cold Cause” [Manic Depression Records]
• France goth rock /dark wave /post-punk  trio TranxHaine “Ni Catharsis Ni Pardon” single
  
• California-based Darkwave /Industrial project by Marina Andräde, SKOTO “Valve” single
  
• Castellana Grotte, Italy EBM /dream pop /dark wave /electro /synth-pop project of the musician Daniele Raguso, aka A Copy For Collapse “Dark Planet (feat. Lady Maru, Caramel Chameleon)” from the LP “The Line”
  
• Mannheim, Germany-based Synth-driven Gothic Retro-Romantic duo, OH MADONNA “Desire” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• French collaboration between Lille‘s Dark Electro duo DMP and the Paris-based frontman of Post-Punk-Coldwave band Je T’Aime, Dark Minimal Project “And Sometimes (feat. dBoy JE T’AIME)” from “And Sometimes” EP
  
• German EBM /Synthpop act Orange Sector feat. Lis Van Den Akker “Treat Of Life (Rob Dust Remix Extended Mix)” (Single) [Infacted Recordings]
• Swedish futurepop /electropop duo John Lindqwister and Rickhard Blomqvist, aka Machinista “Dark Heart Of Me” from the 2015 “Garmonbozia” LP [Sub Culture Records] Bern, Switzerland dark electro /new wave /synth-pop duo CØLDSTAR “Post-Punk Robot” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany new wave /synth-pop duo Sea of Sin “Let It Rain” from the album “The Shape of a Lonely Soul”
  
• French nu-disco /electro /chug /dark disco producer BLACK BOILER “JESTEM TU (feat DORRR)” from “Jestem Tu” EP
  
• Germany synthpop duo Conscience “Somewhere (Radio Edit)” third single from their upcoming album “Suspended In Time” [Echozone]
• Santiago, Chile goth /coldwave /darkwave act La Tragedia “Invisibles” from “Retrato” LP
  
• Louisville, Kentucky-based EBM /dark wave/post-punk duo of Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, aka Who Saw Her Die? “Circling Around Us” from “Circling” EP
  
• Toronto Post-punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Forever Awake” single
  
• Athens, Greece-based DIY darkwave /post-punk band led by musician Nick Chrysochoos, THE DEPTHS “Under The Lights”, second single from their upcoming debut EP
  
• Chicago Post-Punk trio  Body Shop “Fallacies” from “Sex Body” EP [FUTURE SHOCK]
• California darkwave /new wave /post-punk solo project LovelyEddie “Grey Dance” from “Overrated” LP
  
• Oslo, Norway post-punk /coldwave band Whirling In Rags “Human Animal” debut single
  
• Manchester, UK gothic rock duo Moth Slut “Times Like This” from the mini-LP “A Coffin Built For Two”
  
• Brazilian póst-punk /darkwave band Tempos de Morte “Marasmius” from “Marasmius” EP
  
• Poland/UK goth rock /gothabilly /deathrock /horror-punk outfit Miguel and the Living Dead “Speaking In Smoke” from “Hyenaz!” EP [Piranha Music]
• Valencia, Spain garage /post-punk/punk duo Perfil Bajo “Punto de mira” from the s/t album (compilation of the band’s first two EPs on vinyl)
  
• Portsmouth, UK psych /post punk outfit Noise Factory United “That’s when the cuckoo kicks” from “Visions from the frontier” EP
  
• Buffalo, NY, freaked out psych /new wave /post-punk /prog punk project of John Toohill (Science Man) and Bran Schlia (Clump), aka ISMATIC GURU “Two Big Steps For Mankind” from “Crocbrain, or, Two Big Steps For Mankind” EP [Swimming Faith Record]
• Perm, Russia garage /punk /post-punk band, Всё Просто [Vse Prosto] Пьяная Драка / Pyanaya Draka” from the LP “Шесть из Девяти / Six out of Nine”
  
• Budapest- Szombathely-Vienna 5-piece based post-hardcore /post-punk /dark punk band Láz “Bezárva from the LP “Lassan Átjáró Zavar” [Discos Peroquébien]
• Bilbao, Basque Country DIY anarcho punk /post-punk band Orsini “Luces azules” from “Ezin Atera” LP [Andalucía Über Alles]
• Leipzig one-man cinematic doom dark jazz project of Tobias Weiß, aka Ancient Talking “An Inner Apparition” from “An Inner Apparition” EP [Signora Ward Records]
• Sweden dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon music project Swordcerer “Closing the Circle” from “The Dragon’s Eye and Other Fantasy Stories” LP
  
• Seattle, WA fantasy /confy /dungeon synth project Aconite “Where the Nøkk Sings Softly” from “Scaleheart” LP
  
• Eugene, OR fantasy /dungeon synth project Fernmage – “Hoping to spot some local…” from the split album “Hedgemaze” by Fernmage & Average Adventures [Discarded Lantern]
• Greece old school dungeon synth project Korg Modett “Bee Smoker” from the EP “A Manual of Bee-Keeping”