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

• Munich, Germany NDW /EBM /techno/dark wave /synth pop band Rue Oberkampf “Deine Augen” ltd. cassette-single 
  

After around a year’s break, the Bavarian act, which completely astonished our Mike not long ago in Athens, returns with equally highly danceable and poignant Kraftwerk-tinged romance, that spins on rattling beats along with ceaseless rolling and chugging elliptic low ends, topped by glaring dramatic synth swirls, to drive heartache and obsession over sad penetrating persistent vocals, pleading to be with another one more time.

• Los Angeles-based electro /dark wave /synthwave artist Vick Vapors “And Now You’re Gone” single
  

Moody emotional-ridden synth-driven atmospheric tune from the murky Inland Empire, that ceaselessly bounces on a vibrant bed of tight urgent beats and chugging bass loops on which lie quivering ephemeral melancholic melodies of longing and pain around soft wistful vocals, lost in an aimless aftermath from the loss of a loved one.

• Rennes-based EBM /new wave /post-punk /electronic musician Gwladys Orbs, aka CARRIEGOSS “Musaraigne” single
  

Brand new single for Rennes‘ minimal Darkwave artist constructs dark, cold and nervous throbbings of relentless menacing lashing beats, DAF-like oscillating thick bass sequences, piercing synth squeals and eerily haunting vocal echoes, to sway around aloof yet urgent spoken words, casting danger with a bewitching spell.

• France ambient /dark fantasy dungeon synth act ERANG “Despair (with Silù de Mordomoire)” from the album “The Kingdom is Ours”
  
• Swedish synth-pop duo of Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Hutchinson Berg, aka KITE “Glassy Eyes (Harlem Electronics Remix)” [Dais]
• German indie-wave solo project A TRANSITION “Home Alone” from “Home Alone” (EP)
  
• Californian darkwave electronic artist Fornicata “Break This World”
  
• Russian darkwave trio Pavel Shelekhov (Les Morts), Pavel Zolin (Purple Fog Side), and Mikhail Sokolov (Pegasus Asteroid, Stillife), aka Atmostatic – “She Dies Every Night” single via SkyQode
  
• Italian occult /coldwave /darkwave duo, iamnoone “third, fourth and fifth” single from upcoming LP [Cold Transmission Music]
• San Diego-based, Mexican lo-fi /post-punk /deathwave solo project, Vestron Vulture “TH1RT33N GH0STS” single
  
• Portuguese Goth/Post Punk/Darkwave band from Lisbon, SHE PLEASURES HERSELF “Last Goodbye” single
  
• Mexico City-based post-punk /gothic rock /darkwave band led by Carlos and Ernesto Carapi, aka Schrödinger “Depths of Misery” single [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Mysterious lo-fi post-punk /coldwave act Cold Wings “Geometric Collision” from the first album “No dance, No party”
  
• German experimental /doom /coldwave /minimal synth solo act Projekt Ortsschild “W​ä​nde” from “Unmut” EP
  
• Athens, Greece experimental /new wave /minimal wave DIY duo Lampros & Fani, aka Savoya/Σαβοΐα  “Ε​ί​μ​α​σ​τ​ε η Σ​α​β​ο​ΐ​α” from “Savoya II” EP
  
• Udine, Italy lo-fi minimal synth solo act digitalbath “pyongyang” single
  
• Nottingham, UK coldwave duo LIIGHT “Waiting” single
  
• Barcelona-based Italo–Spanish post-industrial /post-punk /minimal synth duo DAME AREA “Tú me hiciste creer” from the upcoming album “Toda la verdad sobre” via humo internacional and Mannequin Records
  
• Zagreb, Croatia experimental electronic music collective and label between many like-minded artists (Ivona Ivkovic, Marijan Katic, Nikola Kos, Luka Kurjan, Goran Lautar, Jasmin Mahmic, Dominik Sesek, and Paul Genetik), Lab Personnel “ I Was Sent To Destroy” from the cassette album “BREAK APART” improvisation session in Zagreb at Surogat Club, December 2023 [SONS OF TRADERS RECORDS]
• Melbourne-based Post-Punk /New Wave /Electronic duo Roles “Stuff” single
  
• L.A.-based dark synthpop project led by musician Wesley Eisold, Cold Cave “Hourglass” off the upcoming fourth studio album “Passion Depression” via Heartworm Press
  
• Colombian electroclash /post-punk /synth wave /darkwave /dark electronic solo project based in Bogotà, Noromakina “DieWithYou” off upcoming LP “Imsomnia” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Guadalajara-based, Mexican Dark Electro-Wave duo RedIndustrie “Past Masters (Corlyx Remix)” from “Past Masters” EP via PurZynth Rekords
  
• Northampton, Massachusetts dark electronic dance music duo Boy Harsher “Machina (Ft. Ms. BOAN – Mariana Salda​ñ​a) [Soft Crash Remix]” from “Machina” EP via Nude Club Records
  
• Wilmington, NC goth /darkwave /synthwave duo NIGHT RIVALS “Berlin (Dead Cool Remix)”
  
• San Diego, Californian synthwave /synthpop duo, GLASS SPELLS “Venom” from the album “Crystals”
  
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop duo Vioflesh “Always” single via darkTunes
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany early ’80s art-synth auteurs led by Ralf Dörper and Michael Mertens with the new singer Thunder Bae, aka Propaganda “They Call Me Nocebo feat. Thunder Bae” from the upcoming third S/T album via Bureau B
  
• Los Angeles-based new wave /synthpop /post-punk duo, Sacred Skin “Too Hard To Find” from upcoming LP “Born In Fire” via Artoffact Records
  
• Dallas, TX synth-pop /dark electronic alternative band of twin brother producers Myles and Kyle Mendes, aka Nite “Our Light Will Never Die” 2-track single
  
• Danish industrial synthpop solo project, ee:man “Slow Dream feat. Joel Alexander of Eckotrigger” single
  
• Swedish electro /synth-pop duo of Chris Leaf and Pete Branch, aka Vintage Voltage “Remain The Same” via Progress Productions
  
• Goth /Post-punk /New Wave tape machine punk duo from Berlin, TWIN NOIR “Durchdrehen” (Single)
  
• Athens-based electronic/dark pop /synth-pop duo of RΠЯ and Jessica Bell, aka Keep Shelly in Athens “You’ll be Leaving” new single
  
• Montreal dreampop /new wave /synth pop experimental trio Dawn To Dawn “Yours To Know” single
  
• Paris-based indie dance /disco /synth-pop project of Sergio Mesa (IAMNOTAROBOT) and David Jornet (Strange2, AMPbEND, Des Âmes LIbres) along with vocalist Maia J., aka Hypnotique “Imagine Alors” single [Kosmorama Disco]
• Nashville, Tennessee coldwave /synthpop solo act General Trust – “Hearses” from the single “Hearses / A Season of Wrath” via yk records
  
• London-based electro-punk-synthpop-industrial-experimental-disco-noise act Mechanical Cabaret “Mary On A Cross” single
  
• Los Angeles-based dark electro modular synth wave one-man band A Million Machines “Stray” single
  
• Los Angeles-based electronic-rock project of composer-producer Brandon Smith, aka The Anix “XRAY” single
  
• Madrid-based darkwave /post-punk duo founded in Los Angeles, EDGES “Tragic” single
  
• Santiago, Chile based Coldwave /Post-punk solo project of enigmatic Spanish musician and composer Fran H, Ingreso Cadáver “Cenizas” from “Monumento al fracaso” EP
  
• Russia gothic rock /darkwave /synth rock band (formerly Phantoccini), The Ecstatic Spells “Insomania” single on ScentAir
  
• Philadelphia, PN post-punk /dark wave alternative music project by musician Brian Beethoven, aka The Ginger Twins “A Passive Approach” single
  
• Bakersfield, CA deathrock band formed in 1982, Burning Image “Damnation” from the new LP “Follow The Fallout”
  
• Lenoir, North Carolina goth rock /post-punk band EarthaEye “The Golden” from “To The Deep” EP
  
• Original UK Post Punk drum machine band from Leeds formed in 1981, The March Violets “Crocodile Teeth” from the new album “Crocodile Promises” via Metropolis Records
  
• Berlin-based gothic rock /post-punk solo project of former member of Brazilian band The Knutz since 2007, Daniel Knutz – “Cemetery of the broken dreams” single
  
• Málaga, Spain dark wave /post-punk project Planta Décima “Existencia” from “La fragilidad de los sue​ñ​os” EP
  
• Polish New Wave /Postpunk band from Poznań, Yakutian Cult “Saint Vitus Dance” single
  
• Oakland, CA wave /post-punk band Grey Causeway “Lost Squadron” from the debut EP “Unsettled Weather” via MOUTH Magazine /// Records
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “Д​е​п​р​и​в​а​ц​и​я” off the new EP “Д​е​п​р​и​в​а​ц​и​я”
  
• Vienna, Austria shoegaze /wave /darkwave /post-punk solo project Panik Deluxe “Twigs” single
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah enigmatic dark wave /post-punk solo project BALDUVIAN BEARS “Où est la rédemption?” single via darkTunes
  
• Louisville, Kentucky post-punk /darkwave duo Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, aka Who Saw Her Die? “Familiar” single
  
• St. Petersburg‘s deathrock band, Deathhawk – “Р​е​к​в​и​е​м” single
  
• Lyon, France deathrock goth rock /post-punk project led by Jay Poisön, aka Jupiter Kirk “Ghost” from the 2-track single “Ghosts In Cognition” included in the upcoming album via Luchal Final records
  
• Leipzig, Germany wave /post-punk band Mantarochen “Umkreis” single
  
• Ghent, Belgium post-punk band The Rats – “Disco To Disco” second single & title track of the upcoming EP
  
• New York City‘s industrial /psychedelic /shoegaze /noise rock /post-punk band A Place to Bury Strangers “Disgust” from upcoming new LP “Synthesizer” via Dedstrange
  
• Los Angeles based post-punk /punk band Pirouette “Overpass” from the debut S/T EP
  
• Berlin‘s punk rock trio Eastie Ro!s “Menschen aus Glas” from the new album “The EASTIE RO​!​S” via Tomatenplatten
  
• Perth/Melbourne egg /garage /synth-punk band (members of Ghoulies, Aborted Tortoise, Pleasants, Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice, Kosmetika), Kitchen People “Mousetrap” from cassette “EP ’24” via Cow Tool Records (AU) & MAGÜT records (EU)
  
• Italian metal /D.I.Y. fantasy synth act Hjartans “Pilgrim” from the album “Polyphony”
  
• German dark ambient /synthwave /fantasy /dungeon synth duo Gilgareth “Klinge des Schicksals (Single Version)” from “Klinge des Schicksals” [EP]
• France ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Sylfvr “Vapour” from “Soul Vapour” EP
  
• Ottawa, Ontario ambient /whimsical comfy nature dungeon synth act Shire Oak “The Thames”