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

• Denver, CO darkwave /emo /post-punk band Dead On A Sunday “Nunca Volveré A Amar (ft. Haunt Me)” single
  

“A match made in hell” as a fan comment suggests, deep crooning vocals, layered with hopeful reflections and cold spoken words, sway on the echoes of a painful relationship against an urgent shivering and poignant misty tapestry of chugging bass lines and bittersweet sparkling guitar melodies, overflowing with heartwarming emotions.

• French–Swiss–Spanish post-punk trio RASKOLNIKOV “Voznesenie” (text from a poem by Vladimir Maiakovski, 1916-17) single via Icy Cold Records
  

Fueled by the tragic and ebullient verses pulled from a Majakovskij lyrical poem, the band weaves a poignant and impassioned post-punk number dripping with profound intensity and pathos, through a buzzing rush of out-of-control emotions driven by urgent punchy drums, thrumming basslines, and insistent wistful sharp-edged guitar riffs, to enrapture dramatic spoken word vocals with immersive rising mists of “Ascension”

• São Paulo, Brazilian coldwave /darkwave duo Halfsleeper “Remembrance Day (ft. Helders Oliveira of Jenni Sex)” single
  

“Vulnerability. Nostalgia. Remorse.” Let’s continue and end up with the deeply vibrant and immersive “Remembrance Day”, the new single, after a two-year hiatus, by the Brazilian duo Halfsleeper featuring the evocative voice of Helders Oliveira, an invitation to delve into the depths of your emotions and rescue memories that should be forgotten. The song meanders hypnotically on the resonant melodic wistful throbs of a winding organic post-punk bass line to punctuate evocative vocals and heartfelt back-ups, both ghostly and unrestrained, with buzzy desolate quivers of warm comforting synth swathes and sparkling ethereal guitar strings, wavering with remorse from dark recollections.

• Berlin-based dark minimal wave /neo-folk /suicide pop project of Jean Christophe Lon, aka Corpse d’Alsace “March Of The Sheep” from “Obitorio Europa” EP
  
• Norfolk-native, British neo-classical /experimental folk composer and improvising recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell “The Ghost who cared too much” from “GHOSTLORE” 8th release in the ‘Year of Lore’ series of 12 EPs [Brawl Records]
• London, UK-based dark ambient /jazz /drone folk duo of double bass player Tye McGivern & singer Kitty Whitelaw, aka Sealionwoman “Butcher’s Broom” from upcoming LP “Nothing Will Grow In The Soil” [state51]
• Sydney/Melbourne based drone /post-rock /post-metal /doom experimental ensemble featuring Lachlan Dale (guitar/effects), Peter Hollo (cello/effects) and Timothy Johannessen (percussion), Black Aleph “Descent” from the LP “Apsides” [Art As Catharsis]
• Welsh-language Leeds‘ gothic avant-rock power-coven trio of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys), aka Tristwch Y Fenywod “Llwydwyrdd” from the S/T album via Night School
  
• Bremen-based dark ambient /coldwave /darkwave /post-punk project of Anna Nin, aka Glaring “Marble (feat. Svanur)” single
  
• French bedroom /minimal wave /dub /synth-avant-pop three-piece band from Lyon, eat-girls “Unison” single via Bureau B
  
• Cincinnati, OH experimental minimal wave /synth duo Angie Willcutt & Micah Wu, aka ROD “Asyphixiation” from debut cassette EP “Concrete Jungle”
  
• NYC based ethereal /electronic /post-punk /darkwave musical artist Cristoforo Donadi “run them off the edge” single
  
• Hamilton, UK-based darkwave project of Lea Torn, AKA The Secret Experiment “Cold Machinery” single.
  
• German Electronic-Gothic-Punk-Wave band urbandoned. “Capsized” single
  
• Boston, MA ethereal /goth /darkwave multi-instrumentalist, musician, songwriter & producer Allie Frost “Reverie Pine” leading single for a 2025 album release
  
• British Gothic Rock band formed in the 80s by Porl King, Rosetta Stone “We Turned Away” from the album “Under The Weather” via Cleopatra Records
  
• Washington DC darkwave gothic rock band The Neuro Farm “Voices” single via Big Curve Music
  
• Southern California goth /synth-punk /industrial music solo project Cruelties “In Circles” from “On the mend” EP
  
• Oakland, CA-based Punk-fueled Neo-Goth duo, 55CASTLES “DAZE OF MAGNOLIA” from “AGENDA 55” EP
  
• Washington, DC bass-driven dark romantic electro-rock /post-punk band Amulet “So Cold” from the upcoming debut LP “Katharsis” via Distortion Productions
  
• Californian goth /darkwave /synthwave /synth rock act Orphan Zero “The Pact” single 
• Vancouver, Washington post-punk /darkwave two man band Roame “Waiting To Die” from “Around” EP via Dark Grave
  
• Miami, FL based synthwave /darkwave /dark electronic duo Deep Down Wise “Strangers” single
  
• L.A. dark electronic project of legendary producer John Fryer (Cocteau Twins, NIN, Depeche Mode, etc) and vocalist Louise Fraser, aka Muricidae “Sold My Soul” single via COP International 
  
• Colombian electroclash /post-punk /synth wave /darkwave /dark electronic solo project based in Bogotà, Noromakina “Rune” from the album “Insomnia” [Cold Transmission Music]
• California experimental dark folk artist Chelsea Wolfe “House Of Self​-​Undoing (Boy Harsher Remix)” from “Undone” EP
  
• Greek/Mexican industrial /darkwave /techno /EBM collaboration, The Hanged Man x 89S† “Instinto Infernal” single
  
• Berlin, Germany industrial /dark wave /dark electro /electronic project Fractiles “Eternal” single
  
• Denver, CO dark bass /breaks /techno /industrial dance music collaboration mobiius x BLVCK NOIZE “MAKE U MINE” single
  
• German NNDW /synth-pop duo Das Seminar “World Wide Web” single
• Turkish dark wave /synth-pop artist Artifisyel Pain “kötülük çiçekleri” single 
• Stockholm-based indie/ synth-pop project, formed in 2016 by Johan Sjöblom Eliot (member of The Exploding Boy), and Robert Eklind (formerly of Malaise), SJÖBLOM “Dead For Years” new single off the upcoming album “Dead Of Night” via COP International
  
• Melbourne-based EBM /synthpop /wave /rock-n-roll /synth-punk hedonistic alter-ego of Nic Oogjes (NO ZU bandleader), aka CONG JOSIE “Julee, My Baby” from the sophomore vinyl 12″ album “Moto Zone” via It Records
  
• Hamburg, Germany ‘dream punk’ / shoegaze /post-punk project of Dirk Knight, SEASURFER “A Short Term Effect (ft. Apolonia)” (interpretation of 1982 The Cure song)
  
• Baltimore, Maryland-based goth /hyperpop /synthpop /electronica act Computer Kill “Must Have Been A Dream” single
  
• Russian new wave /post-punk band, PLOHO “П​е​ч​а​л​ь” from “Почва” LP via Artoffact Records
  
• East Atlanta’s local goth-adjacent coldwave /post-post-punk trio of Chuck Rosencrans (of Dyskrasia), Nathan Oestry and Matt Weiner (aka Twins), Split Diopter “Navel Gazer” from the upcoming cassette album “To Bridge And Bind” via DKA Records
  
• Grodno, Belarus-based Gothic Rock /Darkwave /Post Punk solo act Aven Graph “Eternal Sleep” from the debut LP “Pitfalls”
  
• León, Mexico post-punk /dark wave band Pesadilla Gris “Sin Gravedad” single
  
• Saint-Petersburg-based minimalistic post-punk band LIVINROOM “Hedonism” single
  
• Late ’70s UK sax-laced post-punk band of X-Ray Spex co-founder Lora Logic, Essential Logic “Wake Up (BBC John Peel session)! from “PRE 040: ESSENTIAL LOGIC – John Peel session 21​.​02​.​79” EP 10″ via Precious Recordings of London
  
• Swiss/German gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave band Emily Kinski’s Dead “Dancing On The Battlefield (Single Version)” from the maxi single “Dancing On The Battlefield” via SwissDarkNights Label
  
• Leeds, UK gothic rock project of Joel Heyes, aka Byronic Sex & Exile “Them Fatale” from “Future Battlements” EP on Goth City Records
  
• Moncton, Canada-based Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic “We are the bats” single
  
• São Paulo, Brazil indie rock /gothic rock /post-punk band Strange Old Robots “The Sound Of Shadows” from the album “My Sadness is Contagious”
  
• Melbourne, Australia gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave band formed in 1991, IKON “Premonition” second digital single from the forthcoming mini-album ”Realm of the Black Sun”, to be released this Halloween
  
• Dallas, TX post-punk /darkwave band SEVIT “Jet Black Sommer” single off the upcoming Self Titled album “SEVIT”
  
• Hamburg, Germany goth /goth rock /new wave /post-punk band Ten Mad Mongers “Nothing” single
  
• Shanghai, China based industrial /EBM /darkwave project Poison the Vicar “Violence” single
  
• California goth /darkwave /post-punk solo act Crying Castles “Dance With Me” from upcoming LP “Black Magic and Simple Atrocities”
  
• Nashville, TN. cinematic dream pop /new wave /post-punk band Palm Ghosts “Love Bombed And Conquered” from “Fa​​​​​​​ç​​​​​​​ades 3 – Channeling” EP via Sweet Cheetah / Poptek Records
  
• Queens, NY indie rock /dream-pop /post-punk solo project Sea Shapes “I Miss the Way” single
   
• San Francisco noise goth band JOCK “Jock’s Labyrinth” from the upcoming EP “Labyrinth” via Cherub Dream Records
  
• Brazilian punk /post-punk /garage /synth-punk solo act COOL SORCERY “BRING IT ON​!​!​! (feat. Tombeau)” off new cassette album “TERRA INVADERS” via SYF Records (PL), Godless Tapes (US), Grog Records (AUS), and Idiotape Records (FR)
  
• Vienna, Austria coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “Space” single
  
• US dark ambient /old school dungeon synth act Klyvr “Whispers of An Alien Melancholy” from the cassette album “Conjuring Ov The Cosmos II” [Lost Armor Rec.]
• Rochester, US dark ambient /dungeon synth act Earthen Shield “to dwell in silence” from the cassette EP “the gentle slumber of finality” [Esoteric Obfuscation Productions/WereGnome Records]
• Arizona dark ambient /drone /dungeon synth act Ruin Dweller “Sadness, Solitude, and Sorcery” from the upcoming LP “Mirror Mage”