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

• DOUGLAS J MCCARTHY // In Memory Mix by Daniel Myer
  

A heartfelt tribute to the vocalist of the Electronic Body Music pioneers Nitzer Ebb, a powerful voice that will linger forever in our hearts.

• Poznań, PL based cold wave /minimal synth analog electronics British/Polish multi-instrumentalist Vincenzo Wieczerzynski, aka Chaos International “Finale” from V/A “Stanze Fredde Vol. 2” CD [Stanze Fredde Records]

Born as a reaction to the current obscure musical times where the vacuum, the fictitious and the facade reign supreme, the dynamic Turin based Italian label arrives at its second compilation, which testifies to the creative freedom and experimental approach of a burgeoning international crop of up-and-coming bands, unified by stark, visceral, and ragged punk edges, making lo-fi, minimal synth wave on bygone analog equipment, to emphasize a seamless interconnection between the ’80s past heritage and the present moment. An electrifying 17-track collection piled high with little heartfelt, intriguing synth-laden gems, all to be discovered and danced along to.

• Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /darkwave /dark electropop duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “Magic Never Dies” single
  

A dark, sensual, high-energy combination of sleek modern electronic production and teasing vocalizations, through a snappy lashing drum programming, churning bass throbs and eerie synth swirls, sends lush, sultry, electro body shivers over black leather-clad dancefloor worship while wicked whispers, alluring moans, and breathy seductive vocals compel a devotional night of flesh and passion.

• Nantes, France art rock /no wave /post-punk band Moleskine “Non Sense” from the cassette album “Affective Experience Of Urban Space” [Urticaria Records / Chrüsimüsi Records]

Following a brilliant sax-strewn 4-track EP from a couple of years back, the Breton outfit returns with the angular yet melodic, minimalistic take on prickly no wave/post-punk and brilliantly weird art-rock with an alluring groovy, funky edge. The first debut LP preview rolls elastic sonorous bass pulses and vibrant drum beats, to underpin sharp, spindly guitar riffs that obsessively pierce and stretch out against a vocal interplay of elated, aloof female spoken words and bored baritone responses, creating a non-sensical conversation where one person asks another to come with them to get lost.

• Vienna occult /tribal /electronic /dark wave act The Devil & The Universe “Primordial Temples” single [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Hastings, UK post-punk /gothic rock band formed in 1991, Children on Stun “Living Fractures” taken from the soundtrack of Sallen E. Mithe‘s film ‘Scream Lazy, Die Crazy’
  
• Los Angeles-based Dark Wave /Post-punk Latino goth solo project DEATH BY NATURE “Trust” from DEATH IS “X” EP
  
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop duo Nightsister “Retrograde” from “Chill Times in Hell” EP [Summer Darling Tapes]
• Cologne, Germany goth /dark wave band founded in 2003, fronted by lead singer Elisa Day, The SlimP “Nothing To Forget” single [Aenaos Records]
• New Zealand-born, Amsterdam-based post-punk /garage synth-psychedelic solo project of David Tomlinson, aka Minor Crime “P.I.C.N.I.C” first single from upcoming debut LP “Inhumane Bandwidth” [Geertruida]
• Louisville, Kentucky post-punk band PARKiNG “Lantern” from the first LP “Portraits”
  
• Hamburg ’80s new wave /post-punk band FRONT “Vormacht” (1981) from the restored, remixed lost debut LP “Album” [staatsakt]
• Berlin-based electro /wave /synth-punk trio DIE FARCE DIE “Neues Frankfurt” from the cassette album “A MINOR CHANCE FOR A CHARMING FUTURE” [George Korea]
• Lyon, France coldwave /darkwave project Nuit Noire “Lettre Inachevée” from the LP “Cendres d’Amour” [Nuit Noire]
• Rennes, France dark pop /coldwave /post-punk project ECHO FANTOME “Blanc bleu” from “Détours” EP
  
• NYC darkwave/ambient noir /coldwave /electropop solo project R. Missing “Shadowist” single
  
• Québec City, Canada electropop /post-wave band Handful of Snowdrops “The Silence” single
  
• California goth /industrial /electronic/synth-pop /dark wave artist Soft Vein “THROUGH BLINDS – Chaos International Remix” off “FROM ANOTHER ROOM (EP)” [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles experimental /synth-punk /wave /post-punk trio Automatic “Is It Now” single [Stones Throw]
• Augsburg, Germany minimal wave /synth project of Adam Usi, ABFALL “AbFall AufPrall” [Young and Cold Recods]
• Mexico City minimal synth-wave solo project Obsolenia “Ayer” single
  
• Electro /minimal /synth wave side-project between 1982 and 1984 of Belgian mastermind Peter Bonne (A Split-Second, Twilight Ritual, Autumn) with vocalist Lieve Van Steerteghem, Linear Movement – “To Another Soul [Reimagined]” [Chayell / Micrart Group]
• US EBM /coldwave /synth-pop /minimal synth /electronics solo project ORTROTASCE “Mirror Stitched to Static” single
  
• Minnesota electronic /post-punk /synth-pop artist John Maus “Because We Built It” from the upcoming 6th LP “Later Than You Think” [UK Young]
• Trondheim, Norway post-punk /darkwave /new wave band led by Mats Davidsen, aka Painted Romans “Everything Moves” [Single]
• Germany‘s wave /synthwave solo project DerPolier “Strom” single
  
• Athens, Greece-based dark minimal synth duo Incirrina “Only One Smile Alone” a rearranged version of the “The Smile” taken off the album ‘8.15’ (2019) [Cold Transmission Music]
• Brussels EBM /electro /techno /post-punk /coldwave /dark electronic duo ULTRA SUNN “Wrong Floor” from the upcoming second LP “The Beast In You” [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /darkwave /dark electropop duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “Magic Never Dies” single
  
• Finnish goth /darkwave /coldwave /synthpunk artist Suzi Sabotage “Suden synty” single [Out Of Line Music]
• Portland-based post-industrial /EBM /electro /darkwave solo project Dancing Plague “Turn to Dust” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Domain” [Artoffact Records]
• Louvière, Belgium Industrial /Cold Wave /EBM producer Stéphane K. Vandezande (WHISPERED, PEACEFUL WRATH, OVERSEAS NOVA and former member of the dark-folk band ALGIZ), LA NUIT ELECTRIQUE “Deine Jugend” from upcoming LP “EXPERIMENTS IN COLLAPSOLOGY” [whispered]
• Barcelona, Spain EBM /techno /industrial duo, SMFORMA “You” off the upcoming third EP “Quiet Collapse” [Banshees Records]
• Boston, MA experimental EBM /dark dance electronic music collaboration between veteran conspirators Reuben Bettsak and Bo Barringer, aka EX-HYENA “This Is Your Love” single [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Sydney-based witch house /darkwave /synthpop /electronic artist Goo Munday “Real Time” off the LP “Waves” 
• London-based EBM /synth wave /indie dance synth artist Velvet Velour “SPOILED” [Jardin de Bliss]
• English wave /synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London in 1979, Blancmange “Social Secretary” from “Waiting Room (Volume 2)” LP [Blanc Check]
• Milan, Italian Italo disco /synthwave /Italo dance duo Italoconnection “Get What U Want” off “Remixed Sessions” EP
  
• Boston, MA veteran trance /darkwave /electropop 4-piece FREEZEPOP “In Fog (and in Rain)” from the LP “Fog Twenty•Five”
  
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan Post-punk solo act Если Можно | Esli Mozhno “Через экран” [Single]
• Louisville, Kentucky dark wave /post-punk duo of Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, aka Who Saw Her Die? “While the World Burns” from “All But the Blame” EP
  
• Mexican New Wave / Post-punk act Navaja “Abismo” single
  
• Chicago goth /shoegaze /post-punk four-piece Iron Years “Rituals” single and title track of the forthcoming second LP
  
• Californian Post-Punk /Darkwave solo project Casket Cassette “THE END OF THE WHOLE FKN WORLD” single
  
• Essen, Germany indie rock /gothic rock / dark folk artist (Aeon Sable, Melanculia, Deied, hgmr), Nino Sable “In the Chapel of the Love Bats” new single
  
• Astana, Kazakhstan Post-punk / Gothic Rock / Darkwave solo project moonvampire “I’ve died for you so many deadly nights” from the 2-track single “Breathe”
  
• Manchester, UK gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave duo Moth Slut “Times Like This” single
  
• Stuttgart, Germany gothic dark rock band The Last Decade “War” 7″ single
  
• Gothic Rock /Deathrock /Postpunk duo from Mexico City, Scarlet’s Sinister Sister “Regret” single
  
• Montreal, Québec goth /deathrock /post-punk band She Came to Quit “Corpse” from the LP “Black Seed Blooming”
  
• Brittany, France UK style Anarcho-Punk band Toxic Rites “Voice Hunger” from S/T EP [Symphony of destruction]
• New Haven, Connecticut lo-fi /post-punk band SCRT AGNT “Good Enough” from the debut LP “Everybody’s Noise”
  
• Glasgow, Scotland post-punk /folk /C86 /indie pop /jangle /art-punk band Water Machine “Hot Real Estate” from the LP “God Park” [Fat Cat Records]
• Białystok, Polish emo post-punk band Spalone Mosty “Lobotomia” from “DEAD TAHITI / SPALONE MOSTY – SPLIT” album [KOŁO RECORDS/ NO PASARAN RECORDS]
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rock’n’roll /punk outfit United Stare “I Follow You Everywhere You Go” from debut s/t album [Kill Enemy Records]
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /post-punk /egg punk sextet Dragnet – “Red Square” from the third “Reins” LP [Idiotape Records / Spoilsport Records]
• Foxford, Ireland post-rock /electronic /post-punk /noise rock four-piece NERVES “Takes A Second” single
  
• Jutland, Denmark fantasy synth /folk horror /soundtrack /folklore /hauntology /instrumental folk act The Barrowfolk “Return From The Island Meadow” from “Small Graves” LP
  
• Washington ambient /comfy /cozy /fantasy /dungeon synth project Hefnfelth “Perilous Heights” from the cassette album “One Small Quest” [Fiadh Productions]
• Canada astral /comfy /adventure /fantasy dungeon synth act Moth Night “Revealed unto the Night, a Glinting and Glistening Ascent Crystalizes, a Stairway to the Stars” from the LP “Hearthen Tome VIII: Onward To The Astral Bastion” [The Hearthen Ring]
• US fantasy dungeon synth music from the guitarist of Undeath, aka Master Witness “A Fountain in the Dungeon” from “Demo 2025” album [WereGnome Records]