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

• Swedish minimal synth wave /synthpop duo Joakim Karlsson & Mai Nestor from Göteborg, FACIT “Var tog du vägen?” from the new 2-track single “Var tog du vägen? / Androgyn ungdom”
  

After two fascinating EPs between 2013 and 2016 on Citirax and Waving Hands, mostly interspersed with ambient, experimental sparse works, the duo from Goteborg return with their seemingly frigid, yet subtly warm, atmospheric analog minimal wave sound, cloaked in a magical aura of deep Nordic melancholy. The new single unfolds contemplative, ghostly synthpop elegies, subtly suffused by an obscure pathos, cast in haunted melancholic vocals to draw tragic angsty moods from sad crushed and sinister gleamy synth melodies, bleak pulsing bass lines, and hypnotic beats, whilst lonely secret cries and nervous humming echoes layer hidden pain into a vexing sea of pensive uncertainty.

• Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /post-punk band LIVINROOM “Disaster” from “Way for the sun” EP
  

New single for the Saint Petersburg band with a poignant and brooding approach to the 80s UK-inspired post-punk, driven by steady punchy drum beats, ominous rambling bass vibrations, and hypnotic pain-filled guitar strains that shred and chime aching memories through a harsh forlorn tapestry of obsession and doom whilst a tormented soul’s desperate haunted baritone broods deliver a sinister dark poetic confession about hellish deceptions

• Los Angeles‘ darkwave /synth-wave project Amor de Paris “Devil Eyes” single
  

Minimal, stark and moody, Boy Harsher inspired dark synth-wave from the L.A. based act, although favouring introspective and brooding tones. Steady punchy beats, chugging bassline, and tinkling synth chords pulse sinister deceptive moods around an intriguing vocal interplay betwixt cold, lost, solo aching fears and dual distorted blurry frequencies to extend eerie surreal moods from a dark lyrical confession into dreaded memories of bewitching fright.