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

• Mexico City darkwave /post-punk solo project Shadows from Tape “Perdida” debut single
  

Impeccable cold and edgy minimalist Darkwave from Mexican newcomer one-man band, which hypnotically pounds over chilly cinematic darkness, taut, stark and dramatic, through a steady hard-hitting drum machine, swirling sharp glaring synth riffs and eerie twinkling spirals to heighten the chilly ominous darkness engulfed by dry haunted vocals, brooding in the deep regret and shame of a toxic relationship gone too far.

• Electronic /minimal /cold wave /darkwave duo Phytavian Phantoms “Sempiternal Wasteland” from the debut single “Sempiternal Wasteland / The Ice”
  

Another debut, extremely more depressing and dismal, for an enigmatic duo that at first glance might appear like a Dungeon Synth act, a comparison that both for the artwork, the haunting mournful synth tones, the arcane occult Latin words, and the eternal dead-end wasteland suggested, could also suit, if it weren’t for undulating droning and murky bass lines and steady reluctant beats, sadly overwhelming deep brooding vocal pain with bleak isolating frequencies, whilst a brief interlude of warm urgent meanderings give fleeting hope.

• Belgian darkwave /post-punk /gothic rock duo Jonathan Verstrepen & Anton Mergaerts, aka Velvet Mist “Valley Of Dreams” the first single of the upcoming debut full album
  

A gothic rock ride with a lugubrious spectral charm, stirred by dramatic and haunted ceremonial reedy keyboards, urging stacked marching rhythms, rumbling basslines, churning abrasive riffs, and dire bleeding piercing guitar obsessions, to uplift intense romantic vocals, longing and aching in shadowy reflections for a dance in “The Valley of Dreams.”

• Italian dark ambient /ritual /drone /noise /experimental /death industrial project by Alice Kundalini, aka She Spread Sorrow “She Didn’t Care” from the vinyl 12″ album “Orchid Seeds” (originally released in 2019 as part of an instantly out print 10 cassette box set compilation) [helen scarsdale]                                 
• Chicago dark dream pop /goth pop solo artist Born Days “My Little Dark” title track the upcoming debut LP “My Little Dark”
  
• Boston, MA ethereal /goth /darkwave multi-instrumentalist, musician, songwriter & producer Allie Frost “Deadly Desert” from the cassette EP “Deadly Desert” on InClub Records
  
• France analogue /electronic /synth wave project of Freddy Vautier aka Anatole Seamus – “Home Trainer” from the upcoming V/A “ERR REC Library Vol.4″ cassette/vinyl 12” album [ERR REC]
• Mexico City-based minimal analog synth project of Rogelio Serrano, aka Equinoxious “Axis” off “Axis” EP
  
• Toronto, Ontario coldwave /synth wave /minimal synth musician Ethan Harman aka ALAN HARMAN “Sinking City” off the second installment “Field Report no.2” EP
  
• Iranian born minimal synth solo female electronic project of Tushna Pirrongelli based in Miami, Nina Belief  “Heart Pinched ft. Geert Coppens” from “Faceless 50 – “In Memory Of” EP recorded around the 2010s in collaboration with Geert Coppens of Twilight Ritual                                                                               
• Dutch cosmic electro /synth-wave /’Neue-Niederländische-Welle’ duo from Utrecht, STAATSEINDE “Aurora Borealis” (2-tracker originally released as a very limited 10″ on Etch Wear)
  
• Edmonton, Alberta-based Dark Electro-Wave /Synthpop one-man project, Markus Midnight “Rhythm of Our Work” from the second LP “Night Work”
  
• Costa Rica darkwave /dark synth-pop artist based in San Jose, Mavroskeleto – “Strange Sorrow” single
  
• Italian ’80s new wave /synth-pop project of Bologna‘s brothers Flavio and Valero Biagi, Massimo Chericoni and Valerio Tassinari, aka Effetto Joule “Last Mission” (1988) from the retrospective 4xCD+booklet compilation “890X” via SwissDarkNights Label
  
• French/Swedish electronic /coldwave /new beat /darkwave collaboration between French production duo Mathis Kolkoz () & Pablo Bozzi and Abu Nein‘s singer, LOST HIGHWAY & Erica Li Lundqvist “Hotel Room” title track of the “Hotel Room” EP 12″ on Oráculo Records
  
• San Antonio, TX Synthwave /Industrial /EBM act MVTANT “Mindshade (Multiple Man remix)” from the album “Low Culture Metal Bodies (remixes and covers)”
  
• Australia-based EBM /new beat /dark pop duo of Marc Dwyer (Buzz Kull) and Morgan Wright (Acopia), DSM-V “Flash Of Light” from the upcoming debut “Life Is Done” LP via Third Coming Records
  
• California-based industrial /electronic /darkwave project of musician Justin Chamberlain, AKA Soft Vein “Bloodletting” off upcoming debut LP “PRESSED IN GLASS” [Artoffact Records]
• Californian coldwave /post-punk /darkwave trio, FEARING “When Nights End (M!R!M Remix)” from “M!R!M vs Fearing” EP
  
• Spanish psych /wave /post-punk /indie dance producer-musician and vocalist, Syd dePalma “Cuerpo, Sombra y Espalda” from “Blanco Sombra” EP [Rotten City Records]
• Los Angeles-based new goth /coldwave /synth project of experimental electronic musician known as Døves, aka Torn Portrait “Ache” off 2-track “demos”
  
• Philadelphia, PA goth /post-punk /cold wave /minimal synth /darkwave /synthpop duo R E P < > L ^ K N T “So Cold” from the album “Fatalities”
  
• Lisbon, Portugal coldwave /darkwave /dark synth solo project of Pedro Morcego from Phantom Vision, AKA Liquid Land “Descent” new single
  
• Fayetteville, Arkansas new wave /synthpop /post-punk solo project, Damien Hearse “Fear” from the EP “HARD TO BE A GOD” 
  
• London-based glam goth/dark electronic /industrial pop duo, Dead Lights “Into The Night” from upcoming double LP “Glitterspit” on darkTunes
  
• New York-based dark synthpop duo The Mystic Underground ”The Backlash Comes (Maduro Remix)” single [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• International electronic pop trio Adam Collier (BlakLight, Beautiful Crisis), Marie Williamson (Agency-V, Numana State & AfterDark) & Brian Belknap (BlakLight, Mind Machine), AKA SilverScene “Dark Skies” second single 
  
• Austin, TX new wave /synth-pop trio Night Drive “White Lights” from “Position II” from the album “Position II” via Chicken Ranch Records
  
• Portland, OR lo-fi /electronic /synthpop solo project Kensoniq “Sounds” single
  
• Sydney, Australia based Electronic /Synthwave artist (Emerge), Daniel Hall “Loveless” single off the upcoming album “Navigate”
  
• Spanish electronic /synthpop act Lifelong Corporation “The End of the World” maxi single
  
• Atlanta, Georgia industrial /electronic body music /synthpop music producer and artist Phantasm – “The Dark Masquerade”
  
• Spanish dark wave /synth-pop trio Sex Code “Logarithm” single
  
• UK eclectic post-punk /darkwave project from Kendal, CLAUSTRAPHOBIA “We Are Frail” single
  
• Adelaide, Australia post-punk /coldwave /darkwave duo The Cold Field “Quiet on the Border” first single off the upcoming third album via Cold Transmission Music
  
• Malmö, Sweden darkwave /gothic /post-punk band fronted by Erica Li Lundqvist, aka Abu Nein “Kissing The Glove” off the upcoming second full-length album “II” [Progress Productions]
• Athens, Greece Electronic Dark /Synth Wave duo INCIRRINA “Careworn Face” from V/A “COLD GROOVES” compilation on Cold Transmission Music
  
• São José Dos Campos‎, Brazil post-punk /darkwave solo project Gótia “Temor” from “O Nosso Beijo Tem Gosto de Cerveja e Cigarro” EP
  
• Gelsenkirchen, Germany goth /electronic /darkwave solo artist, Die Tödin – “Angepasste Spießerschweine” single
  
• Sacramento, CA dark post-punk /gothic rock trio Ashes Fallen “Damn Me” off upcoming LP “Walk Through Fire”
  
• Mexican gothic /post-punk /deathwave band Epitafio y el Anima “Alma” from the CD/cassette EP “Epitafio y el Anima” [InClub Records]
• US goth /darkwave /post-punk act Burial Ground “Believe” from the LP “Embrace the Dark”
  
• Madrid, Spain synth-punk /cold wave /post-punk band The Noisy Requiem “Black Celebration” from the S/T 2-track single
  
• German post-punk /indiewave /postwave solo project, A Transition “Clarity feat. Jacky” off the EP “Side Effects”
  
• Naarm/Melbourne synth-punk /dark wave/post-punk duo Rain Dogs “More Than Desire” single
  
• South African piano doom /alternative rock /darkwave artist Charles East “Dead Beat Dance (featuring Marisca Rain)” [The Damned cover, 1985]
• San Francisco‘s indie rock /dreamwave /darkwave band Octavian Winters “Undertow” second single
  
• Madrid-based coldwave /new wave /darkwave /post-punk solo project Dunkenwald feat. Marco Fernández – “Ella (Tu Piel Morena)” [Viceversa cover]
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project Moonvampire “Bathory” single
  
• US dark wave /post-punk band La Tourmente “Girl In The Mortician Shirt” from “La Tourmente/Gloom Mouth” Split LP via Dark Entry Records
  
• US post-punk /new wave /darkwave act Pleasure Victim “Crossmaker” single
  
• Budapest, Hungary goth /cold wave /darkwave band Cold Contrast “Outland” second single
  
• Dark Wave /Post-Punk band founded and led by American–Peruvian composer, producer, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist Luis Mauricio Málaga Fuenzalida, aka JOAO “Everyday Starts” single
  
• One-man Goth /Dark Wave /Post-Punk project out of Germany, Another Abyss “Slow Motion Suicide” from “Wherever We End Up” LP
  
• Los Angeles-based Dark Wave /Post-punk Latino goth solo project DEATH BY NATURE “In All Fairness” from the LP “CUPIDS POISON”
  
• Santiago, Chile experimental goth rock /post-punk trio MALETAS VACIAS “DeSaLeNTaDoR2 first single from upcoming LP “BITACORA INCOGNITA”
  
• Berlin, Germany post-punk /dark indie rock band The Halo Trees “Flicker In The Dark” single
  
• Riverside, CA darkwave /new wave /post-punk solo project of Eddie a.k.a. LovelyEddie “Knife” single
  
• Arnhem, Netherlands mod /garage /post-punk /new-wave four-piece band The Moon “Hexed” new single
  
• Leipzig, Germany no wave /post-punk 4-piece ONYON “Alien Alien” from upcoming debut LP “Last Days On Earth” on Trouble In Mind
  
• Vienna, Austria goth post-punk /death pop trio (former members of Strange Dolls Cult and Squishy Squid), Death by Delirium “Tempest” from the 2-track single “Dog Days”                                                                      
• Sheffield, UK indie /post-punk trio Good News “Jam” from the 7″ EP “Same As That” on Bingo Records
  
• London, UK-based trans-European kraut /synth-pop /electronic /post-punk band, THE UMLAUTS “Dance & Go” from upcoming LP “Slags” on PRAH Recordings
  
• Szczecin, Poland experimental /acid /post-punk /psychedelic /synth-punk band MOTO “Budda z Lichenia” from cassette album “MOTOMOTOMOTO” via Syf Records
  
• Cincinnati, OH punk /post-punk 4-piece CORKER “Edge of Teeth” from the upcoming cassette album “Falser Truths” via Future Shock
  
• Athens, Greece dark wave duo Alexios Othon Theodoridis & Faye Charalampidou, aka YoU bEaSt YoU aCt “The Vast Shadow Of Privacy” off the third album “Vastness” via No Me Escucho Records
  
• London-based Anglo/French ambient pop /indietronica /new wave /post-punk trio of former Piano Magic Franck Alba & Glen Johnson (Textile Ranch, Future Conditional) along with drummer Robert Hervais-Adelman, Theory Of Ghosts “Porcelain” (EP2) from EP2 via Second Language Music
  
• Dutch lo-fi /ambient /folk /wave /experimental pop /spoken word duo of Noa Kurzweil (Supertalented) and Levi Lanser (Ludittes), aka VOICE ACTOR “SLUSH 77″ from the upcoming sophomore vinyl 12” album “Fake Sleep” [Stroom]
• Netherlands-based orchestral /neo-classical /gothic rock-pop project of songwriting partners Lisa Ann Swain and Drew Campbell, AKA Sleeps Under Beams “Adore” from the album “Valley of the Vignette”
  
• Sidney, Australia ambient /fantasy /comfy /dungeon synth DIY project LORESPINNER “The Hareguard Burrow Encampment” from the upcoming album “Hux Astil” [DIM CHAMBER]
• Hungary ambient /dungeon synth act HOVL “Rebirth: Harmony of Rising Ashes” from the album “Tales from Evergarden”
  
• Argentina based dark ambient /neo-folk /dungeon synth project Abstract Eon – “El Planeta Azul” from V/A “Battle Hymns: Triumphs in Transitions” compilation [Cave Dweller Music]