Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips – MARCH #11-22
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Toronto Post-punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Crucify” from the new double A-side single “Crucify // Casket”
As the good Mike just said ‘so young, so good’, the second single from the Canadian unit confirms all the positive impressions from their debut EP, slightly more introspective and poignant with glistening guitar-driven memories flowing in melancholic ripples along with evocative synth swells, to insinuate penetrating pain into airless tormented vocals and detached echoes of guilt confessing loss, dread, and shame into sad, blowing winds of numb, shivering fear.
- North of Spain‘s shoegaze /darkwave /post-punk /coldwave solo project URCO “Morir en verano” new single
Spanish musician after the brief guitar-layered shoegaze divagation, return to the somber deep of bass along drapes of airy synth for the atmospheric emotional-filled new single “Die in the summer”, that unfolds a swaying, pulsing rhythmic section, slowly swept by fluttering and shivering gauzy synth swirls to bloom ecstatic outpours, pierced by wandering, jagged and angsty guitar melodies, fusing unsettled bipolar moods around soft, sullen vocals’ beautifully sad release of loss, love, and innocence.
- German goth wave project of Niko Biberger based in Bavaria, a.k.a DIAF “Aung” single
Bavarian black and red heart DIAF is back to throb and bleed his distinctive melodramatic goth-wave through vigorous thumping rhythms driving sad meandering bright synth melodies, that flutter and flow powerless under eerie celestial hums, whilst an evocative layering of signature baritone moans, huffs, and howls interject dramatic moods from a poetic lyrical tragedy of forlorn fate.
- Belarus based witch-house /dark electronic /death electro project of Nikita Vasiliev, aka SKAEN “Ad Cryptum” from the new album “Dark Muse”
- San Francisco based coldwave /darkwave /mutant body music project of John Anton Malinowski, EX-HEIR – “WISŁAWA” from the album “WISŁAWA RITUAL”
- East London based post-punk /electronic industrial electronics /minimal synth project of Kevin Hendrick, aka MIDDEX “Palm is Alive in a Hand that Can Crush” from the upcoming “Perpetual Skip” album on Outer Reaches Records
- Spanish post-punk /experimental electronics /minimal synth duo of Pawboss & Tom Esmiz, AKA Pólipo “Fotosíntesis de la carne, metamorfosis de la luz” single on contubernio records
- French post-punk /synth-punk /new wave solo project Monsieur Crane “Dors” from the new album “Apocalypso” via Tonn Recordings
- Italian/Swiss industrial /EBM /dark techno /acid electronic /darkwave trio of Florin Büchel (aka CCO) and Daniele Cosmo (co-owner of Lux Rec.) and vocalist Kleio Thomaïdes, AKA Savage Grounds “All the Tears You Shed” from the upcoming cassette album “Hidden By The Night” on She Lost Kontrol
- Stockholm/Bordeaux dark techno /EBM /electro collaboration, REIN x Djedjotronic – “Transmutation” from “Transmutation” EP [Boysnoize Records]
- Brussels based dark synth electronic duo FIGURE SECTION “Teardrops” from upcoming debut LP “Mirages” on Antibody label
- Switchblade Symphony – “Wallflower (WLDV Edit)”
- Swiss shoegaze /post-punk /wave artist and producer from Zürich, Blanche Biau “Marode Gestalten (Carlo Onda Remix)”
- Amsterdam based synth-punk / darkwave / minimal synth artist Adam Tristar ‘Submission” from the album ‘Suicide Neighborhood’
- Spokane, Wa synth dark experimental /electronic /witch-house producer Dan Ocean, aka BLVCK CEILING “(why are you) so cold” [unreleased circa 2004]
- Los Angeles‘ lo-fi /wave /post-punk / electro-punk solo project of visual artist, songwriter and musician, Colin Ambulance aka BITE MARX “Eunuch Tantrum” single
- Brazilian synthpop /darkwave /synthwave artist from Novo Hamburgo, Camilla Sombrio “Catherine” single from the upcoming EP
- Colombian lo-fi new wave /post-punk solo project Píldora Letal “Ataque Subliminal” from the new album “Hologramas”.
- Lucerne-based Swiss post-punk /synth wave /new-wave /synthpop duo Visions in Clouds “Thieves” 3rd single from the upcoming album due April 2022 on Little Jig Records / Icy Cold Records
- Swedish dark electronic duo from Örebro/Stockholm, White Birches “Lethe´s Bramble” new single on Progress Productions
- Berlin-based NewYorker electronic /Italo disco /new wave /post-punk /coldwave /dark techno producer Luca Venezia aka CURSES – “Ghost Of Arms feat. Terr” from the 2×12″ LP “Incarnadine” on Dischi Autunno
- Dallas, TX new wave /darkwave solo project of Alex Yanez, aka BREATH PLAY “My Soul Holds Back” single
- Los Angeles based electronic /synthpop /synthwave musician-songwriter-producer John Glenn Kunkel aka THE NEW DIVISION “Circles” single
- Los Angeles based coldwave /synthpop duo SACRÉ BLEU! “Skull Dance (Luxury Noise Remix)”
- Synthpop duo from Switzerland, BLACKBOOK “My Darkest Memory” new single on darkTunes.
- French gothic industrial synthpop band (also known as PORN), Pure Obsessions & Red Nights “A vanishing sight” single.
- London-based cyberpunk /dark electronic /industrial pop duo, Dead Lights “Follow Me” from the “Doom Doom Trash” EP on Cold Transmission Music
- Brighton, UK post-punk /gothic rock 4-piece THE LAST CRY “Isolate (Codename:Lola Mix)”
- Mexico City-based industrial /electronic /goth /darkwave solo project, RITUALZ “Dose (Single Edit)” maxi single from the upcoming LP “Animal Macabro”
- Toluca, Mexico coldwave /darkwave side project of Dann Rossier as Danno Bones (AKA Das Leiden), DeathMachines “Dark Future” debut single on Black Synth Records
- New Jersey‘s post-punk /gothic rock solo project of Joseph DeMichele, aka Shelley’s Lullaby “When the Sky Falls Down” from the album “Eternal” on Lost Cause Records
- Los Angeles EBM /New Wave /Post-Punk /Synthwave Outfit SEXTILE “Modern Weekend” from the new single “Modern Weekend / Contortion” on Felte Records
- San Diego, Ca Post-Punk /Cold Wave project of Lee Guerrero, PORTRAIT “All I Can Give” (re-released song from his previous act Tragedy)
- French post-punk /rock act formed in Rennes, led by singer-guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Quermalet (ex-Tétines Noires and musician on Yan Tiersen’s albums) with backing vocals by Emmanuel Hubaut (Tétines Noires, LTNO, Dead Sexy Inc), THE MARRIED MONK feat Emmanuel Hubaut “Who killed mister moonlight” (Bauhaus – ‘Burning From The Inside’ / 1983) from the upcoming “HONORIS” Tribute series on Unknown Pleasures Records
- Scotland‘s goth /darkwave /coldwave new project of Lea Torn (AKA The Secret Experiment), Lords Of The Northern Sky “The Storm Does Not Care” single
- Rouen, France cold wave solo project NICE COLD NATION “Half-time” from the new album “Safe”.
- Belgian solo experimental /new wave /post-punk /kraut /electronic project of Raphaël Haubourdin, founding member of the Brussels post-punk/electro band Organic, KINEX KINEX “Kamelia” from the new album “Artéfact”
- Italian electro-wave act TOURDEFORCE | “Fields of Rape” (Death In June cover, 1985) from the DIJ cover EP “Six in the Key of Death” on My Owl Music / SPQR label
- Norfolk, Virginia goth /darkwave /post-punk act The Blood Pact – “A Parade of Roses” from “Eternal” debut album
- Rockford, Illinois goth post-punk /darkwave band The Funeral March of the Marionettes “Slow (Trapped in this moment)” single
- St. Gallen, Switzerland synth /new wave /post-punk duo Q-7 Three Times “T-3 // Aus” from the 2-track 7″ single “Unite”
- Swedish darkwave collaboration between the two divergent electronic musicians Tobias Bernstrup and Erica Li Lundqvist (of Abu Nein), O+HER “Mercy Beast” from “Ghost of a Memory” humanitarian aid fundraising single
- Limburg, Germany romantic dark wave solo project FARBLOS “Wonderland” from “liebe/tod” EP
- Morlaix, France aquatic post-punk solo project of William Chevalier, AKA Au revoir Bruno “Tempaite en mer” from the album “Erreure boreale”
- Swiss Post-Punk solo project of Zürich based artist Josip Tijan, aka THYMIAN “Iron Lung” (Black Marble) from the EP “Landmarks – A Cover Collection”
- Houston, TX based Post-Punk 3-piece Tides “Odd Joys” from the new EP, “Swim Like God” via Maxiecore Records
- Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “Думать о себе /Think about yourself” from the new single “Самое важное /The most important”
- Brooklyn, NY new wave /post-punk band Lathe of Heaven “Moon-Driven Sea” from 3-track “Demo”
- Portland-based post-punk band SOFT KILL “Press Play” off of upcoming 7″ single via Denver’s Convulse Records
- Oaxaca, Mexico new wave /post-punk duo Simulación “No te estoy buscando” from the s/t EP
- Oakland, Ca based indie rock /post-punk Mexican 4-piece Fake Fruit “No Mutuas” single
- Argentinian/British Synthpop /Post-punk duo of Pablo Casadey & Sam Young, Night Hexe “Take My Heart” debut single
- Chemnitz, Germany dark punk /post-punk 4-piece L‘APPEL DU VIDE “Das Programm” from the upcoming 4-track 7″ vinyl EP “Abwärtsspirale” on It‘s Eleven Records
- Polish Post-Punk /Cold Wave band from Poznan, Renmin Ribao “Bahaus” from the new album “Rok Szczura”
- Melbourne garage punk /post-punk 4-piece PINCH POINTS “Haruspex” from the upcoming sophomore LP “Process” on Mistletone Records and Exploding In Sound Records
- Barcelona, Spain punk /post-punk band, TORD “Coke Evoke” from Epònim” EP on Flexidiscos
- Melbourne new-wave art-punks Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice “Infinite Growth” from “Remember The Future Vol. 1 + 2” LP on Erste Theke Tontraeger
- Hucknall, UK gothabilly /dark rock’n’roll /post-punk band Death Party UK “Graveyard Rock” new single.
- Manchester, UK indie rock /proto punk band WEIMAR “The Girls Of LA” single on German Shepherd Records
- Liverpool, UK DIY Death Rock /Post-Punk /Punk band Coughin’ Vicars “Possession of Fire” (Single)
- Boston new darkwave /synthwave /electronic music collaboration between longtime conspirators Reuben Bettsak and Bo Barringer (Future Carnivores, Emerald Comets, Guillermo Sexo), EX-HYENA “Sight Unseen” 3rd single from the upcoming album “Moon Reflections” via Hush Club Ltd./Brutal Resonance
- Vienna, Austria coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “Silence” single on A-Dur Records.
- Krasnodar, Russia electropop act, umbrellahaters “Another Day (Stancia Videopark)”
- Dutch darkwave collaboration between singer Yvette Winkler and musician-producer Frank Weyzig (Born For Bliss, Tearing The BlackBox, ex-Clan of Xymox), VASELYNE “Here to Begin (feat. Lynette Cerezo AKA Bestial Mouth)” from “Winter” EP on COP International