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

• Vienna minimal synth /mutant dancefloor synthpop duo Mitra Mitra "Electron I" title track of the fourth studio album "Glassy Tears" [Feral Child / Micromort]

After three years deep in the static, the Viennese duo returns to dance with their mutant synth sound that fuses minimal 80s aesthetics, hypnotic dance-inflected programmed beats, and lush glowing analog synth carpets, to cast neon-lit shaped narratives of modern dystopia encapsulated by aloof icy vocal charisma, swathed in ghostly menace, and gloomy sensitivity. Mitra Mitra has been able to hold the same familiar magnetism and restraint that made the artistic partnership remarkable in the first place, while naturally developing into something snappier, crispier and more emotionally straightforward.

• French goth /shoegaze /post-punk/coldwave solo project from Orléans, GLASSZONE “A Strange Feeling” from "Lights" EP
  

New 4-tracker of equally atmospheric and monochromatic classic 80s post-punk / Coldwave tropes, amidst a dark folk ending, delivered with enough intensely gloomy, autumnal and melancholic melodic tone in which stands out the guitar-stabbed introspective title track, alongside the Curesque third song about the "Strange Feeling" of wasting time, that bounces through a meandering moody throbbing bass, insistent thorny guitar lines, and soft shivering swirls to frame wistful, ominous male vocals lamenting disconnection, concern, and frustration.

• Stockholm, Sweden 2-piece industrial /electro /synth-pop /electronic music group Hatif "Assembly Line" 2nd single from the upcoming third album [Town And Towers Records]

The Swedish duo deftly balance emotional heft and sobriety within an atmospheric modern electro-pop framework of moody, introspective intensity. The song carries the treadmill circling depressive nature of working servitude by meandering hypnotically through mid-tempo skipping beats, along with pulsing gloomy bass lines and slinky flickering synths with a subtly squelching, slurring tone, laced and swirling Middle Eastern flair, while stressed out, tired male vocals, layered with baritone echoes, surrounded by a lurking hypnotic danger, evoke a sense of melancholy and loneliness.

• Anglo–Irish seminal world music /darkwave musical collective founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance “Mon Amour Sauvage” single
  
• Brooklyn, NYC-based darkwave /dream pop /post-punk band The Harrow “The Drowned World” from “The Drowned World” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based dark wave /jangle pop /new wave /post-punk band Total Pleasure “Hard To Feel” off “Fear Of Passing” EP [à La Carte Records]
• Pittsburgh-based shoegaze /darkwave /dreampop /post-punk band of Shane Sahene and Bobby Spell, formed in 1994, Lowsunday “Shattered” from “Low sunday ghost machine white” EP, first collection of all-new material since 1999 [Projekt Records]
• US oppressive post-punk unit Bleached Cross “Crucible” from the upcoming LP “Wrath” [New Morality Zine]
• Montreal‘s post-punk /shoegaze /darkwave outfit The City Gates“Silence of Her Fate” from the LP “Chimera” [Icy Cold Records / Velouria Rekordz]
• Parisian electro /goth /cold wave /post-punk solo project, Contre Soirée “I Love You” from the debut LP “We Die Alone” [Icy Cold Records]
• Tongeren, Belgium cold wave /dark wave /post-punk solo project TigJez “Colorless life” from “Colorless” EP
  
• Los Angeles, CA goth /synth-pop /darkwave /post-punk solo project Casket Cassette “Show Me a Sign” single
  
• German Darkwave / Coldwave / Post-punk solo project from Hannover, SHV/ARZ “Dancing On The Edge” from the debut LP “ZOGRASCOPE” [Icy Cold Records]
• Columbus, Ohio coldwave /darkwave duo Child Of Night “Compromised” from the album “Conspiracy” [Page Tapes]
• Milan, Italy electronic /industrial /post-punk /darkwave solo project NEVER “HXLDING TIME” from the sophomore album “THE GRAY” [VEYL]
• Los Angeles-based EBM /coldwave /dark synth-driven, Urdu-language music project, Aurat “KhudaHafiz” from “Cobra” EP [Get Better Records]
• Houston, TX gothic /electronic /coldwave /darkwave solo project of Bruce Courtney, aka The Stave Church “Kakistocracy” single
  
• Australian collaboration between electronic-rock band Black Cab and multi-instrumentalist Mat Watson (Other Places, Taipan Tiger Girls), Black Cab + Other Places “Pink Boy” single
  
• Hanover, Germany noise /jazz /cold wave /minimal wave act Der Nachtportier “NekromantikA” from the second LP “Gespenst”
  
• Paris, France minimal /coldwave solo project of dark synth musician Rom B, aka Dead Mascot “Dead to Me” from the new single “Rise / Die”
  
• Glasgow-based synth-driven post-punk solo project of veteran Canadian musician and composer Jack Duckworth (aka JJD9), Soft Riot “Other Future” from the new LP “CRUX” [Possession Records / Minimalkombinat]
• German post-punk /cold wave /minimal wave solo project GRAUZEIT – “Asche im Mund” from “Schwarzes Licht” EP [Schwarzwellen]
• Ohio electronic /new wave /synth-pop /minimal synth solo project Our Unseen Guest “Dimensions of You” from “Fate” album [Tonn Recordings]
• Amsterdam-based electronic /goth wave /darkwave Grimdeluxe “Step by Step”
  
• Vannes, France dream pop /cold wave /synth-pop solo project Rejøysin “la Nuit” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ post-punk /dream pop /synthwave duo Secret Attraction “Moments of Forever” single
  
• Paris, French synthwave /synthpop /EBM /electronic musician, Sydney Valette “I Fucking Love You” single [Artoffact Records] 
  
• Paris-based dark /dreamy synth-pop project of Matthieu Roche, FRAGRANCE. “Contrecœur” (reimagined from “Code Alpha”) from the upcoming album “Cuts of Kintsugi”
  
• Los Angeles cinematic post-punk /darkwave /avant-pop artist Mica, in collaboration with Sinnerella, Elliott Kozel, .com, and Jace Warr, aka Mica Eternal “Wings” from the debut album “Leave My Body Somewhere Dark”
  
• Montpellier, France gothic /techno /darkwave /synthpop duo Denuit “Tiens-moi, le monde tombe” single
  
• Italian darkwave /synth-pop witchy singer-songwriter MYLLA ISSUES – “Modern Vampires” single off the upcoming first album “MY(RAGE)” [Wave Records]
• Scottish dark wave /electronic duo Witch of the Vale “What’s Left Of Me (
• Remix)” from the collection “Lovesongs For The Damned” [Cleopatra]
• UK electroclash /synth-pop act Fused “Subject Line” single
  
• Leipzig, Germany futurepop /synthpop act Twisted Destiny “Forever And A Day” single
  
• Moscow-based acid /leftfield /body music producer Ptichka3000 “Frankfurt (Morze Remix)” from “Frankfurt” EP [Oberwave Records]
  
• Chicago-based techno /electro /darkwave /dark electronic project Sleep Of Mirrors “Alchemize” from “Crown” LP [Negative Gain Productions]
• London-based industrial /dark-electro /dark electronic /glam-goth duo Dead Lights “(The Edge of) Dusk” from the new LP “LASH” [darkTunes]
• Texas EBM /darkwave /industrial /electro solo project Temptrix “Deeper than Skin (Kontravoid Remix)”
  
• Barcelona-based industrial /EBM /darksynth /synthwave electronic solo project Nightcrawler “Course Navette Pt.2” single
  
• Poznań, Poland dark wave /cold wave /post-punk trio After the Sin “Shadow Zone” single
  
• Los Angeles post-punk /darkwave project led by Ray Arroyo, The XRAY5 “Bendición” single [Darkwave Records]
• Seattle, WA 4-piece art rock /synth-punk /post-punk /new wave band Telehealth “Silver Spoon” from the second album “Green World Image” [Sub Pop]
• Salt Lake City, Utah darkwave /post-punk solo project, BALDUVIAN BEARS “Fernweh” single [darkTunes]
• Los Angeles Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project Shadows Hold “Haunt Me” from the upcoming LP “Bound in Chains” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Hungarian gothic rock /dark post punk band Utolsó Hullám “Vér fog ömleni (megint)” from “Csak egy világot adhatok neked” LP
  
• Louisville, Kentucky goth /post-punk /deathrock band Glass Coffin Club “Dance of the End Days” single [Morella records]
• San Francisco veteran deathrock band formed in the early 1980s, Altar De Fey “Blasphemy” from the upcoming “Ghosts: Real and Imagined” EP
  
• Athens, Greece punk /post-punk band Victory Collapse “Industry of PhDs” from the upcoming “Non Player Characters” LP [Inner Ear]
• Manchester, UK 4-piece garage rock and post-punk band Dead Stilettos “Wanna Be Deported” from “Bodge Job” LP [Sour Grapes Records]
• Watford, UK egg punk /post-punk solo project Aidmoozic “My Goitre” from “Archive Series 01: Omissions” EP [2024 – 2026]
• Melbourne noise rock /punk /post-punk four-piece T-Models “Portrait of Swine” off self titled debut EP
  
• Sydney garage /punk band Cammy Cautious and the Wrestlers “Criminal” single
  
• Asheville, NC post-hardcore /post-punk /punk band Tongues of Fire “Things I Should Have Said” from s/t “Tongues of Fire” LP
  
• Italy D.I.Y. fantasy dungeon synth with power metal influences, Hjartans “No force can keep us apart” from “Gifts of Fire and Fury” LP
  
• Sweden dark ambient /fantasy /medieval /dungeon synth project Skeleton Mage “The White City” from “The Halls of Ever Summer” LP
  
• Greek ascetic dungeon synth from rural Crete, Ivory Altar “Withdrawal to Viglia” from “Of the Land and the Woodman” LP [Dale of Shadows]
• Florida dark ambient /vampyric dungeon synth project Crimson Court “Engraved in Midnight’s Dark Embrace” from “Impaled Agony” LP