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

• Parisian experimental electronic /shoegaze /darkwave solo project Sad Madona “Ivory” single
  

Darkwave, shoegaze, emo, three elements that the French songwriter balances to perfection, bridging emotional density and instrumental restraint with the usual insight, in a song about heartbreak, tears, and sorrow, against the backdrop of seeing a loved one cry. Skittering rhythms ceaselessly pulse together with glowing layers of hauntingly forlorn wiry synths that achingly shiver in a heart-rending sensorial swirl alongside ghostly, mournful vocals laced with soft,  painfilled emotions.

• Chicago-based goth /post-punk /dream pop /synth-pop singer, composer and musician Alessia Kato, aka Ghost Days “Fairytale” first single from the upcoming EP
  

Twilit danceable synth-pop, with catchy lovelorn melodies, and vague ethereal darkwave suggestions, blurs into a romantic dreamlike aura driven by punchy skipping old school rhythms awash with melancholic glowing synths and concise sparkly guitar shivers, while layers of high, dreamy vocals anxiously and sensually yearn to be with a loved one.

• Paris, France ambient-drone /synth /post-punk solo project of experimental artist Mathilde Weil, aka Nefas Lucrèce “Là où certains cultivent” from the upcoming release “Adieu Froideur”
  

The experimental project by Mathilde Weil combines atmospheric post-punk with haunting dark folk vocal inflexions in the new single about feeling cold, ‘where others nurture their desire to exist.’ Rattling tight drum patterns, woven with sonorous pinpoint bass throbs, evocative dull, twangy guitar stabs and plaintive violin-like tones, urgently carry intense female vocals, somberly brooding with a weighty resonant sense of sadness and resignation.

• Romanian esoteric ambient /ritual industrial project by Bucharest musician and artist Dan Serbanescu, aka Alone In The Hollow Garden (A.I.T.H.G.) “Ishtar Gate” from “Theriomorphic Temples” LP
  
• New York black metal /dungeon synth /gothic /doom /darkwave project Hours of Worship “The Weight Beneath” from upcoming LP “Resignation”
  
• Liverpool-based goth /electro noise pop /electronic artist JEZEBEL “Never” single
  
• Berlin-based experimental acoustic /dance punk /post-punk duo Lise Sutter of Leipzig‘s Maraudeur and Ronni What of Baton Rouge‘s Marances, Teamwork “horse eating an apple” from upcoming first LP “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” [Feel It Records]
• Los Angeles post-punk/new wave /synthpop new project by Julian Ash (ex Harsh Symmetry), Omnihell – “Hollowing” single
  
• Vancouver, BC veteran ethereal trip-goth-gaze band Perfume Tree “The sea the sea” from the seventh album “Dark gift”
  
• New York-based electropop /darkwave /dream-pop duo R Missing “Long Blue Ink” single
  
• Experimental /dark electro /synthpop solo project (featuring Flip Iskra) of the French founder member and singer of the iconic 80s Lyon-based minimal synth duo Deux, Cati Tête “Pas Réaliste” from “État de Choses” LP
  
• Los Angeles-based by way of NYC and Oakland post-punk /darkwave/noise goth trio Chalk Teeth “Oscillopsia” from the debut “Chalk Teeth” LP [Dum Dum Records]
• Rennes, France experimental /cold wave /minimal synth project of Boris Völt, Mode in gliany “VIOLA” single
  
• Germany-based, Japanese cold wave /minimal synth musician Nao Katafuchi “Love And Superstitions” from “Lonely Fire” LP [Kernkrach]
• Scotland-based minimal wave /post-punk /synth-pop artist Propter Hoc “The Great Derangement” from “Dramaturgy” LP [Cold Transmission Music]
• German dark wave /synthpop /post-punk solo project A TRANSITION feat. Hèrbé “Civil Disobedience” from “Echoes” (EP)
  
• Melbourne-based new wave /post-punk solo project High Control Group “Hole In Heaven” from the cassette  LP “Limited Hangout”
  
• Italian post-punk /darkwave solo project based in Milan, NEVER “AMPHIBIENS feat. Contre Soirée” from the second LP “THE GRAY” [VEYL]
• Russian post-punk /coldwave duo founded in 2020 by Yegor “Melnigore” Melnikov and Nikita “St. Theodore” Theodorov, Midnight Passage “Mirage” from the second LP “Ritualist”
  
• Mulhouse, France, darkwave /gothic rock band Sexblood “Radium Girl” single
  
• Belgian goth /post-punk /darkwave project The Gateway Process “The night we learned to die” single
  
• Texas coldwave /darkwave solo project of Dallas-based musician Alex Yanez, aka Breath Play “Serpent” single
  
• Belize-based international synth-pop /darkwave /synthwave act Dead Astronauts “Get Lost” first single from their upcoming 5th studio album, “Shallow Grave” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Norwegian enigmatic dungeon synth /dark electronic /industrial rock artistic entity Håvard Ellefsen (former Emperor), MORTIIS “Violent Silence” from the “Ghosts of Europa” LP [Prophecy Productions]
• Stockholm, Sweden industrial /EBM /synth-pop /post-punk trio ARMOURS “Body” from the debut “Body” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based industrial /minimal synth /EBM /electronic duo SPIKE HELLIS “Entirely Mine” from upcoming “Successor” LP
  
• Berlin-based dark disco /indie dance /darkwave /EBM /synthwave /electro trio of electronic producer Kalipo and producer/DJ duo Vamparela and Brax Moody (aka Local Suicide), Dina Summer “Children Of The Night” from upcoming mini album, “Children Of The Night” [Iptamenos Discos]
• Californian EBM /darkwave /dark electro solo project of producer Brian Vega, aka Blood Rave “The Burning Field” from V/A “Made By Humans” LP [WIE EIN GOTT]
• San Diego, CA solo synth-pop /darkwave project Cruelties “In Circles” from the s/t album [Human Future Records]            
• Los Angeles wave /electro-punk solo act Secret Mutilator “The Face” from “The Internet Database” LP
  
• Colombia minimal wave /EBM solo project of Ali Said, aka HUMAN 80 “Demagogo” single [Navel Records]
• Ambient /EBM /industrial /post-punk experimental music DIY project helmed by the Philadelphia/New York-based artist Rhoya, Unboned “Love not Fair” single
  
• Italian post-punk band from Milan, FAGLIA “Monumento” single
  
• Indonesian indie /noise pop /post-punk duo paledream – “A Life” from “Journey to Fast” EP [Sunday Snacks]
• Leipzig, Germany wave /post-punk band mantarochen “Soft Collapse” from “Wellness Ward” EP
  
• Russian goth /darkwave /post-punk project Конец Электроники / The End of Electronics “Vampire’s Kiss” from “КОНСТРУКЦИЯ” LP
  
• Italian post-punk /darkwave band The Autumn Aurora “Plastic Alter” first single
  
• Washington, DC psych /gothic rock /post-punk quartet, Winter Sect “Say Goodbye” single
  
• Los Angeles-based esoteric Post Punk artist Heather Galipo (Egrets on Ergot, Prissy whip and part of the present edition of The Deadbeats), aka CrowJane “Songs of Sparrows” single from upcoming LP [Kitten Robot Records]
• Texas dark post-punk /goth band Altar of Eden “Days & Nights” from cassette album “Ruido Y Maldicion Sessions” [Sound Grotesca]
• Louisville, Kentucky, post-punk /raw deathrock band Glass Coffin Club “Cadence of Cruelty” from “End of Time” EP [Morella Records]
• Detroit City Death Rock / Post-Punk band ORPHAN “Dysmorphia” from “Inner Sanctum” LP [Sangreal Records]
• Warsaw, Poland anarcho deathrock band EAT MY TEETH “Now Act Dead” from “Eat My Teeth” LP
  
• US ambient /sci-fi /fantasy /dungeon synth project Psychic Hood – “Encounter with an Astral Spectre” from V/A “Company of the Wessex Dungeons, MMXXVI – Dungeon Hymns” LP [Sokol Keep]
• US Dark Ambient /Fantasy Dungeon Synth project Lone Sentinel “Gazing Upon the Funeral Moon from Atop Cemetery Spires” from “Bathed in Ancient Twilight” LP [Enchanted Silver Records]
• Raleigh, North Carolina doom metal /fantasy-ambient /prog rock /dungeon synth project Mahr G’Didj “Power Fantasy” from “Power Fantasy” EP