Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips #24
Picks Of The Week:
- Palmira, Colombia industrial/minimal synth/minimal wave solo project HUMAN 80 “La fábrica de la muerte” on Navel Records
Proof of the increasingly strong and fervent Colombian dark synth scene, and industrial electronic in general, here is the new hard-hitting, robotic, cold, minimal synth wave dance cracker from Palmira‘s producer Anthony Said Grueso.
- Nantes, France coldwave/new wave/synth-pop project of Niko Disorder, aka PRINZESSIN “Rise” new single on TONN Recordings.
New single from French musician harnesses its addictive and persuasive ways through repetitive beats, hypnotic basslines and soaring dramatic glassy synths, over rich, pained, brooding vocals make for, at once crystalline and sultry, elegant synth-pop goodness.
- Norfolk, Virginia darkwave/goth music project created by Thomas Duerig, aka THE PURGE “Rain” title track from forthcoming album.
New spectral and ominous post-punk song, possibly one of his best to date, from Virginia based Thomas Duerig, aka The Purge. Dire and pained vocals cut a sway through an unsettling, murky, claustrophobic instrumental atmosphere of dark alluring gothic mystery.
- Rhode Island-based experimental industrial artist, composer, and performer Kristin Hayter aka LINGUA IGNOTA “Do You Doubt Me Traitor” from the new upcoming album “Caligula” out July 19, on Profound Lore Records
- Northern Irish experimental/dark electronic/avant garde solo project of Belfast-based, former Girls Names guitarist, Philip Quinn, aka GROSS NET “Gentrification” from the upcoming album “Gross Net Means Gross Net by Gross Net” on Felte
- La Ciotat, South of France darkwave/coldwave/post-punk outfit PARADISE COVE “In My Mind (instrumental)”
- Mexican synth-pop /post-punk project of Edwin Hernandez aka SheUsedToBeHuman “La Luna”
- Portland-based post-punk band SOFT KILL “Wanting War (Audiotree Live Version)” from upcoming live EP “Soft Kill on Audiotree Live”
- French darkwave/post-punk/coldwave duo from Lille, Dageist – ”Ciel de Cendres” from the new album “Sexy” on Dance Macabre and Lynch Law Label (vinyl)
- Spanish coldwave/post-punk 4-piece from Madrid, DILK “No Reasons Why” from the debut S/T EP
- Bristol, UK ethereal/dream pop/darkwave/synth-pop duo Death by Magic “Rewind” new single
- Milwaukee, WI goth/coldwave/post-punk 2-piece of Christopher Belkofer and Erik Gosnell, GENAU “Should Be Recording” off of “Local/Live on WMSE” EP (May 28th 2019)
- Argentinian darkwave/post-punk solo project from Buenos Aires, Mvgre ”Neovampirismo” new single
- Durham, UK EBM/techno/industrial/synth-pop project of H.Weeks, aka Power Literacy “After All” from the EP “And From The Ashes” on Soft Verse.
- Hamburg, Germany death-punk/wave/post-punk trio VOID // GIST “Repression” from new album “Sophisma”
- French gothic tribal post-punk band NOVA ET VETERA “Demain” from the new album “Au delà” on Manic Depression Records
- Fort Worth, TX experimental/new wave/cosmic/gothic rock duo Pinkish Black “Until” from the album “Concept Unification” on Relapse
- Brazilian experimental/noise/post-punk/psychedelic collaborative unit RAKTA & DEAFKIDS “Forma” from the 2-song EP “FORMA/SIGILO” on Dama da Noite Discos / Nada Nada Discos
- New York-based, Spanish synth/darkwave/shoegaze/post-punk solo project OSCURIDAD ROMÁNTICO “It’s all gone”
- Stockholm based Russian–Swedish electro/noise/synth-punk duo GHLOW “Mess With Me” new single out now via PNKSLM Recordings
- Madrid, Spanish lo-fi/garage rock/post-punk 4-piece Hickeys ”Alegria Di Vision” debut single
- Kansas City‘s new wave/garage-punk band lead by Warm Bodies und BB-Eye‘s Ian Teeple, NATURAL MAN BAND “Holes In The Crust” from the EP “Natural Man & The Flamin’ Hot Band” on Mutants 4 Nuclear Waste / Neck Chop Records
- US darkwave/cold wave synth project of Veronica Campbell, DEATH LOVE VERONICA “Black Masses” from the debut album “Three Acts” on SwissDarkNights
- Nashville, Tennessee Gothic Rock recording project consisting of Brandon Pybus of Sonsombre and Michael Louis of Chronic Twilight, Shadow Assembly “Languish” from the album “Ghostcrawl”
- Sunderland District, UK darkwave/gothic rock duo ANGELS OF LIBERTY “Venus Aeon” from the second album “Servant Of The Grail”
- Russian electro-industrial/darkwave musician Dmitry from Kazan, LONDON SADNESS ”My Desire [you]” from the new EP “The Palace of the [Fox]”
- UK post-punk/darkwave splinter project by Klaus Devore from Nottingham, CLAUSTRAPHOBIA “Blind” from the new album “Cast Aside”.
- US post-punk/darkwave solo project LAPIS EXILIS ”Butterfly” from the upcoming sophomore album “NIHIL”
- Russian dark synth post-punk band from Moscow, The Forced Oscillations “Machines 201119” from the new EP ‘тусклый день, серый камень’
- Leeds, UK synthwave/synth-pop/new wave electronic artist Andrew Ellison, aka ELTRONN “No Snow In Winter (feat. Beraud)” from 5-track EP “Dark Circuit”
- Valencia, Spain post-punk trio MAUSOLEO “Ritos” from the debut EP “EXTRAÑO”
- Costa Rica based gothic/new wave/post-punk act from San Josè, Ariel Maniki And The Black Halos “Like Rain” from the upcoming LP “Jade”
- German darkwave/post-punk duo featuring Katja Dreßler and Stephen “Digger” Dawes aka The Comfortably Strange “Indoctrinate” new single
- Australian Darkwave / Dream Pop / Post- Goth project from Brisbane, LOCUST REVIVAL “Holes (demo)”
- Tijuana, Mexico goth synth electronic dream pop artist DANI SHIVERS “Solo quiero morir” from the new EP “UNA SECTA BASADA EN TI”
- Belgrade, Serbia experimental/no wave/coldwave solo project, овек без очију [covek bez ociju] “Последњи човек на земљи 8.1 и 8.2”
- Dutch electro/new wave/synthwave/synth-pop project by Willem Stinissen from Amsterdam, Raderkraft “De Witte Streep (The White Line)”
- Dalarna, Sweden coldwave/synthwave /synthpop producer Lars-Göran Forsberg aka FOPMUSIC “Your Eyes”
- London/Liverpool, UK dark minimal synth /coldwave /primitive electronic music project THIS IS THE BRIDGE “At The Heart There is a Void”
- German electro / synthpop project of Harry Haller from Essen, FOKKER “Plague Spring”
- Croatian cold/noir minimal electronica producer/dj (aka Honored Matres, LCN, Fiume), Le Chocolat Noir “Crna Ruža” title track of the upcoming 5-track cassette on She Lost Kontrol
- Belgian darkwave/dark pop/synthpop music & visual project by former The Hermetic Electric’s duo, O.C.D [Obsessive Compulsive Disorder] “I Need Help” from O.C.D ‘début’ EP
- Philadelphia spiritual folk /new wave /post-punk band Destroying Angel “Force The Occasion” from new sophomore album “Making Beds in a Burning House” out now on FDH Records
- Baltimore shoegaze/darkwave/post-punk 4-piece PAINTED MIRROR – “Sorry (Not Sorry)” from the the new EP “Slow Tide”
- Melbourne based indie/post-punk band ANSWERS “Into This Melody” from S/T debut album on Husky Recordings
- Leeds, UK post punk/synthpop/ ‘grave pop’ outfit BLEACHED HEAT “A Cupboard Somewhere” from the album “Dread (2015 – 2018)”
- Berlin-based experimental/electronic/dark ambient/post-industrial/darkwave project by Warsaw‘s duo Lee and Michal Laudarg aka NNHMN [Non-Human Persons] “Omen” from forthcoming album ✣The Church Of No Religion ✣ via k-dreams records
- Exarchia, Greece darkwave / postpunk outfit ROAD 377 – ”Anxious Years”