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

• Rouen, France dark post-punk /coldwave solo project NICE COLD NATION “Distress” from the new “Nation” album
  

Since 2015 the elusive French musician, under his Nice Cold Nation moniker, descends from time to time from his hermitage to delight us with full-length albums, nine including a couple of instrumentals and outtakes, made of minimal and atmospheric soundscapes suffused with the moody romanticism and the cold aesthetics of 80’s Factory Records’ post-punk, laced with nostalgic-inducing introspective melancholia, while whispering forlorn tales about love and loss of our fragile existence.

• Russian new wave/coldwave/post-punk band from Rostov-on-Don, Motorama “New Age” new single on I’m Home Records
  

Delicious sprightly synth-laden new single, cold and melancholic, but at the same time warm and comforting, enriched with evocative glistening guitar flourishes and emotional vocalizations, shrouded in coldwave incantations.

• French dark dream-pop/synth-pop/new wave project of Mickael Olivette from Rennes, Tropique Noir “Neige Et Feu” from the upcoming single “Neige Et Feu / Évidemment” on Music From The Masses
  

Hypnotic rhythms, pleasingly neurotic, gleaming guitar lines, muted buzzing hum and soft brooding vocals intermingle emotionally, amidst intensely melancholic and euphoric soaring hazy atmospherics, replete with sheer elegance and distinctive French charm. Captivating and intriguing, bright and dark at the same time, new single as usual from Tropique Noir.

• La Plata, Argentina tango/post-punk/’cabaret arrabalero’ banda Malayunta Orquestita “La mañana después del rio” from the album “La fragilidad de los inviernos”                                                                                                 
• Rhode Island-based experimental industrial artist, composer, and performer Kristin Hayter aka LINGUA IGNOTA “O Ruthless Great Divine Director” new single on Sargent House. 
  
• Austrian minimalistic post-punk artist from Wien, BRUCH “Gelotologie” from the upcoming V/A “Compilation C” on Cut Surface
  
• US EBM/industrial/dark electronic side project of Dylan Travis (Some Ember) & Reuben Sawyer (The Column, Anytime Cowboy), WINDOW “Desert” from “Endless Cycle” EP on Third Coming Records
  
• Zagreb-based, Croatian industrial/darkwave/synth-punk/minimal synth solo project of Goran Lautar, aka Neon Lies “Insecurity” from the upcoming third album “Loveless Adventures” on Cut Surface/Wave Tension Records/Cosmic Brood and Black Verb Records
  
• Los Angeles‘ dark electroni/industrial/EBM/synth duo Dock Hellis “Feed” from the debut EP “Crisis Talk” (all profits donated to @launitedway’s Pandemic Relief Fund) on Burning Rose Records
  
• Cookeville, TN synth-wave/synthpop duo Electricks “Tunnel Vision” from new EP “Heat Lightening”
  
• Brooklyn, NY Post-Punk/New Wave/Synthpop 3-piece NATION OF LANGUAGE “September Again” off of forthcoming album “Introduction, Presence” out April 2020
  
• Athens, Greece EBM/punk/dark electronic duo of musician Vasilis Angelopoulos (Conjecture) and vocalist/lyricist Hawk Stigmata, aka LIEBCHEN “ΠΕΤΡΑ” from V/A “You’ve Got Friends (in ATH)” on Just Gazing label
  
• Greek dark electronics /analogue synth project of Toxic Razor (Beatbox Machinery, Eerie Sopor, Paradox Obscur), METAL DISCO feat Marta Raya – “Nowy Wymiar” from V/A “Generation Young and Cold Vol.3” on YoungAndColdRecords
  
• Berlin-based/Australia-born dark techno/coldwave/darkwave project of DJ, vocalist, producer, and performer (Linea Aspera and Keluar), Alison Lewis, a.k.a. ZANIAS “Carbon” from the new “Extinction” EP on Fleisch
• Vienna‘s synth wave/minimal synth solo project of synthesist/singer (1/2 of Mitra Mitra and Violetiger), Violet Candide, aka Peppy Pep Pepper – ”Silver Rays” from the second cassette album “Granny Chic” on Modern Tape
  
• Québec City, Canada post-wave band Handful of Snowdrops “Broken Open” from the new “Asymmetrical” EP
  
• French synthwave/darkwave project of Sébastien Carl from Bordeaux, H ø R D “#13” from HØRD third full-length album ‘’Bodies’’ on AVANT! Records
  
• French/Swiss Cold Wave/Post-Punk/Minimal Wave band composed of Fabrice Lefebvre (Rajna), Théotime Lefebvre (Thermafrost) and Chroma Carbon (Sine Silex), FACTICE FACTORY “Boiled”
  
• Belgian solo electro/new wave/post-punk/kraut/electronic project of Raphaël Haubourdin, founding member of the Brussels post-punk/electro band Organic, KINEX KINEX “Je Peux Pas” new single of the upcoming album “Neon Park” on Strange Little Girl Records
  
• German electro/synth-pop/synthwave/new wave musician Philipp R. Münch, aka The Rorschach Garden “The Rorschach Test” from the album “Grain Culture” on YoungAndColdRecords
  
• Legendary British early 80s synthpop/new romantic trio along with new member Swedish artist and producer Johan Baeckström (Daily Planet etc.), WHITE DOOR “Among The Mountains” from upcoming sophomore “The Great Awakening” on Progress Productions                                                                                                        
• Greek analogue electronic solo project of Nick K. Maldoror (a.k.a. Nick Kapantzakis, one half of Human Puppets & Dislocation Genders, also member of Plexiglas), aka CONVEX MODEL “Politics of Lust” from the new album “Quantity of Motion”
  
• Bay Area post-punk/darkwave/new wave project of Gabriel Ramos, aka Ssleeping Desiress “Can You Hear Me?” from the new album “Exile House” on Onderstroom Records.
  
• American/Slovakian NewWave/Darkwave/Synthpop/Doomwave duo of Raymond Nelson and André Savetier, aka Deus Faus “Hotspur” taken from the new “Geisterwelt” EP
  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico post-punk/coldwave/synthwave trio (formerly Loss Of Breath), STILL YEARS “The Orderly Life of Things” second single (all profits will be donated to support Street Safe New Mexico)
  
• Montreal, Québec post-punk/minimal synth/coldwave solo project BESATZUNG “Vapeurs” from the EP “Perte d’identité”
  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico goth/coldwave/darkwave one-man-band THE ENDLESS “Say Goodbye” from the new S/T EP
  
• Los Angeles‘ goth/darkwave/coldwave project of Aryan Ashtiani aka MAREUX “Gopnik” from upcoming new EP “Predestiny” out April 10th via the L.A. based label I Heard It In Paris                                                                 
• Mexican Dark-Wave/Synth project of Daniel Rossier, DAS LEIDEN “Fühlen (Sentir)” from “Wounds” EP
  
• Mexican synth electronic/chiptune/post-punk/deathwave solo project from Monterrey, Vestron Vulture “Motion Sickness” new single
  
• Mexico City future pop/synthpop/minimal electronics solo project Obsolenia “End Game” from the EP “Secuencias Mínimas” on We Are One Records
  
• Fresno, CA post-punk/coldwave trio (formerly Alone In My Room), SEX POISON “Saturn’s Dance” from “Soviet America” EP
  
• Italian industrial/synthwave/coldwave/electro-dark/minimal wave solo project from singer of Rome‘s post-punk band of Echoes of Silence, eNiB “No Way Out” from the upcoming album “Cut” on Wave Records
  
• Kansas City‘s post-punk 4-piece FALSE BROTHER “Children of Light” from the upcoming album “Uncanny Valley” on Iron Lung
  
• Oakland, Ca based goth post-punk/deathrock band Ötzi “Moths” from the upcoming sophomore album “Storm” on Artoffact Records
  
• Russian coldwave/new wave/post-punk outfit from Novosibirsk, Siberia, BUERAK / Буерак ‘Среди них ты’ new 4-track EP
  
• German coldwave/post-punk 3-piece PAAR “Common Crimes” from the new debut album “Die Notwendigkeit der Notwendigkeit”
  
• London based lo-fi/garage/synth-punk project of Ukrainian musician Theo Krivosheyev, POWERPLANT “A Spine” off upcoming 7″/cassette single “A Spine / Evidence” via Static Shock Record and Dreamland Syndicate
  
• Chicago‘s experimental noise /post-punk trio made of Alianna Kalaba along with former Disappears Noah Leger and Brian Case, FACS “Teenage Hive” from the new third album “Void Moments”, out now via Trouble In Mind Records
  
• Australian DIY alt/post-punk outfit from Brisbane fronted by guitarist/vocalist Matt Kennedy, Kitchen’s Floor “Expiry” from 2-track single “Expiry & Before Dawn”
  
• Californian psychedelic/shoegaze/post-punk band Silent Pictures “Sirens” from the upcoming 3rd album by Silent Pictures to be released in 2020 on Green Fuse Records
  
• UK post-punk/darkwave splinter project by Klaus Devore from Nottingham, CLAUSTRAPHOBIA “Lights (KD Remix)”                                                                                                                                                                       
• French synthwave / minimal synth outfit LA MAIN “Silence” first excerpt from the new album of LA MAIN “La Mélodie du Sombre” on Unknown Pleasures Records                                                                                               
• French new wave/electronic solo project from Paris, After L’Amour “Mensonges d’A” title track from upcoming EP                                                                                                                                                              
• Edinburgh, UK based experimental electro-pop artist WAKE UP! “The Powers” off of the debut EP, “The Powers and the Ways of Altruistic Love” on Paradise Palms Records
  
• Dreamwave/ethereal wave/goth-pop project of German–Brazilian multidisciplinary visual artist and musician Gloria de Oliveira “The Field Where I Died (Dreamed By Box And The Twins)” from “Fascination” on La Double Vie/Reptile Music
  
• Canadian dark synth minimal electronic solo project of Sabarah Pilon from Fredericton, DenMother “Is it greener?” off of the new album “Then Now Forever”
  
• Paris, France dream pop/coldwave/avant pop duo Sarah Pitet & Baptiste Leroy (members of Fiasco), HELIUMS “Old Joys Remain” from the debut vinyl EP “Morning Dunes” on In Silico Label
  
• French coldwave/synthpop artist, Aude Vaisselle “Les avions qui passent” from the EP “Banshees” on Harpies Records
  
• Lisbon, Portugal experimental/synthpop/new wave/coldwave solo project by Pedro Morcego from Phantom Vision, aka Liquid Land “A Sign”
  
• Russian coldwave/new wave/post-punk solo project FUNNY GAMES [забавные игры] “Силуэты” new single
  
• Denver, CO shoegaze/post-punk band Juliet Mission “Surren” title track from the new EP
  
• Kyiv, Ukraine lo-fi synth-punk solo project Олексій Дьячков – ‘Не такий’ from the new EP ‘Вечір/evening’           
• Russian coldwave/synth-punk/post-punk band from Rostov-On-Don, Nauchnyy Sotrudnik ‘Однажды в Тбилиси” from new album ‘Сиротский союз’
  
• Stockholm, Sweden coldwave/post-punk band SATELLITSTAT “Satellistat” new single on Bad Alien Productions                                                                                                                                                 
• US darkwave/coldwave synth project of Veronica Campbell, DEATH LOVE VERONICA “Every Time” from the new album “Lucid Dreams” on SwissDarkNights
  
• Italian old school goth/post-punk duo from Genoa, MEMORY LOST “She Fades Away”
  
• Oakland, Ca darkwave/synthwave solo project Neglectic – “Make Believe” from the LP “In to Damage”
  
• Alaska‘s synth-driven goth/coldwave/darkwave project Masquerade Generation “Afternight” from the 4th LP “Auspex”
  
• Florida‘s dark-synth project from Gainesville, DETERRITORY “Vacation Colony” from the cassette “Boundary Problems” on Popnihil
  
• Detmold, Germany new wave/post-punk band ECHO MODE “The Challenge”
  
• French synthwave/coldwave solo project (aka Mourir Bête), Nestor Makhno “Malicia” from the EP “Mon <3 À 120BPM” on 1 EP par jour records
  
• Lille, France electro-punk/synthwave solo project EULFI “Shadows” new single
  
• Galesburg, Illinois lo-fi/deathrock project Bondage Freaks “Perish” from “2020 Demo” EP on Jazz Age Records
  
• San Juan, Puerto Rico hc/post-punk/punk Desahuciados “Incertidumbre” new single
  
• Mexican dark synthwave artist DANIELA VALD Feat. GOD CAT “Aquì” new single on We are one Records
  
• Lancaster, UK noise-pop/post-punk band TV FACE “O Death is Coming” from “LIKE DOMINOES” E.P.
  
• French indie /post-punk band from Lille, THE CURVES “Meet You There” from the upcoming album “Queen”.
  
• Glasgow, UK disco-dance-postpunk band PLEASURE POOL “Night Scars” from “Night Scars” EP on Optimo Music
  
• Moscow, Russia coldwave/post-punk band воздух окраин [Vokrain] ‘Цепями” from the debut album ‘Вечность’ on Raw Pop Syndicate
  
• Costa Rica‘s gothic rock/darkwave/dream pop project of Eva Red, aka RED APPLE CULT “Devotion” new single
  
• Louisiana/Houston goth/darkwave/dark electronic/industrial solo project (aka Vide), Anonymous Hands “Haunt”
  
• Alicante, Spain electro/minimal wave/new beat/retrowave/synthwave project of Arturo Daniel Marín Ramos (Motori Minarelli, Arturo Marín), SOVIET GYM “MÁS ALLÁ” from the album “Épica Functional. part.I”