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

• Tours, France darkwave /postpunk /synthpop solo project ALIEN TEARS “Cyanide” from upcoming debut album “Landmines” [Icy Cold Records / Manic Depression Records]

High energy dark Post-punk to herald the upcoming debut album from the West of France solo act that rushes with the hypnotic, relentless tension of anxiously throbbing machine-driven rhythms alongside bouncy, saturated bass lines, while a chilly, distressed rambling of chiming guitars achingly resonates around dull, fearful male vocals, urgently talking about damage from toxins in the body.

• French synthwave / synthpop musician from Paris, SYDNEY VALETTE “Le Cimetière De Turin” third and final single from “I Fucking Love You” [Artoffact Records]

Third and final single from the upcoming LP dedicated to my hometown, with a reference probably to its Monumental Graveyard, the most obvious, even if not the only, choice, with its evocative long kilometres of porticoes and tree-lined avenues. A nod to the tense, forlorn, shadow-laced French Synth-pop nostalgia of Valette from a few years ago, the song tensely bounces over buzzing, sustained, yet abrasive bass lines along with relentless pounding snares to carry melancholic male vocals, turning to anxious dread, wrapped in gleaming sad key stabs, into an eerily convulsive crescendo, lifting with swirling trance-laden, jittery, high-pitched tones.

• Antwerp-based, Belgo-Canadian new romantic /new wave /hi-nrg /disco /synth-pop solo electronic project DVPLVX “Ĉi Vespere” off 2-track single “Ĉi Vespere / 43º”
  

Retro, electrifying high-energy Synth-pop sung in Esperanto by the Belgo-Canadian neo-romantic artist, fueled by the fast-paced churning drive of punchy, snappy beats and galloping basslines layered with whimsical, shimmering synth pads over passionate, hopeful male vocals, trembling and echoing with a bold “there is no return, tonight!”

• Berlin-based ambient /holy minimalism /pastoral psychedelia /folklore /wyrd folk multi-instrumentalist, record maker & harp slinger, Andy Aquarius “Vale Of Tears” from the upcoming “Vale Of Tears” LP [Matter Wheel Press]
• Ontario-based ambient /ethereal /acoustic /family folk trio, Mystikana “Through the Earth” title track of the album “Through the Earth”
  
• Seattle, WA dark neo-folk singer-songwriter King Dude “Sunset Skies” single
  
• New York post-industrial /post-punk /neo-folk project of Sean Ragon, aka Cult of Youth “Sidestreets” (Martial Cantarel cover) from V/A “DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume III” LP [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
• Paris-based experimental kraut/psychedelic /post-punk band eightycuts “Island” from the debut LP “Thousand Fates” [Teenage Menopause Rds]
• Berlin, Germany 5-piece dark wave /post-punk band Golden Apes “Resistance” from the album “The Sun Came Up Tremendously” [ICY COLD RECORDS]
• Russian darkwave /coldwave /post-punk act Polycythemia “Больничные койки” from “Холодные волны” LP
  
• Los Angeles post-punk duo DECEITS “The First Day Of Fall” single
  
• Legendary British gothic /electronic /industrial band formed in Leeds in 1984, The Cassandra Complex “Why” from the collection of the band’s remixed classics “Generating Station Complex”
  
• Celtic /goth /ethereal wave collaboration between Manchester‘s Dark Post-Punk solo project TVAM and L.A. synth-pop artist Riki, TVAM x RIKI – “The Sorrow” cassette single [Psychic Data]
• Italian dark-psych /post-punk /new wave five piece from Bologna, DegHerl “WishAir (Radio Edit)”
  
• Los Angeles new wave /post-punk band Cure For Youth “Strange Desires” third single from the debut LP “Synthetic World” [à La Carte Records]
• Knoxville, TN cinematic New Wave /Synth-Pop /Post-Punk solo project of Brandon Biondo, The New Romantics “Selfishly from the 2-track single “Selfishly / Now I See You”
  
• Los Angeles shoegaze /post-punk outfit Mirror Of Venus “Unlock The Door” from the upcoming LP “Never Say Forever” LP [à La Carte Records]
• Brussels, Belgium-based post-punk /darkwave trio Factheory “The Thread” single
  
• York, UK dub /no wave /post-punk trio Neon Kittens “Human Chair” from the 6th LP ”PINKU PROMISE”
  
• Hamburg, Germany ambient /industrial /minimal wave /experimental electronic side project of Anna Nin (aka GLARING), aka CVSY “Eat My Soul” from the album “Writhe”
  
• New Orleans-based lo-fi /experimental electronic /minimal synth solo project of Sara Storm, NAIL CLUB “Transition” from “Collected Methods” album [Optik Musak]
• Forest Grove, Oregon experimental minimal electronic /post-punk /industrial solo music project by musician and composer D Haddon, aka High Marks “Mesmer” off 2-track single “I’m Left Abstract” in anticipation of the upcoming LP “Factory Conditioned”
  
• Brussels/Brittany darkwave /coldwave /synth-pop /minimal wave collaborative work of Dasz (aka Ame de Boue) and Boris Volant (aka Mode in Gliany), Malvenn Gorycz “Nous les vivants” from the upcoming 4-track EP “Des Ombres Blanches” EP [Circonstances A.]
• French coldwave /minimal synth act Irrēcup – “Tangente” from Prêt” EP [Distag Records]
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /coldwave /synth-pop solo act Sinnerella “Teenage Horror” from “Old World Charm” EP
  
• Belgian shoegaze /coldwave /dark wave /minimal electronics music & visual project led by Holly Naboo (Naboo/The Hermetic Electric), OCD “That Door” from the debut album “33Rpm”
  
• Chicago, IL new wave /dream-pop /synth-pop trio Future Nobodies “Reciprocate” from the LP “Kiss Me Like You Used To”
  
• Oakland, CA-based Punk-fueled Synth-Pop /Neo-Goth duo, 55CASTLES “LOVELESS IN HELL” single
  
• Lithuanian EBM /darkwave /electronic artist Veiveris “Artumas” from “Obsesija” LP
  
• Las Vegas darkwave /EBM inspired electronic music project by producer Richard Cranor (formerly of FleischKrieg), Ashes Tomorrow “Sex Addict” single
  
• Los Angeles Witch House /Electro-Goth duo Hemwick Witch “Big winter” from “I still believe in the loch ness monster” EP
  
• Dutch new wave /darkwave duo Dort. “Don’t look back” single
  
• Italian occult /coldwave /darkwave duo, aka iamnoone “Never Leave, Never Die” from the new LP “Gloomy Days” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Los Angeles-based shoegaze /post-punk /indie pop /synth-pop trio Cold Showers “Lovestruck” from “World No More” EP [Industry Standards]
• Vancouver New Wave /Post-Punk quartet Actors “I’m Not Here” from the new “Our Love Will Live Forever” LP [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles EBM /dark electro /synth-punk /darkwave solo project by Cameron Findlay, aka Kontravoid “Without” off of the forthcoming album, “Sound of the Void” [Artoffact Records]
• Portland, OR goth /industrial /EBM /darkwave music project led by vocalist Lynette Cerezo, Bestial Mouths “Choke” from the new full-length studio album, “Dead Lines (Líneas Muertas)” [Negative Gain Productions]
• Montpellier, France goth /techno /darkwave /synthpop duo Denuit “tiens-moi, le monde tombe” from the new LP “nothing lasts | forever” 
  
• California EBM /industrial /dark electro project Divider “Nought Point Zero (Portion Control Remix)” from the maxi single “Nought Point Zero” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Bielefeld, Germany post-industrial /technoid /power noise /electronic duo of Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep, aka Synapscape “Disappear” from upcoming LP “The Future” [ant-zen]
• Parisian EBM /minimal electronic /post-punk /synth-punk duo Leroy Se Meurt “Kül” from V/A “ELECTRO & WAVE” EP first of three-part 12″ vinyl series [Murder tbs]
• BOY HARSHER – “HARD BEAT (VIRULENTS REMIX)”
  
• Paris-based dark /dreamy synth-pop solo act led by Matthieu Roche, Fragrance. ‘Bruises and Blood’ single (reimagined from “Echoes and Drawl”) from the upcoming album “Cuts of Kintsugi”
  
• Warsaw, Poland home recording / new wave /post-punk /synth-pop musician (part of egg punk band Raut), Pawel Gornik “future past” from upcoming debut EP “tiny bedrooms, little gatherings”
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah electro-punk /synth-pop duo Dylan Almond and Jill Whit, Brutalust “On My Mind” from the debut LP “First Come”
  
• Los Angeles-based new wave /darkwave /synth-pop duo Sacred Skin “Faith” single [Artoffact Records]
• São José Dos Campos, Brazil darkwave /synth-pop solo project Gótia “Homo Exstinctus” from upcoming album “HOMO MECANIKO”
  
• Portland, OR electronic-post-punk project of Bobby Moynahan, aka Ballerina Black “8th & never” single
  
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany dark electro / synth-pop band Destroy Me Again “Moth” single [Infacted Recordings]
• Minsk, Belarus New Wave /Darkwave /Post-punk /Synth-Pop /Dark Electronic solo project, aka Dusken Harmony “ The Locked Room” from upcoming “Unkeyed” LP
  
• Portland, OR Goth /Darkwave /Post-Punk artist Richie Filth “Night Terror” single
  
• Békéscsaba, Hungary PostPunk / Dark Wave band kékmandarin “Vérzik a Föld”
  
• Houston, TX-based gothic rock /darkwave musical fusion of Mario Usai (Clan of Xymox) and Ezekiel Solis (Helicon), Shadowsoul “Eerie” single
  
• Louisville, Kentucky dark wave / post-punk duo Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, Who Saw Her Die? “Killer at His Side” off “In Darkness” LP
  
• Atlanta, Georgia deathrock /dub electronic /post-punk band Entertainment “The Fantasy Spires (New Voice, Club Mix)” from “The Fantasy Spires” [EP]
• Wrocław, Polish goth-punk /deathrock band Apokalipstick “Syndrome” off the debut LP “The End Of The World Begins With A Kiss” [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Boston, MA-based dark post-punk /death rock band, Gossip Collar “Scavengers” from the second LP “EATEN OF WORMS”
  
• Detroit deathrock /punk band Day Residue “Gag Order” single
  
• Prague dark punk /deathrock band KIEN “Koně” from “V sevření chaosu a snění” EP [Urban Lurk]
• Szczecin, Poland punk /post-punk trio B.I.A.S. “BRUNATNE KOSZULE” from “KAMIENIE” EP [Syf Records]
• LA‘s synth-punk band (members of Diode, Vaguess, Rearranged Face, The Ticks), CRV “Bedside Manner” from the debut “Plus Tax And” LP [Under The Gun Records]
• Nantes, France 4-piece indie rock /no wave /post-punk band Kontexte “Dizziness” from upcoming LP “Hello World” [Chrüsimüsi Records / Dot Dash Sounds]
• Chicago, IL no-wave /punk /post-punk 4-piece (members of Negative Scanner and Human Beat), Spread Joy “Avoiding the Issue” from “III” LP [Feel It Records]
• Mar del Plata, Argentina new wave /dream pop /post-punk quartet Buenos Vampiros “Me siento muy mal” from the 4th album “El último disparo” [Spinda Records / Casa del Puente Discos]
• Prague, Czechia garage /pych /post-punk band Secondhand daylight “Cheapest Paint” from “The Unquiet” EP
  
• Berlin-based post-punk / punk band (members of Liiek and Pigeon), Tense “Rumours” from the debut LP “No Cure”
  
• Boston, MA, fantasy /dungeon synth act Unsheathed Glory “Castle in the Mushroom Tree” from upcoming LP “Featherfey”
  
• Ottawa, ON confy /nature /dungeon synth project Shire Oak “Pathfinder” from “The Flight of the Emerald Mallard” LP
  
• Canada confy /nature /fantasy /dungeon synth project Emerald Reflections “Twin Sun’s Rays…” from “Hearthen Tome XIII: The Glimmerwood” LP [The Hearthen Ring]
• New York-based dark ambient /isolationist drone project by artist Chris F. since 2008, AJNA “Circle of Black Candles” from “Mysterium Tremendum” LP [Winter-Light]