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

• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synth-pop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Velvet” single from the forthcoming LP “Dark Bellow” [darkTunes]

In the wake of a consistent level of songwriting and production quality, the new darkwave single from the Chilean duo reveals one of the most romantic and nostalgic moments from the next album, which bounces on marching punchy beats, droning low ends and swirly agonizing shiny synth motifs, surrounding airy layers of wistful yet elated female vocals, achingly longing for a connection that survives, and defies, time and space.

• Gothenburg, Sweden goth /synth-pop /minimal synth solo project Angels In Shade “Inertia” single
  

Fresh from the buzzing and distorted album “II”, the Swedish act’s new single, at the opposite end, unfolds over languid and terse, subtly anxious, hazy minimal synth inflections, built in restrained contrasts and subdued sound construction, amidst skeletal drum machines, and pulsing melancholic synths drawing nostalgic, shadowy electronic textures around haunted, spectral baritones, revealing the secret, “I’m not here”, before disappearing

• Miami, FL post-punk /synth rock act originally from Puerto Rico, Lust Era “ Neón Artificial” single
  

Second single of the year from the Miami-based group with their straightforward, infectious Latino post-punk that unleashes a spirited, pulsating interweaving of urgent beats and humming bass lines with achingly resonant, wiry guitars, bursting with searing, jarring distortion, around choppy, pain-filled male spoken words, anxiously suffering, and fearfully going insane, under the seduction and hypnosis of ghostly shadows and traumatic secrets.

• Scottish goth /ethereal /dark wave /electronic duo based in Glasgow, Witch Of The Vale (with Melanie Safka) “All The Pretty Little Horses” (traditional) first single from a new upcoming posthumous album of duets from the deceased US folk artist Melanie, “Friends and Co.” [Cleopatra Records]
• Berlin-based experimental acoustic /dance punk /post-punk duo Lise Sutter of Leipzig‘s Maraudeur and Ronni What of Baton Rouge‘s Marances, Team Work “Piper Has a Flashlight” from their upcoming debut album, “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” [Feel It / Subsidized Time]
• San Diego, CA-based post-punk /darkwave project TWIN ION ENGINE “Sober Thoughts” off 2-track single “Sober Thoughts/Pedicure”
  
• Colombia goth /post-punk duo Das Kelzer “Vaho silente” single [Nevel Records]
• Los Angeles post-punk /darkwave project The XRAY5 “Shadows Still Remain” single [Darkwave Records]
• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK post-punk /darkwave duo Vampire Valentine “Cutting Ties” single [Morella records]
• Florida‘s Post-punk /Darkwave /Goth project Last Grasp “Done When I’m Dead” from the upcoming 2nd album “Realest Undead”
  
• Italian Gothic Rock /Dark Wave / New Wave band Christine Plays Viola “At Last, I Found You (Fear Increases Violent Emotions)” unreleased epilogue to last January’s “Fear Increases Violent Emotions” LP
  
• Italian industrial /synth-pop /darkwave trio from Rome, This Eternal Decay “Breathe in Silence (DARKWAYS REMIX)”
  
• Italian goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Synthetic Mushdrum “A New Life” single
  
• Enigmatic US Post Punk / Coldwave solo project KNOWNPLEASURES “Absolute” single
  
• Berlin-based EBM /post-punk /darkgaze solo project of Alexander Leonard Donat, aka Vlimmer “Atemdauer” from “Atemdauer b/w Caring Is Creepy” single [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
• French atmospheric New Wave /Coldwave project of Orson Wald, aka VILLA VIDE “The sea, the secret II – Dub techno remix”
  
• Rotterdam-based industrial /minimal synth / post-punk darkwave duo Halfmachine “Signal Break” single
  
• Sweden post-punk /electronic /minimal synth trio Monoton tid “Mellan en och fyra väggar” from the upcoming cassette album “monoton tid” [BLCK FLWRS records]
• London-based post-punk /synth wave band led by Nathalia Bruno (Leave The Planet, Phosphor, Index For Working Musik), DRIFT. – “Rough Rider” first single from the new EP “Violence For Your Furs” [God Unknown Records]
• South African cinematic /synthwave /electronic /darkwave project Hunter As A Horse “Kiss of Death” from “Paradise Lost” LP [Metropolis Records]
• Berlin-based goth /cinematic /dark electronic /synth wave /darkwave duo NNHMN “Mannequin” from the upcoming EP “Opera of Lust and the Art of Sorrow II” [K-DREAMS RECORDS]
• Northampton, Massachusetts dark electro /synth-pop /coldwave duo Boy Harsher “Hard Beat” from the upcoming LP “GET MEAN” [Nude Club Records]                                                                                                                                               
• San Francisco, CA-based goth /EBM /dark ritual /electro /industrial /darkwave artist Lynette Cerezo, aka Bestial Mouths “Conjure” 1st single from the upcoming LP “DEAD LINES (Lineas Muertes)” [Negative Gain]
• Chicago coldwave /darkwave side project of Black Light Smoke, With Shadows “Heart Of Glass (Original Mix)” from “Heart Of Glass” EP [Ancient Spells]
• Hungarian EBM /hard-beat techno /post-punk duo POST ANALOG DISORDER “Lost In The Cold” from “Burning The Edges” EP 12″ [Oráculo Records]
• Portland, OR EBM /synth-pop /synth-punk /new wave duo Odor Eater “Ishmael” from the third album, “But For Who?” [Feel It Records]
• Los Angeles industrial /new wave /electronic /synth-punk band SOME EMBER “Dead… but In Office” single
  
• Rochester, UK coldwave /synth-pop /minimal synth duo Brutalist Architecture in the Sun “Monster” from “The Beauty in Broken” EP
  
• Berlin-based new wave /darkwave synth-pop band MTTM “Lovesong” (The Cure cover)
  
• São Paulo, Brazil dark wave /post-punk solo project Nyui rocha ゆいロック “você não me olha” (single)
  
• Montreal, Québec noise pop /shoegaze /post-punk band BLUE NUIT “ Échos” single
  
• Oslo, Norway-based Post-Punk /Dream-Gaze /Psych-Noir band Mayflower Madame “Every Hazy Morning (bonus track)” from the third 2024 album “Insight (Deluxe Version)”
  
• Liverpool, UK based Indie Rock /Dream Pop /Post-Punk duo So, Reverie “Sea Change” from “All You See In Dreams” (EP)
  
• Bristol, UK alt-rock /post-punk /punk band MOULD “Float” from “Hoping as a Coping Mechanism” [5dB Records]
• Phoenix, AZ Hispanic darkwave /post-punk band Post Crucifixion “Echoes” single
  
• Chicago blackened dark-wave band Bleached Cross “Blood Moon” off the new album, “Wrath” [New Morality Zine]
• Turku, Finland gothic rock /post-punk band Agnosia “Ruumis ja Mieli” from the EP “Hautajaiset”
  
• Athens, GA deathrock/ post-punk project Tears for ʇhe Dying “World’s End” (single)
  
• Minneapolis, Minnesota rock’n’roll /punk four-piece Constant Insult “Dead Cat” from “Demo IV” EP
         
• Providence, Rhode Island egg punk /rock’n’roll /garage rock outfit Baby Muffler “Lot Lizzard” from “Birthday” EP [Ink Spot Records]
• Franco-German egg punk /synth-punk trio Apéro “The Rent Is Too High (And I’m Too Fucking Sober)” from “Dragons & Eels” EP [RilRec – Das Label]
• Croatian dark ambient /drone /industrial /field recordings /ritual electronic project started in 1987, TeHÔM “Modality Of Cosmic Matter (Phelios remix)” from “Lacrimae Mundi Remixed” LP [Dark Odyssey Records]
• UK fantasy dungeon synth artists LANDSRAAD “Kitab Al-Ibar” from the cassette edition of the split album “Codex of Sand” by L A N D S R A A D / Psychic Hood [Realm and Ritual]
• Scotland dark ambient /medieval /fantasy /dungeon synth project Skyhammer “The Windrider” from “Medieval Tales II” LP
  
• Marlborough, Massachusetts dark ambient /atmospheric rock /dungeon synth project Dahliad “A Bard With No Voice” from “A Fool’s Errand” LP [Ret Con Industries]
• Saint Paul, Minnesota forest ambient /dungeon synth project Tree Gardener “Chyldryn of the Valley” from “What We Sow” LP