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

• Toronto, Canada new wave/post-punk solo project MARY “Frantic” from the upcoming album “Die Before Death” on Cold Transmission Music
  

After many scattered, yet very promising, unsigned years, Toronto post-punk musician Mary unveils the first 2 glimpses from his upcoming debut album with the vigorously anthemic and edgy darkwave guitar tones of “Devouring Me”, but it is the swirling icy bright synth chords of “Frantic”, a little ‘classic’ of a few years back, that propel lost male vocals into the neverending chaos of a doomed fate, we still fancy the most.

• Austin, TX darkwave/coldwave/new wave/post-punk project DIE TRAURIGEN “No Escape” from “Decaying” EP
  

“No Escape”, our fave from the new 2-tracker of Austin’s one-man-band, chugs into a painful existence strapped to crawling guitar rumbles, flooded by bleak abrasive riffs, amidst relentless menacing pulsing bassline and tight monotonous beats, over deep introspective echoes cursed in harsh reverb, left wondering in esoteric isolation.

• Medellín, Colombia darkwave /minimal synth solo project Ofelia Ortodoxa “Memories And Images”               

Colombian dark synth experimentalist delivers a new claustrophobic and powerfully immersive minimal cut comprised of twinkling eerie glimmers of synth that flash and reverberate through thick cold haunted pain, spreading hollow cries under pulsing mesmeric bassline menace and scattered beats. 

• Colombia synthwave/minimal synth/darkwave solo project of Ana Carolina, aka Hierba Negra “Bruma”             
• Spanish electronic/minimal synth/darkwave project from Barcelona, INTERSIGNO “I can see your soul” from “Welcome to Carcosa” LP
  
• Legendary early 80’s Australian post-punk/electronic/noise/post-industrial band and founders of the seminal M Squared label, Scattered Order – “Confirm Humanity” from the new album “Everything Happened In The Beginning” on Provenance
  
• Gothenburg, Swedish dark ambient/electronic/synthwave/’warm wave’ trio (formerly Cosmic Overdose) since 1981, TWICE A MAN “Thirsty” from the new EP “Naked” on Xenophone International
  
• Bern, Switzerland goth/post-punk/new wave/synth-pop duo Crying Vessel “The Departed” off the new album “Pleasures For The Wicked” on Cleopatra Records
        
• Bellport, New York crust punk/goth/post-punk band AUSTERE MOON “Leave the memory” new single
  
• Montreal, Canada-based postpunk/darkwave project of Portuguese multi-instrumentist and producer Sérgio Pereira, aka Morte Psíquica “Domingo de Primavera” from “O Fantasma” EP
  
• Portland, Or dream pop/post-punk/art-rock duo LORE CITY “It’s All Happening” from debut EP “Alchemical Task”
  
• Portland, Or dark coldwave/synthpop solo project Tender Tombs “Dead City” from the debut mini-album “Saccharine Sleep”
  
• Los Angeles synth/darkwave/post-punk project of YouthXattack, aka Nass Zuruck “Bad Blood” from the album “Disease is my punishment”
  
• Ravensburg, Germany post-punk /darkwave trio GREY PHOSPHOR “She Lost” from new EP “Novoice”
  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico goth/post-punk/darkwave solo project (formerly The Endless), Slow Danse With The Dead “I Look Like Death” new single
  
• French coldwave/post-punk/dark electronic duo from Toulouse, BLIND.DELON “Sinistrose (feat. Cathedrale)” from upcoming album “Chimères” on Manic Depression / Icy Cold Records
  
• Los Angeles darkwave/synthpop duo Live For You “Whit3 Flow3r 3xist” from “Sometimes It Feels Like Chains” cassette EP on Popnihil
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina bedroom Soviet post punk/new wave project Internet Dramatical Service – “Post-Covid” title track from the debut EP
  
• Synthpunk/synthpop/synthwave solo project of Chilean artist Angelo Santa Cruz, aka Hablemos del Alma “Desacelara” from “Programática” cassette album on Cudighi Records
  
• UK post-punk/darkwave splinter project by Klaus Devore from Nottingham, CLAUSTRAPHOBIA “Fascination” from “Fascination” (EP)
  
• Finnish goth rock/post-punk band from Helsinki, THE FLATFIELD “Dancer” new single on Post Gothic.
  
• Greek darkwave/post-punk/gothic rock outfit MALENKA “She” from the LP “Seven Creations”
  
• Hamilton, UK goth/darkwave project of Lea Torn, THE SECRET EXPERIMENT “Sunset” new single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden cinematic/gothic/dark rock band Bang Bang Rouge “Diamond Shower” from the EP “Instincts”
  
• NYC-based dark electronic/coldwave/synthpop duo of Jasmine Golestaneh & Eddie Cooper aka Tempers “The Use of My Belonging” new single on Dais Records
  
• Chicago/LA dark electro/electro pop/minimal synth solo project of multimedia artist Laura Callier, GEL SET “It Has Come To Our Attention” new single on 2MR
  
• French minimal synth/coldwave project by Boris VölT from Rennes, MODE in GliANY “Odeur-Medicale”
• French new wave/minimal wave/synthpop duo founded in Lyon in 1981 by Gérard Pelletier and Cati Tête, DEUX “Paris / Orly” from the remastered and reissue singles “Europe – Paris / Orly” on Minimal Wave
  
• London, UK dark minimal synth primitive electronic music project THIS IS THE BRIDGE “Control” from the new album “Once Upon a Time In The North”
  
• Glasgow, Scotland coldwave /minimal synth artist Claudia Nova aka HAUSFRAU “Clean Hands” from V/A “Votive Offerings” vinyl/tape/box set on Glasgow’s  AWWFN (At War With False Noise records)
  
• Memphis, Tn no-wave / minimal synth project from Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) in collaboration with and Ben Bauermeister (A55 Conducta), aka Optic Sink – “Personified” from upcoming S/T album on Goner
  
• French minimal synth-wave/darkwave project of Sandrine Deville (aka Bluefactoriz), aka Transmission “De Stijl” from the upcoming debut album “Cosmos” via Wave Records
  
• Montreal, Canada electronic composer, singer and poet Marie Davidson along with her husband and her half of Essaie Pas, Pierre Guerineau, and Asaël R. Robitaille, Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu “Renegade Breakdown” title track from the upcoming album “Renegade Breakdown” on Ninja Tune
  
• Los Angeles-based post-punk/coldwave/synth-pop project by Chris Stewart, Black Marble “Emma’s House” (The Field Mice cover) from the new EP “Bigger Than Life” on Sacred Bones
  
• Nashville, Tn shoegaze/dark pop quartet (members of Celebrity & Hopesfall), IN PARALLEL “Deep Dark” from upcoming debut EP ‘Fashioner’ out September 4th on Wiretap Records.
  
• New York industrial/synth-pop/post-goth solo project SEEMING “Someday Lily” off upcoming LP “The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity” on Artoffact Records
  
• Manchester, UK based lo-fi/post-punk/new wave artist XUP “Cut You Open” off the upcoming new album “Feed The Wolf Inside” via Cherry Vitriol Records
• Richmond, Virginia new wave/post-punk 4-piece THE GILBERTS “Pretend” from the debut EP “Curse of Castle Gleebo”
  
• Russian indie /post-punk four-piece from Moscow, ГРУППА ХМУРЫЙ / GRUPPA HMURIY “Privet Tebe (tribute recorded for the 40th anniversary of the Moscow group “Center”)”
  
• Toronto‘s art punk/post punk/synthpunk quartet Teenanger “Trillium Song” from the upcoming LP “Good Time” on Telephone Explosion
  
• Boston-area DIY new wave/post-punk band Sweeping Promises “Falling Forward” from the debut album “Hunger for a Way Out” out vinyl/digital on Feel It Records
  
• Brooklyn, New York coldwave/post-punk band BLACKLIST “Disorder” from the 2-track 7″ single “Disorder” b/w “No Secret Islands”
  
• London, UK experimental/noise post-punk trio GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS ”They’re Not Listening” from the forthcoming album “Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future” via Harbinger Sound
  
• German goth post-punk band ROPE SECT “Eleutheria” from the debut album “The Great Flood”
  
• Lithuania Post-Punk/Industrial/Alternative music project AKLI “Daylight” from the album “Taika”
  
• Boston post-punk/new wave outfit HOUSE OF HARM ‘Behind You’ from the upcoming LP ‘Vicious Pastimes’ on AVANT! Records
  
• Melbourne post-punk band FOCUS GROUP “I Saw The Light” (Todd Rundgren cover)
  
• Chilean post-punk, shoegaze and dreampop band from Coquimbo, SEATEMPLES “M.I.S” from forthcoming album “Trópicos”
  
• Hamburg, Germany post-punk/psychedelic/shoegaze/cosmic rock 5-piece MELTING PALMS “Abyss (Blind Delon Remix)” on La Pochette Surprise Records
  
• Finnish dark electronic/synth-punk project of Jacques Saph (Wild Roses Of Winter, Virgin in Veil, Masquerade), aka Carnal Machinery “Feral”
  
• Colombian synth electro/darkwave project Abstract Deity “The Metals” from V/A “HISS” compilation on Antioquia’s new label Discos Hechizos      
  
• Mexican deathrock/horror/post-punk trio Skeletal Bats “Flores Muertas” from “Demo” EP
  
• Swiss experimental/NDW/coldwave/post-punk/minimal wave project of Carlo Onda, KARL KAVE “All The Things You Say Come True”                                                                                                                                          
• Mogilev, Belarus coldwave/new wave/post-punk project Проспект Шмидта [Prospekt Shmidta] ‘Не твои дела’                                                                                                                                                                         
• Liverpool, UK 80s new wave unsung heroes A Flock Of Seagulls ‘I Ran (So Far Away) [The KVB Remix]’ on Cleopatra Records
  
• Brighton, UK synthpop/synthwave artist Maurice Business “Inside” from debut EP “Songs for the Office”
  
• Russian electrowave/ atomwave duo feat. 4.44 (St. Petersburg) & Masha Kasha (Brussels), aka 0Kontrol ‘Внутри’ from the new album “Odyssey”
  
• Berne, Switzerland electro/EBM/synthpop trio Nine Seconds “Slice Me Nice (Italoconnection Remix)” from EP “Slice Me Nice” on Infacted Recordings
  
• Norwegian future pop/synthpop/cyberpunk brainchild of producer Alyxx Digre, TECHNOMANCER “I Want You (Single Edit)” new maxi-single on Sub Culture Records
  
• Cleveland, Oh Futurepop/Synthpop band Ruined Conflict “Living in black and white” new single
  
• Swedish dark/minimal/cosmic/synthwave solo project Once A Man “Satellites” new single
  
• German industrial/EBM/synthpop new project by Stephan Tesch (former “Paranoid”) and Martin Bodewell of “Orange Sector”, PANDORIA “Natural” from the upcoming “Clean” on Infacted Recordings
  
• Vancouver, Canada retro synthwave/synthpop project FM Attack “My Life (Marvel83‘ Remix)”
  
• Cambridge, Massachusetts electronic/synthpop musician André Obin “Infinite Sustain” from the upcoming album “Bridging the Void” on Cleopatra Records
  
• Russian lo-fi/coldwave/atmospheric pop project from Samara, Парк Дружбы [parkdruzhby] ‘Сон’ from the debut S/T EP