Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips #28
Peaks Of The Week:
- Darkwave /post-punk/minimal synth/coldwave solo project of Houston based drummer Bruce Courtney, THE STAVE CHURCH “Not Quite Right – Trip the Light mix” [First Year Anniversary Remix]
Here’s this week’s dark disco filler, Houston‘s musician transforms his darkwave original debut (TOTW a year ago) into a trippy and hypnotic dance-inducing thumper with mechanical rhythms, pulsing bassline, brooding synth will trasport your imagination on Goa’s sunset dancing to a trancey remix of Depeche Mode.
- Orlando, FL coldwave/synth post-punk project of Darren Robert Earl Crittenden, aka Alien Witch “The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” from the new EP “Between Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”
From the new EP of Orlando‘s solo artist stands out one of the most immersive and powerful, mysterious and haunting, dark post-punk ballads we’ve heard in recent times.
- Australian no wave/synth-punk/post-punk band from Melbourne, EXEK “Unetiquetted” from the forthcoming third album “Some Beautiful Species Left” out September 6th on SDZ (Europe), Digital Regress (USA), and Anti Fade (Aus).
Melbourne‘s avant post-punkers are back with the first fruit from heady DIY studio experiments in an array of hypnotic dub-like beats, obsessive kraut rhythms, glacial eerie synths, whirring guitars, serpentine basslines, evocative sax over detached vocals, to create ecstatic yet disturbing lush spirals of paranoia and alienation peppered with the left-field pop sensibilities of Magazine and Wire.
- Mexican darkwave/minimal synth/post-punk project REPENT “Ceremonia” from the album “Dios está observando” on Stupid Decisions
- Nijmegen, Netherlands based, English singer/songwriter/musician and The Legendary Pink Dots mastermind, Edward Ka Spel “The View From Over There” from the new album “The Moon Cracked Over Albion”
- Brussels based synth-punk band CRY “Fire Me” from upcoming 4-track debut EP 7″ on Danger Records
- Brussels, Belgium via Vancouver based Italian-born post-punk/synth-punk artist Christophe Clébard “Le souvenir de tes mains” from upcoming September album release “HONTE” on les albums Claus | 1000 Balles | Kakakids records
- Manchester, UK dark electronic/synth-punk solo project HAL SOUR “Bored of my phone” from the new EP “Gone”
- Berlin‘s darkwave/synthwave / ‘wave triste’ project of former half of Monowelt, Marta Raya “The Paradox Of Life”
- Washington, D.C. Electronic/Darkwave/Post-Punk/synth-pop project nosuchname “Days.gone.by” from the new EP “aBySs.”
- California‘s goth/industrial/electronic/darkwave artist Fornicata “Falling”
- South Central Los Angeles DIY punk 4-piece Generacion Suicida “Nadie Se Escapa” preview from upcoming Generacion Suicida 2019 Australia Tour Tape via Lost in Fog Records
- Chicago‘s art-rock/noise-rock/post-punk four-piece Ganser “Bad Form” new single
- Cherepovets, Russia lo-fi/noise-rock/post-punk band Капитан Ненавидит Море [Kapitan Nenavidit More] ‘Волны’ new single
- Glasgow, Scotland indie /new wave 5-piece WALT DISCO “Past Tense” from new single “Strange To Know Nothing bw Past Tense” via L. A. based singles label IHC 1NFINTY
- Sacramento‘s synth post-punk band featuring former members of NMBRSTTN (Number Station), CREUX LIES “Made” new single on Cleopatra Records.
- Oakland‘s dark ethereal goth post-punk duo SILENT IN THE SNOW “Crystal Spear” from the sophomore album “Levitation Chamber” on Prophecy Productions
- Pachuca, Mexico anarcho punk/darkwave/post-punk band KRIUF “Trinchera” from debut 3-track “Constitution (DEMO)”
- Ottawa, Ontario punk band ZEX “Firepower” from the vinyl album “Execute” on Plastic Bomb Records, Common People Records and Maniac Attack Records!
- Houston, TX industrial/electronic/synthpop/darkwave solo project of James Reyna, aka MELODYWHORE “the after-dark” from the album “Darklight”
- Toronto‘s industrial synthpop project of Robert Alfons aka TR/ST “Iris” from the upcoming album “The Destroyer – 2” on House Arrest Distribution
- Inter-Western European new-wave/punk/minimal wave/neo-folk/krautrock/electronic collaboration between Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia, aka Jean-Luc – “Holliday” from the debut EP “Des litres d’essence” on Knekelhuis
- German dark synth-pop project of Dirk Vollmer, aka Zwischenspiel – “Blessed” from the forthcoming album “Generating New Life”
- Los Angeles based electronic/synthpop/synthwave musician/producer John Glenn Kunkel aka THE NEW DIVISION “Tonight” from the upcoming new EP “Modus”
- Los Angeles-based post-punk/coldwave/synth-pop project by Chris Stewart, Black Marble “One Eye Open” from the forthcoming third album “Bigger Than Life” on Sacred Bones
- South London‘s dub/post-punk/psych-punk outfit MEATRAFFLE ”The Day the Earth Stood Still” from Meatraffle new album “Bastard Music” out on August 30th, 2019 on Delayed Records.
- Portland, OR dub post punk/punk band COOL FLOWERS “Cracked Wrapper” from the new album “Cool Flowers Album”
- Santiago, Chile new wave/post-punk 4-piece SOONE “We Are Fire” from debut S/T EP
- French post-punk/dark electronics/coldwave solo project of Michaël Baska from Lyon, One Figure ”No Reason” (lyrics inspired by the words of Ian Curtis)
- Rome, Italy shoegaze/darkwave trio 3+Dead “Snake of June” from S/T debut EP
- Bloomington, Indiana post-punk/deathrock trio SWAN WASH “Yard” from S/T 7-track cassette on Sister Cylinder
- Encinitas, California goth/post-punk/new wave solo project VALUEMART “Ivory” new single
- Albuquerque, New Mexico goth/coldwave/darkwave one-man-band THE ENDLESS “Feel The Heat”
- Chico, CA lo-fi/no wave/post-punk duo BEEHIVE “When Can I See You Again?” from the upcoming debut 10″ EP “Depressed & Distressed”
- German electro/synthpop project of Harry Haller from Essen, FOKKER “Interiors And Landscapes”
- Hong Kong, based noir synth-pop project of Swedish musician Johan Hansson, We The North feat Vita Arkivet “Kall”
- Seattle minimal synthpop/darkwave solo project PROFIT PRISON “Quarantine” from new cassette EP “Cost of Living” via Heavy Days
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England dark electronic three-piece MAUSOLEUMS “Rapture of the Beast” new 2-track single on Kaneda Records.
- Tempe, Arizona, dark synth-pop duo of brothers Alex and Andrew Jarson (Ascetic House collective co-founders), Body of Light “Time To Kill” from Body of Light’s third album “Time To Kill” on Dais Records.
- Vilnius, Lithuania noise rock/shoegaze/post-punk band Pindrops “Reflection II” off of upcoming V/A “SŪPYNĖS 13” tape compilation for the 13th edition of Lithuania‘s Sūpynės Festival.
- UK psychedelic post-punk band from London, Butterflies on Pins “Still Life’s for Living” new single
- Indonesian Goth/Post-Punk band PULLO “Around the Bed” from new EP “A Dark Belief”
- Modesto, CA DIY goth/darkwave/shoegaze/post-punk 4-piece ERROR TREES ’11’ from the sophomore LP ‘II’
- Astrakhan, Russia post rock/synth-pop/new wave/post-punk 3-piece Вевил / Vevil ‘Последняя дискотека’ new single
- Brooklyn, New York post-punk trio B Boys // “Another Anthem” from the sophomore album “Dudu” out now via Captured Tracks
- Lorient, France punk/synth-punk solo project CUIR “Trou Noir” from 3-track debut EP “Single Single”
- Portland‘s fuzzy post-punk trio fronted by Summer Cannibals‘ Jenny Logan, DEATHLIST “Leave me alone” (New Order cover) from the upcoming 4th cassette album “Loved”
- London, UK minimalistic post-punk quartet DRY CLEANING “Magic of Meghan” from the upcoming debut EP “Sweet Princess” out August 16 via It’s OK Label.
- Brighton, UK post-punk/gothic rock band THE LAST CRY “Years” new single
- Swiss dark synth/darkwave/synth-pop solo project from St.Gallen, Carlo Onda “Shout” from the new album “Geister” on COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC
- Philadelphia goth/dark synth/post-punk/darkwave solo project of Tristan Victor, aka KISS OF THE WHIP “Set Yourself Aside” new single
- Brooklyn, NY dark minimal synth duo Spatial Relation “Singularity” from V/A 3 “CRIME OF VIOLENCE” compilation on Voltage Tension
- Melbourne, Australia coldwave/synthpop/dark electronic producer Andrew Dun, aka ONTIC “The Movement of Light” title-track from the brand new debut album
- 80s Dutch DIY experimental electronic music underground artist (Y create, Gorgonzola Legs, Portable Vaudeville) and cassette-label, studio and archive EXART co-founder, Hessel Veldman “Boezem Ballet” (1984) from “Boezem Ballet / In IJle Lucht” archival split single with Enno Velthuys via STROOM.tv
- Perth, Australia DIY new wave/synth-pop artist POOL BOY “Sucker Punch” from “Prom Songs” EP
- Swiss post doomers E-L-R “Glancing Limbs” from debut full-length “Mænad” on Prophecy