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

• Isle Of Man, UK Goth Synthpop /Post-punk band Mark E Moon “Fading” lead track of “Fading” EP [Cold Transmission Music]

The Mark Sayle and Phil Reynold led outfit’s new evocative single deals with eternal love, igniting rolling and buzzing bass lines, punctuated by metronomic beats, that incessantly waver and rumble, swept by ghostly, forlorn synth drifts, while heart-rending guitar slivers achingly tranfix devotional baritone vocals backed by somber fading shadows, brooding “we fade away” under the cleansing sunlight.

• New Jersey Post Punk /Goth Rock band DURL “Your Memory” off the Split Single with Fusea [chvrchbell records]

Moody, lush and obsessive romantic vampire vibes from NJ in a tear-stained confession wrought by gut-wrenching loneliness compels unremitting, urgent drums and grumbling bass lines layered with wailing, reverb-filled twinkling guitars, and spectral synth washes, to inject a bittersweet sparkling, melancholic edge against the empty shadows, encroaching over hoarse, heartbroken vocals painfully longing for a lost love.

• Los Angeles-based dark electronic duo Sleek Teeth “Gone (SIIE Remix)” from “Gone Remixes” EP
  

The very first track released in 2023 from Sleek Teeth gets 3 ace remix treatments: from the metal-plated martial and drilling EBM groove by Berlin‘s leather-wrapped hammer of XTR Human, the heavy-hitting peak-time rave hypnotism from Kris Baha, to close in style with the Hi-NRG chugging and buzzing relentless vibrancy of SIIE, combining pounding percussive kick throbs and uncanny radiant tension with frightened airless vocals gasping in panicked disbelief over losing themselves “from the inside out.”

• California lo-fi dark ambient /dungeon synth act Wood Archer “The Walk of Grief” from the LP “The Black Arrows of Twilight”
  
• French percussion-heavy fantasy /dungeon synth project Sylfvr “Sir Garland Seeks a Potential Rival” from “Inverted Forest” demo EP
  
• Paris-based goth /coldwave /darkwave /ethereal wave duo Rituel Encens “Close to touch” from the album “III”
  
• Hamburg-based Experimental/Postpunk/ Wave solo project by Anna Nin, Glaring “Devilerance” from the album “Inertia”
  
• German/French witch-house /dark pop music collaboration FLAWLESS ISSUES w/ Sad Madona “913” single
  
• Naarm/Melbourne noise-rock /bleak pop /minimalist post-punk trio Sudden Debt “7PM” from “Sudden Debt | NWAED015” LP [New Weird Australia]
• France cold wave /post-punk /minimal synth project Ponaka “Screen” from the debut “EP#1”
  
• Bern, Switzerland industrial /post-punk /synth wave collective PLAGUE PITS “Profiteers” (outtake from the “Escalator to the Abattoir” sessions)
  
• La Roche Blanche, France Dark IDM /Disco Morte /Surgical Electro Project by A// (Le Syndicat Electronique), CLINICAL ORDER – “Too Late!” from “Lullabies For Awakening” LP [injury rec.01]
• Swiss coldwave /minimal wave /synthpop duo Karl Kave & Durian “Mit Dir wieder allein” from the directors cut version of the 2021 second album “Untergang und Finsternis”
  
• Polish kraut /minimal wave /early electronics duo from Niebuszewo, Brenda i Funky “atlantyda” from the 7th album “tu atlantyda” [Mabui Music]
• Glasgow, UK post-punk /synth-pop /minimal wave DIY solo project of Ian Van Bass, aka Invisible Logic “Another City” from the s/t debut album “Invisible Logic”
  
• Scotland-based Cold Wave /New Wave /Synth-Pop artist Propter Hoc “Ulysses Returning Home” title track of “Ulysses Returning Home” EP [Cold Transmission Music]
• Sicily, Italy ’80s retro /new wave /darkwave /synthpop solo artist Alain Void “Roba da pecore (remixed)”
  
• Augsburg, Germany minimal electro /dark wave solo artist Adam Usi “Buried In The Dust” third single from upcoming LP “Void Exposure” [Young & Cold Records]
• Hamburg darkwave /post-punk /dreamgaze /synth wave act SEASURFER “Too Wild – 2025 Remaster”
  
• Los Angeles-based goth /post-punk /darkwave /synthwave project of musician and composer Guillermo Jaime, Vick Vapors “It Was Never For Me”
  
• Portland, OR EBM /industrial /electro /darkwave moniker of Conor Knowles, aka Dancing Plague “Veins” from the upcoming LP “Domains” [Artoffact Records]
• Southern Poland darkwave /dark electro /synth-wave duo STRIDULUM “ШРАМИ / SHRAMY (feat. Blood Tears After)” single
  
• UK based EBM /new beat /electro /rave /industrial /post-punk project of French musician/DJ and producer Jerome Tcherneyan and Czech performance artist and DJ, Barkosina Hanusova, aka Years Of Denial “We Are the Party” off of upcoming EP “Love Cuts” [VEYL]
• Sofia, Bulgaria drum & bass /breakbeat /techno /electro /synthwave music producer and composer, FILLE “Reach the Nucleus (Rico Casazza Remix)” from upcoming “Only Skies Stay Eternal Remixes” EP [Distant Gaze]
• Berlin-based gothic rock /post-punk solo project of former member of Brazilian band The Knutz since 2007, Daniel Knutz “No Grave Can Hold Us Down (86DFROMHELL Remix)” from the remix album “No Grave Can Hold Us Down (Remixes)”
  
• Bern, Switzerland dark electro /synth-pop duo CØLDSTAR “Last Dance (Club Mix)”
  
• Long Beach, CA electro industrial act Julien-K “Night Mover” single 
• Hamburg-based industrial /dark electro duo Rotersand “Father Ocean” from “Don’t Become The Thing You Hate” LP [Metropolis Records]
• US East Coast-based Dark Synth-Pop act Pleasure Victim “Blue Jean Tyranny” single
  
• Chicago-based Experimental /Dark Wave /Post-Punk transatlantic musical UK duo Lunar Paths feat. Killtoys – “Skeleton Key” from the collaborative EP “Exquisite Corpses”
  
• New York gothic rock /post-punk /dark wave solo act Some Days Are Darker “Devotion” single
  
• Veteran British Gothic Rock band formed in the ’80s by Porl King, Rosetta Stone “Dive Down Spiral” from the LP “Dose Makes The Poison” [Cleopatra Records]
• Enigmatic goth /post-punk /darkwave project Soviet Concrete “Fear City” single 
• Asheville, NC goth /darkwave /post-punk solo project, Athena Ignoramus “Blocked” from the LP “BODY\\WAVES”
  
• Recife, Brazil post-punk /darkwave band Tumulo dos vencidos “Vidas Efêmeras” from the debut LP “Dores do Mundo”
  
• Detroit industrial /goth /post-punk three-piece Ritual Howls “Follow The Sun” 1st single from upcoming sixth LP “Ruin” [Felte]
• Minsk, Belarusian darkwave /post-punk trio Dlina Volny “Now & Again” off the new album “In Between” [Italians Do It Better]
• Toulouse, France coldwave /post-punk duo Keyboards And Red Lipstick “Spider Web” from 2024 debut LP “CRUSH TV”
  
• Kyiv, Ukraine Post Punk /Cold Wave solo act DRKLV “Wasted” from “Memory is fading” EP
  
• Brussels, Belgium coldwave /shoegaze /post-punk band Rêves De Fièvre “Bloom” title track of the debut “EP “Bloom”
  
• Russian shoegaze /post punk band from Moscow, Джуна [Dzhuna] “Конец света” from the second LP “Мания”
  
• Vancouver, BC noise /post-punk trio Aversions “Empty Century” title track of the forthcoming LP “Empty Century”
  
• Melbourne, Australia-based goth /post-punk /darkwave music project created by RG Erwin, Victorian Darkwave “World Burns Down” single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /noise /darkwave /post-punk solo project The Spoiled – “Albatross (feat. BLASTPHEMIAN)” single
  
• Brazilian darkwave /synthwave solo project Gótia “Pornokratia” title track of the new LP “Pornokratia”
  
• Buxtehude, Germany new wave /synthpop /dark wave one-man project Coloured Tears – “Remembering every scar” from “Lost and unseen” LP
  
• UK apocalyptic post-punk solo project of Mat McNerney (Beastmlik, and Grave Pleasures), aka Scorpion Milk “Another Day into The Abyss” first single off the debut LP Slime Of The Times” [Peaceville]
• Los Angeles-based wave /synth-punk act Dorothy Fuzz “I Wish” single
  
• Chicago-based synth-punk four-piece Tension Pets “Slime-Filled Empty DVD Case” from “Expresso Plaza” EP
  
• New York deathrock/gothic rock husband-wife duo The Long Losts “What’s Left Of Us? (Hi-Fi Hillary Dance Mix)”
  
• Colombia punk /post-punk band Necia “Caos” from S/T album [Disordera Records]
• Melbourne rock n’ roll /punk rock four-piece The Antics “Takings” single
  
• New Zealand 5-piece lo-fi punk rock group from Tāmaki Makaurau, Dick Move “Fuck It” 7″ single [1:12 Records / Flying Nun Records]
• Lancaster, UK art-rock /punk /noise-pop /post-punk band TV FACE “WHITE NOISE WHITE LIES” second 7″ single from TV FACE’s forthcoming second album “WOLF RENTS BARK” [Crackedankles Records]
• Porto’s noise-punk explorers Sunflowers “Chameleon Kid” from the 5th LP “You Have Fallen… Congratulations!” [Fuzz Club Records]
• Nevada dark ambient /fantasy /harp /neo-classical /dungeon synth project Dream Wielder “Well Worn Tunnels” from the s/t debut album
  
• Würzburg, Germany ambient /black metal /medieval /dungeon synth act Nachtwache “Der Schwur – Im Dienst der Hellebardenbande” from the cassette LP “Der Hellebardenschwur” [Personal Uschi Records]
• Columbus, OH Fantasy Dungeon Synth music project Vale Minstrel – “Titania’s Dream Wheel” from V/A “Great Lakes Dungeon Siege 2025” cassette LP [WereGnome Records]
• France dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Dreamlake Mists “The Last Moon Chalice” from the LP “Twice Burnt, Thrice Reborn”