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

• Glasgow, Scotland-based Synthpop /Dark Wave artist Propter Hoc “Saint Marsha” single
  

Scottish artist tweaks his synth-led wave sound to perfection in the new 80s-tinged, catchy heart-warming tribute to 1960s-70s transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson, from the buzzing and throbbing dance-inducing rhythmic section to dazzling swirls of emotional-ridden bright synth euphoria, resounding triumphant atop aching vocal longing, delivering flirtatious vibes into a timeless adoration of pride.

• Portland, OR industrial /EBM /cold wave /minimal synth electronics project ORTROTASCE “Y?” single
  

Portland‘s dark electronics project return with two singles of relentlessly vibrant and mechanical old-school dance floor command of absolute body release, combining roiling EBM stabs with groovy bouncing Electro-Funk rhythms and compulsive samples into oppressive invisible chains around angsty baritone broods, questioning the toxic system amid endless cycles of despair.

• Austin, TX Post-punk/Darkwave/Alternative band led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Darius Davila, aka HAUNT ME “Filthy” single
  

While clearly drawing from familiar sound elements, the Austin band has a distinctive knack for blending them every time in an imaginary effective way. The new single lurks in an obscure, luscious and seductive maze propelled by urgent bouncy hard-hitting rhythms and a swaying sinuous bassline interplaying with pulsing glistening guitar obsessions, encircled by eerie angsty synth swirls, rambling around restless, aching vocal passions, diving into a “filthy” fantasy of rousing nocturnal passions.

• San Francisco post-punk /darkwave 4-piece Octavian Winters – “Ondine” debut single
  
• Norway goth /post-punk band led by ex-Wallpaper Silhouettes Mats Davidsen, Painted Romans “Sing to the Child (Single Mix)” (single) from upcoming Spring album
  
• Liege, Belgian ambient /new wave /minimal electronics /experimental pop iconoclast artist (1954 – 2020), Patrick Stas “AKA Gheneral Thî et les Fourmis – Despération” off the archival career span compilation ‘If Paul K.’s Life Was a Movie, This Would Be the Soundtrack of His Death’ vinyl 12″ LP [STROOM.tv]
• New Zealand EBM /industrial /dungeon power techno 3 piece maximalists, Grecco Romank “Romance Writer” from the upcoming second LP “Wet Exit” on Moral Support
  
• Long Beach, CA lo-fi minimal synth /post-punk /darkwave /coldwave project, Nights Templar “Dot & Helen” from cassette EP “Orchid Blush”                                                                                                               
• Olympia, WA experimental punk outfit {members of Grass Widow, Preening, gSp}, Debt Rag “Jeff’s World” from the upcoming album “Lost To The Fantasy” via Post Present Medium
  
• Leer, Germany mid-1980s founded experimental /post-punk /electronic /industrial-pop /minimal-wave /electro-punk duo Inox Kapell and Dieter Mauson (2/3 of Sauerstofff), aka Nostalgie Éternelle “Arty People” from the upcoming CD-cassette album “Krummhörn” [Industrial Complexx]
• Belgian ambient /electronic /new wave /art-rock /experimental pop band Sergeant “Soon The Tears in My Eyes Will Be Blinding and Blessing at the Same Time” from the upcoming debut self-titled album [STROOM.tv]
• Quebec lo-fi /electronic /synthpop solo project of MD (ex singer/guitarist of duo Calomine), Nœud – “Les yeux de Françoise Kaye” single
  
• German industrial /darkwave solo project, Mert Akyürek – “Gray Buildings” single from the upcoming LP “Cold Shadows”
  
• Bern, Switzerland minimal /synth wave duo Sadie La Chèvre & Nora Düster, Extra Bleu Ciel “21st Century Perfection”
  
• Athens-based industrial electronics/ post-punk act led by Giannis Papaioannou, AKA Mechanimal “Κοιτάζω τις Σκιές στους Τοίχους (Ορχηστρικό)”
  
• French electro /coldwave /darkwave music project based in Paris, Systeme Paradoxe “Comme le Sable en Hiver” from the debut album “Histoires Ordinaires”
  
• Brest-based French post-punk /synth wave /EBM /dark electronics duo Maman Küsters “Contrôle Du Corps Absolu” from the third album “Le Petit Chaos De” on Unknown Pleasures Records
  
• Swiss minimal synth /electro body wave duo Kleio Thomaïdes and Shlomo Balexert, AKA Bound by Endogamy – “Autoreduction” off upcoming cassette EP “Six cauchemars d’une machine fêlée” [Dead Channel Records]
• Thessaloniki, Greece Post-punk /Minimal Synth /Coldwave /Poetry duo Kama Muta “ακόμα μαζί”
  
• Offenbach, Germany industrial /darkwave /synthpop /coldwave duo Recht Auf Rausch – “Stahlherz”
  
• Ariège, France electro /new beat /acid /post-punk duo BRIGADE APACHE “Firefly in my hole” from upcoming LP “Firefly” on Records Ruin the Landscape
  
• Bogotá, Colombia coldwave / minimal synth solo project Ferdinand Cärclash “Decibel”
  
• Bern, Switzerland industrial /post-punk /coldwave /synth wave band Plague Pits “Il Rifiuto” from the digital/cassette EP “The Light”
  
• Lyon, France emotional body music /darkwave /electro act led by Timothée Gainet, Poison Point – “Fallen Hearts (Modern Men Remix)” bonus remix  from the vinyl edition of the 2022 album “Poisoned Gloves” [Young & Cold Records]
• Turin-based Italian electronic /darkwave artist Paolo Virdis “Some thing is fading away” single
  
• Italian industrial /darkwave /new beat /dark electronics solo project of composer and producer (member of post-punk band The Coventry), AKA Kurs “Archivist (single mix)” off “Archive_Omen” maxi CD single, a preview from the second LP “Dreamer” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Portland, OR new wave /cold wave /minimal synth electronics project ORTROTASCE “Lockout” single
  
• German industrial /EBM /synthpop /electro producer Martin Steinebach (AKA Conscientia Peccati, Monoid, StillStand, Compest), EM1V “Fight Your Fear” from the album “Escape Pattern” [SOIL]
• Chañaral, Chile Electronic Body Music project of Jeremias Venegas, AKA New Fabrik – “Sin Sentimiento”
  
• Moscow, Russia darkwave /coldwave /synthpop artist and DJ, VELVET VELOUR “L’eau De Fleur” single
  
• Chicago industrial /electro /cold wave /synthpop /dark wave project of Kill Memory Crash‘s Adam Killing, CIRCA TAPES “Driver”
  
• Chicago, IL post-punk /goth pop /synthpop duo Wingtips “Innocent Blood (Twin Tribes Remix)” on Artoffact Records
  
• Santiago, Chile goth /EBM /techno /darkwave act Vodoo Rage “Fated” single
  
• Azusa, CA goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Vomer “Death Angel” from “Cara de Angel” EP
  
• Belgian Synth-Pop /Post-punk /New Wave multi-instrumentalist Ignace De Lamper, AKA Mystic Echo “Distant Shores”
  
• Swedish dreamy dark wave duo from Sundsvall, RED MECCA “Without A House Without A Door” single off upcoming album “Stay” on Massproduktion
  
• London, UK minimal analog synth primitive-electronic DIY music project THIS IS THE BRIDGE “Repulsion” from the new album “Too Little Much Too Late”
  
• Tempe, AZ synth-pop duo of brothers Alex and Andrew Jarson, Body of Light “Never Ever” from the forthcoming LP “Bitter Reflection” on Dais Records
  
• San Diego, CA based Mexican electronic /coldwave /darkwave /post-punk /dethwave solo project of D. Diaz, Vestron Vulture “American Nightmare” single
  
• Swiss analog dark synth wave /synthpop duo CØLDSTAR “Won’t Follow You” from the upcoming “Coming Home” (EP)
  
• Austin, TX gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave band Sinclair Noire – “Close to Pride” single
  
• Tampa, FL dark synthwave solo project The Night Office “Street Lights” single
  
• German post-punk /synthpop /postwave solo project, A Transition “Left Behind” single.
  
• German dark electro-pop duo 12 Illusions “A Kind Of Violence” single on Infacted Recordings
  
• Russian synthpop /post-punk /new wave act from Ekaterinburg, Roobanok “Where” from the debut LP “Cosmos Knows How to Forgive” on SkyQode
  
• Tokyo, Japan goth /metal /punk /post-punk /darkwave band led by Lilii Mar a.k.a masa, AKA Sex Virgin Killer “The lights will fall (Shinobu Narita Remix)” off “The lights will fall” EP
  
• UK post-punk /darkwave independent artist from Kendal, Claustraphobia “Dead Man Walking” single
  
• Richmond, VA Goth /Dark Electronics /Darkwave act, Petrified Entity “A Perfect Storm” single
  
• Lyon, France noise /dark post-punk band DE MARBRE “New Moment”
  from the upcoming debut LP “Feu de veines”
  
• Hamilton, UK-based darkwave project of Lea Torn, AKA The Secret Experiment “Severed” title track of the new “Severed” EP
  
• Mexican synthpop /dark wave /post-punk duo from Tijuana, DANCING STRANGERS “Another Night” single
  
• Spanish coldwave /post-punk band YVGOSLAVIA “Espiral” first dubplate on demand soon on ORACULO RECORDS
  
• Detroit‘s industrial /goth /post-punk three-piece Ritual Howls “Dark Ceiling In Tennessee” from upcoming fifth LP “Virtue Falters” on Felte Records
  
• UK/US goth /post-punk /darkwave collaboration Kill Shelter & Death Loves Veronica “Resist” from “The Sex Tape Sessions” EP on Cold Transmission Music
  
• New York post-punk /darkwave duo, A Cloud of Ravens ‘Parable’ 4th single and final single from A Cloud of Ravens’ incoming LP ‘LOST HYMNS’ on Nexilis/Schubert Music Europe
  
• Los Angeles Deathrock / Post-Punk / Dark Punk band, The Wraith “Overthrown” single off the upcoming “Ghost March” LP
  
• Bologna, Italy new wave /Italo disco /darkwave /post-punk collaborative project and concept led by Gianni Lee, co-founder of the french label Model Workers Records, I Woke Up Chinese “Lena Wimer” single
  
• Quetzaltenango, Guatemala new wave /post-punk band GUERRA FRIA “Gente normal” from the album “She Smells Like Flowers And Death”
  
• Italian Electronic /Coldwave /Post-Punk moniker of musician, Cristian HC Usai, aka LOVE OF CONSOLATION “Broken” from the EP “Not In Mood”
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “В чём моя вера?” 2-track single
  
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin goth /cold wave /post-punk duo GENAU “Flowers” from the new EP “Flowers”
  
• Rio De Janeiro, Brazil indie rock /dark wave /post-punk band Gato de Rua “Faces” single
  
• Santa Barbara, CA goth rock/post-punk band Rival Cults “Heraldry” single on Dune Altar
  
• St. Petersburg, FL goth /post wave /post-punk solo project Johnstonsons “Heavy Heaven” single
  
• Brest, Bretagne anarcho post-punk band LITOVSK “There Ain’t No Answer” from split 7″ vinyl EP with Hinin, via Hidden Bay Records in co-release with Bad Health Records, Dans le Vide, DMDF, Going Postal, Medication Time Records & Senseless Acts of Anger
  
• Tucson, AZ goth /post-punk solo project The Auspex “Broken Glass” from the album “Paradise”
  
• London, Ontario punk/synth-punk trio MONONEGATIVES “Cro-Magnon” single
  
• Amsterdam-based noise rock /post-punk /punk band HOOFS “No Accident” off 0f the upcoming debut 12″ vinyl EP “I”
  
• Mason City, Iowa garage /synth /punk /post-punk 4-piece Why Bother? “Self Indulgent Ways” from the upcoming album “A City of Unsolved Miseries” on Feel It Records
  
• Gent, Belgium noise /post-punk band The Rats “Machinery” single                                                                   
• New York-based post-punk band (former members of The Wilful Boys, Spray Paint, Brandy, Lovelace, Pop 1280), During “Quiz” from upcoming debut self-titled album on Chunklet Industries
  
• Melbourne, Australia kraut /new wave /post-punk /punk band DR SURE’S UNUSUAL PRACTICE “Outside Looking In” from upcoming mixtape album “BUBBLE” on Marthouse Records
  
• Melbourne based post-punk group (featuring members of The Shifters, The Living Eyes and Parsnip), The Toads “Nationalsville” off upcoming debut album “In the Wilderness” on Anti Fade and Upset The Rhythm
  
• Hungary darkwave /post-punk project kékmandarin “Kék mandarin” debut single 
  
• Russian indie /post-punk trio from Moscow, Культодиночества [kultodinochestva] “меланхолия” single
  
• Mission, TX post-punk /synth-punk solo project (ex-I Killed Techno!), Chrome Dracula “Never Coming Back” from “Demo ‘23” EP
  
• Post-punk revival trio based in Barcelona, Low Blows “I Hate” single
  
• Hong Kong based goth rock /cold wave /dream pop /post-punk band The Crush “Lurch” single               
• Los Angeles-based indie dance /synth-pop /electronic husband-and-wife duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, AKA Peaking Lights “Suitcase” single [Permanent Vacation]
• Los Angeles shoegaze /darkwave project Matte Black Wolves “Noir Valley” from the EP “Midnight Frequency”
  
• Orange County, CA gothic rock singer-songwriter Rob Rohm “Nothing Matters” from “Forever Changed” single
  
• French electronic /post-punk /indie rock /coldwave /poetry act Messyl & Wolf City “Today to try” from the cassette EP “Trip” on Lotophagus records / Coeur sur toi