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

• Colorado‘s goth-rock /synthpop /post-punk /darkwave project Autumn Sonnet “Apparition” second single
  

Goth-club-ready Synth-laden Darkwave cut from Colorado one-man band that builds cold hypnotic anticipation through the visceral and sullen dancing drive fueled by pounding snares and ominous droning bassline throbs, shrouded by sparkling icy bright melancholic synth swathes, whilst dramatic, alluring, and angsty vocals deliver a ghostly poetic devotion toward a lovely nocturnal “Apparition.”

• Parisian shoegaze /coldwave /new wave /post-punk solo project of multi-instrumentalist composer Anton Guillou, aka GARDEN DYNAMICS “Proklinat” from the upcoming album “Volna”
  

Spectral, atmospheric, yet subtly tense New Wave /Post-punk from the Parisian producer, lead by urgent motorik rhythms, while warm punctuated bass pulses, echoing gleaming guitar brilliance and icy airy synth whirls create a bleak, hypnotic and enveloping vibrancy around cold shivering anxious vocals, coalescing haunted breathless fear with secretly scared whispers, to invoke dire desperate dread from a sinister supernatural realm of dark energies cast in ancient “Proklinat” of unseen deception. While missing the resonant poignant melodrama of the Russian counterparts as stated in the notes, Garden Dynamics could be associated with the mid-80s introspective post-punk bands from Midnight Music or Independent Project catalogue.

• Bern, Switzerland industrial /post-punk /minimal synth wave collective PLAGUE PITS “An Atlas of Human Suffering” from the new “Exterminator” EP
  

Brand new compelling 3-tracker EP from the Swiss collective that entirely delves into eerie, grim and dystopic electro-industrial wastelands inspired by Cabaret Voltaire, SPK or Skinny Puppy’s heavy and resonant percussive edge. Mechanical, rattling and vibrant rhythmic patterns, menacingly fueled by undulating EBM-strewn bass vibrations, bounce and roll over one another, surrounded by icy alienating synth flows, to build a toxic undertow of relentless pent-up tension underneath strategical obsessive vocal samples, layering of grunting moans, unrelenting authoritarian oppressions, quirky robotic echoes, and drugged aghast observations to depict “an atlas of human suffering.”