Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips #25
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Argentinian minimal wave darkwave artist from Córdoba, Ditta Perdita “Graduación”
Argentinian darkwave artist captivates with ominously hypnotic and dismal atmospheres, combining resonant crunchy beats, bleak pulsing bassline, frigid bleeding synths, over haunting vocals into cold, gloomy and nostalgic transcendence of heart and soul, where past and present sorely collide
- San Francisco based industrial/gothic rock/darkwave project VIO\ATOR “Oblivion” new single
Bay Area industrial darkwaver unleashes menacingly hypnotic dark strains of pain and isolation, dripping from the icy synth swells, whirring bassline, and rapid rolling beats, shattered in outbursts of anger and hopelessness
- Dark Punk/synthpop band from Singapore, PROSPEXX – “Worthless” from debut EP “Demo 2020“
Singapore band debuted with a demo rich with 80s-influenced atmospheric and melancholy synthpop, heightened by dark and dreamy vocals that weave sadness and comfort around bright shimmering synth chords, that’s unsettling, catchy and deeply emotional all at that same time.
- Edinburgh, UK based baroque pop/chamber jazz solo project of Madrid-born singer/songwriter/pianist Amaya López-Carromero, aka MAUD THE MOTH “Finisterrae” from the upcoming third album “Orphnē”
- Spanish electronic/minimal synth/darkwave project from Barcelona, INTERSIGNO “Critical damage” from “Outer Space” EP
- Brazilian dark electronic/darkwave project Miseries Of Time ‘II’ from debut S/T EP
- California‘s coldwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project ACCUMORTIS “Rehearsed Dialogue” new single
- Los Angeles based dark electro/darkwave project of artist and musician, Gerren Reach, aka BLOOD HANDSOME “Atmosphere” (Joy Division cover) on Cleopatra Rec.
- Mexican minimal synth /EBM musician (also half of Neue Strassen), Werner Karloff “TV News” from the upcoming EP “Illuminated displays”
- London, UK dark minimal synth primitive electronic music project THIS IS THE BRIDGE “Dead England” (lyrics adapted from ‘Auguries of Innocence’, 1863, by William Blake) from the new album “Songs From a Dead England”
- Zagreb, Croatia dark synth electronic solo project Man of Cloth “Shadow to Shadow (w/ Zarkoff)” off cassette album “Incense” on Lab Personnel
- Berlin-based darkwave/minimal wave/synthpop/coldwave duo of Ryan Ambridge (synths & programming) and Alison Lewis aka Zoè Zanias (vocals, lyrics), LINEA ASPERA “Solar Flare” from the upcoming album “Linea Aspera LP II”
- Berlin-based Canadian electropop/synthwave project of multi-disciplinary artist, designer and performer SALLY DIGE “It’s You I’m Thinking Of (XTR HUMAN Remix)”
- Reykjavík‘s electronic synth dark pop solo project of Kælan Mikla‘s Sólveig Matthildur – “Window” new single
- Italian coldwave/post-punk/darkwave solo project of Marco Cattani (a member of HALO EFFECT), Chemical Waves – “Slit (feat. Ill Humans)” from the new album “Lasting Forever” on ScentAir Records
- Berlin-based, Moscow synth-pop/coldwave/synthwave project of Magnetic Poetry duo Oksana and Dima Ivashinin, aka Låska – ‘Into The Smoke’ from the upcoming album “Strangers” on DKA Records
- Berlin-based, St. Petersburg-bred experimental/ambient/minimal/synth electronic musician and singer, Galina Ozeran aka CHIKISS ‘Будет Все Хорошо / It’s Gonna Be Alright” [based on the song of the band “НОЛЬ“] from upcoming album “Между временем и ленью”/ “Between time and laziness”
- Belgian solo electro/new wave/post-punk/kraut/electronic project of Raphaël Haubourdin, a founding member of the Brussels post-punk/electro band Organic, KINEX KINEX “Je Peux Pas” from the new album “Neon Park” new single
- Augsburg, Germany based synthpop/post-punk solo-project created by Belarusian musician Arthur Tsymbal with partial support by Moscow‘s keyboarder Egor Ivakhnenko, The Violent Youth – “Танцуй/Tantsui” new single from the forthcoming album “Tam Gde Nas Net”.
- Boston, Ma post-punk/darkwave/coldwave project TRUTH FAITH “Again” debut single off the upcoming cassette and 7″ on Negation Is Freedom.
- Adelaide, Australia synthwave/darkwave duo The Cold Field “Puppet Pulls The Strings” from the debut LP “Black River” on Shipwreck Recordings
- Swedish darkwave/post-punk duo based in Stockholm, HEXATE “Sisters” debut single
- Prague, Czechia post-punk/new wave band A DULL SET “Emerge” from “What Kind of Spectacle” EP on ODDITY Records
- Portland-based post-punk band SOFT KILL “Memory Loss” from the fundraising single “Memory Loss” b/w “Stuck To The Ceiling” to be released as the b-side of a 4-song 12″ EP coming later this year
- Rosario, Argentina punk/post-punk trio BELARUS “Desencantos” from the new EP “Piezas Sobrantes”
- Moscow, Russia dreampop/cold wave/new wave one-man-band by the vocalist from In a Lonely Place, Michael Omelchuck, Пожар aka Pohzar ‘Оказалось я кричу один’ off the 2-track single ‘Оказалось я кричу один b/w Мёртвый принц’ on Perfect Aesthetics
- French coldwave/minimal wave/EBM-duo from Rouen, Hammershøi “Cathédrales” from S/T album on SwissDarkNights Label
- Washington, D.C. based synth & beats laden ‘rock’n’roll’ darkwave duo of Luna Blanc and Josh Clark, S Y Z Y G Y X “Don’t Look back” off V/A “Electronic Saviors Volume 6: Reflection” compilation on Distortion Productions
- Paris, French new wave/synthwave/dark pop solo project (formerly known as After l’Amour), Jezekaël “A Warning” from upcoming EP “Highlife”
- Dublin, Ireland dark electronic/synthpop all-girl trio Everything Shook “Stand Ajar” new single from the upcoming second album
- Paris / Barcelona electronic/post-punk trio Des Âmes Libres “Enemy remixed by MANDIVULA“
- Belgian veteran minimal synth/darkwave/synthwave/electrowave musician ENZO KREFT “It’s Going On And On” new single
- Norway‘s pioneer industrial dark electronic act, Apoptygma Berzerk “Soma Coma” from the EP “Nein Danke!” on Pitch Black Drive Productions
- New York-based industrial/dark electro/dark pop project of former Spahn Ranch member Athan Maroulis, aka NOIR “Death Is Easy” from V/A “Electronic Saviors – Electronic Music To Cure Cancer Vol VI: Reflection” on Metropolis Records
- Champaign, IL dark electronic music project from producer/composer Mad Madam Em and production/ soundscape artist ASH, aka PLIKE “Dust (Cryosleep Mix)” from the EP “Soteria”
- Gateshead, UK synthpop/synthwave duo TAKE THE NIGHT “Lost Days” new single
- Lowell, Massachusetts dark synthpop project FATIGUE “Bury It” (CHVRCHES Cover) fundraising single
- Berlin-based, Bristol‘s dark electro-disco/synthpop Dj-producer Antoni Maiovvi, aka Jason Priest “Robes” from the album “Is Missing”
- Los Angeles based dark electronic artist BARA HARI “White Noise” off the EP “Pandora’s Box”
- San Diego synthpop duo, GLASS SPELLS “Night Hour” new single
- Toronto based synthpop/post-punk project of the founding member of Odonis Odonis, SCRATCH “Melt” from debut EP “Something To Do”
- Pueblo, Colorado experimental post-punk duo project Stealjoy ~ “North Star” title track from “Stealjoy EP”
- French minimal synth-punk /coldwave project from Rennes, Cripure “Tissu d’amertume” from “Netra” EP
- German-language electro-acoustic body music duo based out of Oklahoma City, Karger Traum “Das Ende” from the upcoming LP “III” co-released by Fixed Rhythms and DKA Records.
- Spanish synthwave/darkwave/post-punk project from Málaga, Indice de Inviernos ”Death by Flanger” from the new EP “Death by Flanger”
- Bochum, Germany post-punk/new wave/synthwave band MIKROPLAST “Nikotin”
- Hamburg, Germany darkwave/synth/postpunk music producer DARK “Forever Suffer” debut single
- French goth/post-punk/coldwave solo project from Orléans, GLASSZONE “Restless Night” title track from the new EP “Restless Night”
- Californian psychedelic/shoegaze/post-punk band Silent Pictures “In Your Arms” from the upcoming 3rd album by Silent Pictures to be released in 2020 on Green Fuse Records.
- New Orleans, Louisiana industrial/glam/no-wave/punk 4-piece SPECIAL INTERESTS “Head” from the new album “The Passion Of” via Night School (EU) and Thrilling Living (US)
- Melbourne/Naarm post-punk three-piece Crash Material “Hands On A Hard Body” off their upcoming debut EP
- Melbourne based ‘bratwave’ duo (formerly Heat Wave) featuring Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt, Hearts and Rockets “MIlkbar” new single on their own Psychic Hysteria Recordings
- Russian indie/shoegaze/post-punk trio from Moscow, Культодиночества [kultodinochestva] ‘Снег’ from the debut album ‘Истлеть’
- New Hampshire shoegazey/jangly post-punk solo project OLD MOON “Tyranny” from the sophomore EP “Past Lives”
- Danish new wave/post-punk trio from Copenhagen, The Foreign Resort “Stand Back (feat. Anna Bouchard of Drowner)” [Stevie Nicks cover] on Artoffact
- French experimental/post-punk/coldwave project of Yannick Rault, Closed Mouth “I Can See” from the new third album “Conversation Piece” on Icy Cold Records
- Arkhangelsk, Russia coldwave/post-punk/gothic rock project (one half of konsum kultur), Фактор Давления [Factor Pressure] “Ancient evil” new single
- Portland, Oregon darkwave project by Amy Azucena and Conor Knowles of Dancing Plague, Psychic Guilt “Carousel” off the new EP “Eons”
- Brazilian darkwave project from Ceará, RATPAJAMA “Parasita” new single
- German post-punk/coldwave/postwave solo project, A Transition “Good Riddance” from the new EP “Meliorism”
- Hamilton, UK goth/darkwave project of Lea Torn, THE SECRET EXPERIMENT “Shelter” title track from the new EP “Shelter”
- Dallas, TX post-punk band fronted by Leah Lane, Rosegarden Funeral Party “Fear of Feeling Nothing” from the new EP “At the Stake”
- Helsinki electro synth-punk /death-pop solo project by the frontwoman of Masquerade, Wild Roses Of Winter & keyboardist/backing vocalist of Virgin in Veil, Suzi Sabotage “They Can’t Breathe” new BLM fundraising single
- Adelaide, Australia dream pop/minimalistic post-punk 3-pieces of Harriet Fraser-Barbour (Workhorse, Fair Maiden, Wireheads, Ripple Effect Band), Elena Nees (Allume, Rex Wonderful & The Silk Sheets) and Lauren Abineri (Waterbear, JEM), INTRODUCTION “Rollercoaster” from the new debut cassette S/T EP on Tenth Court
- Bogotá, Colombia darkwave solo project of Desasociado, aka отмеж “Enfermedad” new single on Tres incendios temporales
- UK lo-fi/ambient/synthwave/minimal/synth electronic project Defender Waves “Shoulders Of Helen (ft. Dallas Tears)” from “The Caroline Phase” EP