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

• Florida-based industrial /coldwave /synth-pop /minimal synth /electronic project of Nic Hamersly, aka Ortrotasce “Not Mine” single
  

The Florida-based electronic musician has mastered, for a little more than fifteen years, a consistent distinctive take on the 80s icy and deeply melancholic analog synth driven sound, at times charged with clanking industrial edges, while the keyboards cast their moody melodic proclivity with fluid minimal ease.
A propulsive sequence of warm oscillating bass pulses, and insistent tight lashing programmed beats, topped by wistful glowing synth swirls, layered with atmospheric chilly spacey plucking lines that fluctuate with 8-bit tones over sad, distorted spoken words, struggling, as if trapped and disconnected, to reach upward toward a celestial pain-filled voice.

• US goth /industrial /synth-pop /post-punk solo project Damien Hearse “BLACK SUMMER” single
  

The Arkansas scuzzwaver has been missing for exactly a year and returns with a somehow disturbingly romantic and infectious throbbing dark summer love song. Driving, crashing beats, droning bass oscillations and harsh melancholic synths bleed and quiver with aching wistful melodies around intensely restless, disappointed male vocals, brooding with distorted layers of sadness, separation, and longing.

• Knoxville, TN cinematic New Wave /Synth-Pop project of Brandon Biondo, The New Romantics “Now I See You” single
  

Fresh from a venture as a duo into ‘horny’ electro realms, the Knoxville musician leaves the synths aside for a haunted romantic serenade to the moon, Gun Club-style, with tight backbeat rhythms, urgently moody ascending bass vibrations, and mechanical, jagged, sharp guitar riffs that reverberate melancholically around gentle, aching male vocals soaring toward ecstasy, to express a deep and lasting love.

• California alternative rock /dark folk singer-songwriter CHELSEA WOLFE “Dancer in the Sky” from the 9th LP “The Dark” [Loma Vista Recordings]
• Nashville-based shoegaze /synth-pop /post-punk /dark dream pop duo Magic Wands “Diamond Rain” single [Metropolis]
• Leeds, UK-based goth /post-punk /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band led by Sasha Raoul, Deathtrippers “When Darkness Fades” (Recorded live at the Old Chapel)
  
• Brisbane, Australia 5-piece dreamy /psychedelic /shoegaze /post-punk band Ancient Channels “Juniper” from the second LP “Static Spirit” [False Peak Records]
• Münster, Germany 4-piece new wave /post-punk band Oatumn “Powerhouse” from the upcoming debut LP “A Room”
  
• Brighton, UK-based dark wave /post-punk /death pop duo Corlyx “Your Heart In The Serpent’s Mouth” single [Out Of Line Music]
• English influential gothic rock band formed in 1988 by frontman Porl King, Rosetta Stone “Shadowban” single from upcoming LP ” Executing Nostalgia” [Cleopatra]
• Gotha, Germany trip-hop /post-punk /gothic rock solo project of M. Falkenstein, aka HEILSTATT “Die Brücke” from “Korridor” LP [House of Inkantation]
• French post-punk /cold wave /synth-punk solo project trait d’union “Tristesse préventive” from “Tristesse préventive” (EP)
  
• Portland, OR 4-piece synth-heavy /goth /post-punk /dark wave band La Isla Electronica “Volver A Empezar” from the debut LP “3:17” [à La Carte Records]
• Estonian post-punk /dark wave /coldwave duo, Viktor Kuu “Ohne Liebe” single
• Canadian Post-Punk /Dark Wave /Minimal Synth solo project NoX Solis “Love Company” single
  
• Paris/Roscoff-based French industrial /coldwave /synth-punk trio ANTIFER “Stella Mantis” title track of the new album [Icy Cold Records]
• Liverpool, UK darkwave /coldwave/gothic pop /electronic duo Those Holy “Bruises” single off the upcoming debut live “Cold Celtic Electronics” EP
  
• Brussels/Brittany darkwave /synthwave /synth-pop collaborative work of Dasz (aka Ame de Boue) and Boris Volant (aka Mode in Gliany), Malvenn Gorycz “Equilibre Giratoire” from the first “La Profondeur des Mondes” EP [DRAMES]
• German minimal wave /angst pop duo and Galakthorrö label owners (Haus Arafna), November Növelet “All Your Love” 2-track 7″ [Galakthorrö]
• Lamagistère, France minimal wave /coldwave act Basse Fidélité “L’orage” from “Vous êtes ici” EP [Loretta]
• Swiss no wave /drone /synth-pop /electronic solo artist (aka Karl Kave), Carlo Onda “Ça fait tourner la tête” from “Reality” LP
  
• New York dream pop /electronic /darkwave duo R. Missing “I Can Feel Your Solar System” single
  
• Bradford, UK goth /post-punk /dark synth-pop duo La Rissa “Eat The Rich” single
  
• Detroit, MI goth /post-punk /synth-pop /darkwave band Ingo Swann – “Torture” from the second LP “3 Poisons” [à La Carte Records]
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop duo Vioflesh “Your Blood” [darkTunes]
• San Francisco goth /darkwave /industrial group led by vocalist/lyricist Lynette Cerezo, Bestial Mouths “Hiss” 2nd single from the LP “Dead Lines (Lineas Muertes)” [Negative Gain Productions]
• Cologne, Germany Post-Punk / Dark Wave solo-project Hinfort “Romanticism” single
  
• Berlin-based Synth-Pop /Synth Wave project Paura Diamante “Nebelmond” from the upcoming album “Nachtwärts”
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy shoegaze /post-punk solo project The Spoiled “When It Rains (Suzi Sabotage Remix)”
  
• US/Swiss darkwave /post-punk /coldwave trio Crying Vessel “Angels Of Ruin” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Montreal, Canada-based dance punk /shoegaze /post punk /UK britpop band Shirehead “Dancing Machine (Odonis Odonis Remix)
  
• German Synthpop /Electro project by S. Eicken and D. Wunder, aka Frau Aicon & Das Wunder “2nd World” single
  
• Wiesbaden, Germany electro industrial act Fïx8:Sëd8 – “Puritan (Plastikstrom Remix)”
  
• Birmingham, UK industrial metal duo led by JK Broadrick with bassist B Green, aka GODFLESH “Living/Ending” from the tenth and penultimate album “Decay” after a 25-year hiatus [Relapse Records]
• Colombian industrial /EBM duo Dire Forze “Nach Und Nach” single [Nevel Records]
• Guadalajara-based Mexican Dark Electro-Wave duo Red Industrie “Revelations (feat Daniel Barrera)” from “Navigator” [PürZynth Rekords]
• German electronic /industrial /synthpop project led by Torben Schmidt, Lights Of Euphoria “City Streets (Extended Mix)” [Infacted Records]
• US new wave /synthpop trio Declaration “Vigilance” single
  
• London-based cold wave /new wave /synth-pop artist William Barradale, aka A Thousand Mad Things “Remorse (Working Men’s Club Remix)” [Nettwerk
  
• Dublin-based electronic synth-pop trio Tiny Magnetic Pets “Lost My Guiding Light (Again)” from “Astralux” EP
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah darkwave /post-punk /synthwave project BALDUVIAN BEARS “Black Bear” single [darkTunes]
• Hull, UK-based gothic/post-punk/darkwave solo project of musician Billy Doulgeridis, aka A Murder of Crows “We Dance (Killing You)” single
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany dark ambient /industrial /neo-folk /post-punk solo project Dignified Burial “Sühnegang” title track of the debut LP “Sühnegang” 
  
• Providence, Rhode Island goth /darkwave project by veteran musician John McLaren, GHASTLY SHADOWS “Lost Hearts” from the EP “XI”
  
• Texas Electronic /Darkwave project SEGRETA “Void” single
  
• Los Angeles-based EBM /witch house /darkwave /post-punk trio Digital Drvgs “Hexed Hearts” single
  
• Miami, Florida versatile goth /darkwave artist Veinamous “Mémoire” single
  
• London Darkwave /EBM /Post-Punk duo Discarnate “Excoriated” single
  
• San Antonio, TX post-punks Nocturnal Prose “Withered Rose” from the upcoming first LP “Western Interests” [TOTAL AGENCY]
• Austin, Texas nu-wave /art-punk /post-punk band Guiding Light “Haare” from the LP “Fear On My Own Time” [Stucco / Post Present Medium]
• Valencia, Spain punk /post-punk band 6o6o “Todo lo que dijo” from “¿Cómo salgo de aquí?” EP
  
• Los Angeles lo-fi garage punk group XRAY XEROXX “Channel Surfing” off the second full-length album “Brainwashing The Populace”
  
• Florida-based pioneering electronic /witch house duo White Ring “Eyes 4 U” first single off White Ring’s upcoming album “FATE”
  
• Berlin-based ambient /comfy synth /chamber instrumental folk project Willow Tea “The Somber Fair” from “Leaf Songs” EP
  
• Maine black metal /castle synth /sword and sorcery /dungeon synth project Memorials ov Gall “Laid Upon the Forest Floor – An Ode to the Ancient Ones” from cassette album “A Valorous Dawn!” LP [Fiadh Productions]
• Sweden dark ambient /fantasy /medieval /old school dungeon synth project by Simon Heath (of Atrium Carceri), Mountain Realm “Sarcophagus” from the 6th LP “Beastbane” [Cryo Crypt]
• Sukabumi, Indonesia ambient /fantasy /comfy synth /old school dungeon synth project of Pale Horseman, aka Great Mercenary “The Wandering Dusk Knight” from “The Ethereal Glow of the Fairy Woods” LP
  
• Provo, Utah, Improvised Modular Synth Made From Plants project spaceseer “Fern” from “Plantae” 2-piece long-form album