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

• Los Angeles-based shoegaze /new wave /indie rock /post-punk singer-songwriter The Sea At Midnight “Chopping Them Down” single
  

New song, after quite a long break, from our familiar one-man band based in L.A., typical of his refined and poignant atmospheric songwriting, steeped in 80s wave /post-punk leanings, this time suggesting us to think about our future through a lens of care instead of profit. A sonorous heartfelt vocal hangs over a vibrant and cracking downtempo flow of sparkling wistful guitars, sombre abrasive riffs and desolate synth melodies, to rise with impassioned hopeful intensities, amid lingering strained echoes of haunting dread.

• New York goth /coldwave /post-punk solo project (aka Stereo Julia), Cemetery Dolls – 絶望 (Despair)” single
  

Moody classic dark romantic Post-punk number from the New York artist, a frustrated love song rooted in hopeless disconnection drives steady tight drum beats and urgent lithe basslines, to fuel meandering eerie guitars washed in reverb, compelling a haunting glistening haze of piercing despair to drift with dry bitter spoken words into unrelenting echoes of sorrow.

• Hamburg, Germany neue NDW /minimal synth act part of Ölband Kassetten Team, Harald Kress – “Autism Orders” single [Ölband Kassetten]

“Neue Neue Deutsche Welle” from Hamburg with a tense and alienating slice of chilly minimal-synth, as the title implies, about an estranged soul who creates a haunting and oppressive self-enclosed realm by stifling icy shivering glowing swells, and sinister buzzing strains over a jittery rushing of tight heart-beat drum programming, while robotic vocals seek understanding, but only find fear.

• Welsh-language Leeds‘ gothic avant-rock power-coven trio of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys), aka Tristwch Y Fenywod “Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du” first single from the S/T album via Night School
  
• Italian ambient /noise /psych /dub /post-punk /experimental musician Giacomo Stefanini (member of Kobra and Sentiero Futuro collective), aka Porta d’Oro “O Sentiero Futuro” from the debut LP “Così Dentro Come Fuori” [Maple Death Records/Legno]
• New York wave /electronic /dream pop /synthpop project R. Missing “The Down That Creeps” single
  
• Dunedin, NZ‘s electronic /post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop trio Death And The Maiden “Waratah” from the third LP “Uneven Ground” via Fishrider Records and Occultation Recordings
  
• Los Angeles electronic /trip-hop /noir pop trio 8mm “Black Cat” single via Grey Market Records
  
• Phoenix, AZ gothic rock /dark wave Some Days Are Darker “Dead Romance” single
  
• Bay Area darkwave /post-punk /gothic rock solo project No Horizon “June Gloom” single
  
• Buxtehude, Germany new wave /synthpop /dark wave one-man project of André Grafert, aka Coloured Tears “Is the one who thinks he can” from “After a Thousand Try or More” LP
  
• Melbourne post-punk /new wave /art pop band Kosmetika ”Reward Risk” 2nd single off the upcoming new album ”Luxury” via Spoilsport Records
  
• Orlando, Florida new wave /post-punk band The Synthetics “Glimpses of Heaven” from “Glimpses of Heaven” (EP)
  
• Dallas, TX Nü Wave /Jangle Pop /Post-Punk band Sculpture Club “Never Have I Ever” from the third S/T album via Born Losers Records
  
• London, UK punk /post-punk /spoken word band (former members of Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas), Marcel Wave “Great British High St.” from the debut LP “Something Looming” via Upset The Rhythm (UK) and Feel It Records (US)
  
• São Paulo, Brazil indie rock /gothic rock /post-punk band Strange Old Robots “Your Place On Earth” from the debut album “Violence”
  
• France-based Orson Wald‘s enigmatic new wave /coldwave project Villa Vide “Distant Zone” single
  
• Arizona synth rock /post-punk duo Black Tapestry “Night Friends” single
  
• Manchester, UK new wave /post-punk quartet IST IST “Repercussions” single
  
• Belarus post-punk /synth-pop group Molchat Doma “Son” from the upcoming 4th LP “Belaya Polosa” via Sacred Bones Records
  
• New York-based goth /new wave /post-punk /synth-wave act, Ren Flowers “Doormat” single
  
• Sacramento, CA post-punk /coldwave /darkwave duo Alma Morta “Drown” single
  
• Colombia Dark Electronic music duo Alex Cortés and Leonardo Jaime, aka Umbrall “Decision” new single
  
• Mid-’80s Belgian post-punk /cold wave band based in Lessines, The Ultimate Dreamers “Implant Loved You?! (Implant Remix)”
  
• Minsk, Belarus new wave /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic solo project Dusken Harmony “Mirror Tears” from the upcoming debut album “Shrouded in Mystery”
  
• Norway dark synthpop artist Fabbrica 82 “Again (Centravibe Remix)” single
  
• Melbourne-based post-punk /darkwave /electropop project of a former member of 80s band Real Life, George Pappas, aka ALIEN SKIN “Equal and None” from “My Beautiful Black” EP [Part 7 of the ‘DARK DAYS EP SERIES’]
• Munich, Germany wave /synth-pop solo act Disreflect “Heaven” from the EP “Lighthouse”
  
• Depeche Mode – “Behind the Wheel (Parralox Remix V3)”
  
• Leeds, UK post-punk/new wave/synthpop /dark pop duo of UK producer Steve Whitfield (The Cure, The Mission, Yann Tiersen) and French singer Fab Nau, aka SCENIUS “Breezing Through It” single
  
• Vienna, Austria industrial /electronic music duo WARTERAUM “Thorns” single
  
• Russian EBM /techno /minimal synth /synthpop duo SYNTHESE “Полуночный транс” single
  
• Mexico City Cold Wave /Minimal Synth analog electronic solo project ESQUELETO OBSOLETO “Geometría Aestética” from the album “Asimetría Perfecta” via Electrosound
  
• Hamburg, Germany neue NDW /post-punk /minimal synth act KÜHLE MATROSEN “mir geht es danke gut” (Plastiktanz cover, 1981)
  
• St. Petersburg, FL industrial /EBM /cold wave /minimal synth electronics solo project ORTROTASCE “Systems Of Love” from the LP “Dispatches From Solitude” via Dark Entries Records
  
• Los Angeles post-punk /wave /synthpop duo Wesley Eisold & Amy Lee, Cold Cave “Hourglass” single via Heartworm Press
  
• French EBM /coldwave /minimal synth duo from Rouen, Hammershøi “Dans L´espace (feat. Oberst Panizza)” from “Dédales” album via Kernkrach
  
• Colombian electroclash /post-punk /synth wave /darkwave /dark electronic solo project based in Bogotà, Noromakina “Hung” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Los Angeles-based new wave /synthpop /post-punk duo, Sacred Skin “Waiting (Single Mix)” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Born In Fire” via Artoffact Records
  
• Italian occult /coldwave /darkwave duo, iamnoone “In fear (DMX RMX)” remixed by DominatrixRMX [Cold Transmission Music]
• Dutch industrial /dark wave /dak electronic duo Vonder “Haunt (Grendel Remix)” from “Haunt” single
  
• Californian drone-metal-art-folk singer-songwriter CHELSEA WOLFE “House Of Self-Undoing (Boy Harsher Remix)” on Loma Vista Recordings
  
• UK techno /EBM /industrial electronics project of William Maybelline (one half of Lebanon Hanover), Qual “Funeral Fashion” off 12″ EP “Techsick”
  
• Hamburg, Germany horror soundtrack /industrial /EBM /techno /electro DJ-producer and live act Johannes Haas, aka L.F.T. “Halbverdient (with Konstantin Unwohl)” from “Minecrawler” EP 12″ [Osàre! Editions]
• Berlin-based body music /techno /synthpop /wave /electronic producer ALIVEMAEX – “Eiskalt (Club Mix)” [Deep Vision Records]
• Phoenix, AZ electronic /darkwave duo MELDAMOR “Angel Rocker” single
  
• Brazilian Darkwave duo Lost Lenore “Made Of Pieces” off the upcoming EP “Lost In Outtaspace” via Systemica Records
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /post-punk solo project The Spoiled – “Dancing On My Grave” 2-track single
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah post-punk /darkwave solo project BALDUVIAN BEARS “Distant Warning” single via darkTunes
  
• Mexico post-punk /new wave band Navaja “Hasta Consumirme” single
  
• Peruvian post-punk /darkwave act Contusion Cerebral – “Presagio Fúnebre” from V.A. “Peruvian New Sounds Vol. 4” compilation LP via Dark Grave
  
• Amsterdam-based dark post-punk one-man band Raw Desire “Avaricia” single
  
• Stuttgart, German indie rock /post-punk trio Die Nerven “DAS GLAS ZERBRICHT UND ICH GLEICH MIT” from the upcoming sixth LP “WIR WAREN HIER” via Glitterhouse Records
  
• Perth, Western Australia indie pop /new wave //postpunk band Rat Columns “Galilee” from “Galilee/Boyfriend” single via Tough Love
  
• Sydney, Australia-based post-punk outfit, NEGATIVE GEARS “Ants” from the debut LP “Moraliser” via Static Shock and Urge Records
  
• German punk and roll /post-punk band from Berlin, Die Verlierer “Harmonie” from the second album “Notausgang” via Mangel Records
  
• Original UK Post Punk drum machine band from Leeds formed in 1981, The March Violets “Hammer the Last Nail” single from the upcoming album “Crocodile Promises” via Metropolis Records
  
• Los Angeles post-punk band Cure For Youth “Life Without Loss” debut 2-track single
  
• Guadalajara, Mexico darkwave /post-punk /gothic rock trio ANIMAL ROJO “The Cage” single
  
• Sweden electro-punk band Container 90 “Hard Knock Life (Brotherhood Remix)”
  
• Hungarian gothic rock /post-punk band Utolsó Hullám “Black Rose” from “Black Rose” EP
  
• Warsaw, Poland goth-punk /deathrock band, Marie†Laveau “Too Bad You’re Gone” single from upcoming debut album via Bat-Cave Productions
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah two piece Post-Punk/ Goth/ Darkwave/ Deathrock/ Dark Punk duo Opaque Shades “Dis-content” single
  
• Valencian punk /post-punk quartet Disciplina Limitar “Glamur interior” from “Yo también yo no” LP 12″ via Flexidiscos
  
• Polish goth-punk /deathrock band from Poznań, Natures Mortes “Bruises” single from upcoming debut album via Bat-Cave Productions
  
• Brazilian Goth Deathrock /Post Punk duo Escarlatina Obsessiva “Mothman” single
  
• Dallas, TX rock & roll /post-punk band Perdidos “Otra Vez” from S/T EP
  
• Dunedin, NZ doom /gothic metal /post-metal post-rock duo REMINA “Erebus” from upcoming “Erebus” (EP)
  
• Warsaw, Poland progressive metal /post-rock /dark folk band Datûra “The Valley” second single from the upcoming album ”Obsidian”
  
• Iowa-based Ancient Medieval Dungeon Synth music project Tyrant of Gorgon “Black as Coffin’s Nail” from the album “The Dead Kingdom”
  
• US ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Serpent’s Isle “Battles Aboard The Main Vessel” from the cassette album “At The Water’s Edge”
  
• Izalzu – Itzaltzu, Spain dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth project Karaz “An Empty Throne” from the album “Tales Carved in Ancient Stone”
  
• Gironès, Spain dark ambient /medieval folk /fantasy /dungeon synth act Frostgard “Coirë” from the album “Coranar”
  
• Eagleswood, New Jersey ‘unplugged dungeon synth’ ambient neo-medieval folk multi-instrumentalist Baerdcyn “A Journey Through Ethereal Realms” from “Best Of” 10″ picture disc EP [Fiadh Productions]