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

• Las Vegas, NV-based Korean shoegaze /post-punk /’K-goth’/ sadwave band, Past Self  “불​꽃​으​로​/ Bulkkoch Eulo” single
  

 Sin City-based misty ‘K-goth’ band stir atmospheric Post-Punk visions imbued with Korean lore through a romantic song about love, death, and hope for rebirth. Persistent elastic rubbery basslines, punctuated by a hypnotic drum machine, bounce somberly below an echoing ethereal entanglement of poignant rippling guitar melodies and forlorn icy glowing synths, as soft lovelorn vocals dreamily drift in and out of the ghostly realm with deep emotional gloom.

• Greece darkwave /coldwave /post-punk project Urban Space – “What I Once Called My Home” single
  

Since 2023, the enigmatic DIY solo project from Heraklion, Greece drapes immersive crepuscular and melancholic 80s-tinged new wave/post-punk realms. When the veil lifts over “What I Once Called My Home”, a misty grey undertone of tense serpentine warm bass pulses and trotting heartbeats, obsessively punctured by a forlorn river of pain-fueled guitar lines, filled with reverb, haunts and induces ghostly tormented vocals, to fall helplessly down.

• Vancouver, BC goth rock /darkwave /post-punk two-piece band DECOMME “Midheaven” from the upcoming LP “Sentiment”
  

First moody and dramatic teaser from the Canadian duo’s debut LP, “Midheaven“, is entrenched in an evocative and hiccupping interlocking of sharp, angular, slightly strident, and vibrant Television-like guitar riffs, that woefully resonate and pierce, underpinned by ominous hoarse churning basslines and mechanical beats, to surround an immersive vocal interplay of warm agonized pain and cold raspy spoken words, desolately soaked in glowing synth drifts, with haunting alternations.

• Australian dark ambient /industrial /ethnic /psych /electro group of Pieter Bourke (Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard) and David Thrussell (Snog/Black Lung), aka Soma “The Winged Measurer” title track of “The Winged Measurer” EP 7″ [Ant-Zen]
• Finnish, Helsinki-based post-punk /folktronica /electronica /trip-hop musician and producer Jarmo Huhta, aka Twile (feat. Laura Lehtola) “Hunger” from the album “Hunger Moon” via Cruel Nature Records
  
• Buxtehude, Germany new wave /synthpop /dark wave one-man project of André Grafert, aka Coloured Tears “Black lace” from the album “Years Ago”
  
• Bremen, Northern Germany Dark Wave /Gothic Rock /Post-Punk band led by Fabian Schulz, Attic Frost “God’s own country” from the album “A Sad Thought Made Dance”
  
• Minneapolis dark post-punk band, The Rope “The Show” off the upcoming new album, “Nightbird” via Swiss Dark Nights
  
• Lithuanian Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project Ghostwave “Blood Cathedral” single
  
• Cincinnati, OH Alternative Rock /Post Punk/ Cold Wave band Louse “Bernadette” third and final single off of the LP “Passions Like Tar” via Feel It Records
  
• German Goth /New Wave /Post-Punk act The Occasion “Motionless” from the s/t debut album
  
• London-based, Lithuanian cold wave /post-punk producer and Meta Moto label head, EGZOTIKKA – “JAUSMAS” (SOLIARIS COVER) off V/A “Northern Nightmares IV” cassette compilation series [Up North Records]
• Jacksonville, FL post-punk /synthpop trio Glass Chapel “Alive” single
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project moonvampire “Bury My Skin” single
  
• Spanish Coldwave /Post-punk /Darkwave solo project of Fran H., aka Ingreso Cadáver “Insecto” from “Insecto” EP
  
• Italian Cold Wave / Occult Wave duo Philippe Marlat and Stephan Seth AKA Iamnoone “In Fear” from the upcoming album “The Joy of Sorrow” via Cold Transmission Music
  
• Nancy, France Electro-Dark /Post-Punk /Coldwave duo Jesus Lives in Vegas “Story Of You” off the forthcoming studio album, “Joy or Sorrow” via Masse Noire Records & Meidosem Records
  
• Berlin-based post-punk /darkwave band Night Nail “Fates Explained (Kill Shelter Remix)” from “Fates Remade” remix album via Metropolis Records
  
• UK dark wave /industrial /electronic duo Tom Middleton and Kai Sheldon, aka Cruel Blue “Lies” single
  
• French coldwave project from Lille, Neurasthenic “Routine” 2-track single “Routine/Alprazolam” off the upcoming album “Life of Pain” via Swiss Dark Nights
  
• Scottish goth /ethereal /dark wave /electronic duo Erin and Ryan Hawthorne, aka Witch of the Vale “100 Ways To Leave (Kontravoid Remix)” from “100 Ways To Leave” EP
  
• Málaga, España dark new wave /synth-pop solo project LLUVA “El Último Cuervo” single via FerStent Records
  
• Brussels-based dreampop /new wave /post-punk /shoegaze /synthpop 4-piece band Turquoise “Parano​ï​a” single off the upcoming debut LP “Avant demain” via Freaksville Records
  
• German Synthpop Electro duo Frau Aicon & Das Wunder “Endless Rain” single
  
• São Paulo, Brazilian post-punk /darkwave spoken-word electronic dance music duo fronted by the sadly departed Liana Padilha, Noporn “I Know You” 2-track posthumous EP [Inner Shah Recordings]
• Russian post-punk /indie /synth wave /new wave band from Moscow, ГРУППА ХМУРЫЙ / GRUPPA HMURIY “Magistral | М​а​г​и​с​т​р​а​л​ь” from “Kartina 7, No. 24​/​9 | К​а​р​т​и​н​а 7, No. 24​/​9” EP
  
• New South Wales, Australian late 90s founded, dark wave /electronic solo project of project of David Bowden, Space Remains “Stars” from the 2-track 7″ single
  
• French veteran dark ambient /industrial /neo-classical /neo folk /new wave synth solo project (aka This Stranger Within), Dawn & Dusk Entwined “This is Happening (version 2)” from “Never Learn” EP
  
• Berlin-based nostalgic minimal-wave /electronic pop project by Italian artist Andrea Noce (aka Eva Geist) and German DJ, producer, and Eine Welt label head, Alexander Arpeggio, aka Andrea & Alexander “Amazing Grace” from the upcoming Mini LP “Loved Up” [R.i.O. Label]
• Rennes, French post-punk /coldwave /minimal synth project of Boris völt, aka Mode-in-gliANY – “La Flûte des vertèbres II” (Lyrics by Vladimir Vladimirovich Majakovski)
  
• Quebec City new wave /coldwave /post-punk trio Palissade “Premiers Jours” from “Rep​è​res Troubles” EP
  
• Nottingham, UK Post Punk /Coldwave duo LIight “Waiting” from the debut EP “Visions”
  
• UK darkwave /post-punk /coldwave /electronic producer Earth Surrender “Wires” single
  
• Montreal-based solo dark synth project NO “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” (Roxy Music Cover, 1973)
  
• Helsinki-based, Finland minimal synth wave duo AUS TEARS “Machine” from “Structure and Collapse” EP
  
• Los Angeles new wave /analog synth duo led by Andrew Clinco (of Drab Majesty), OP-ART “The Magic Hour” off upcoming debut LP “Oblique Pleasures Amidst Rough Times” via Citirax
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based retro-futuristic minimal synth electronic pop duo of Liz Wendelbo & Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander “Via Negativa (in the doorway light)” 2nd single and title track of the upcoming LP “Via Negativa (in the doorway light)” via Dais Records
  
• Geneva, Switzerland Post-Punk /Cold wave quartet Future Faces “I kiedyś Ja feat. Patrycja Proniewska” first single from Future Face’s second album “Memoria” via Roosevelt Records & ICY Cold Recs
  
• Munich, Germany NDW /EBM /techno/dark wave /synth-pop band Rue Oberkampf “I Won’t Surrender” single
  
• New York coldwave /darkwave /dark electronic duo, GHOST COP “Problems” 1st single from forthcoming “TROUBLE” LP 12”
  
• Ottawa, Canadian synth wave duo Violentene – “Break The Silence (JG Outsider Remix)” from upcoming V/A “Strict Tempo: Volume One (Part 1)” part one of L.A. DJ Vox Sinistra‘s label two-volume compilation [Strict Tempo]
• Texas-based EBM /Italo /dreampop /synth-pop artist LLORA “Forward (Semantix Remix)” [SYNTHICIDE]
• Slovenia/Croatia EBM /techno /dark wave /dark electro duo Christian Kroupa & Le Chocolat Noir, aka Black Dot “Losing Game” from “Love At Glance” EP [Italo Moderni]
• Swedish experimental industrial electronic artist Majestoluxe “Assertive Indifference (Test Dept. Remix)” [Icons Creating Evil Art]
• Canadian electro-industrial legends led by Bill Leeb, Front Line Assembly “(RE​)​CREATOR (Fotocrime Remix)” single via Artoffact Records
  
• Brighton, UK industrial /EBM /dark electro act Amorphous – “Cyber Futurism” from the upcoming LP “Skepticism” via Semantics Productions
  
• Naarm/Melbourne EBM /synth-punk /post-punk /industrial music act Hackitt “Baracade” single
  
• US/Danish funky /new wave /electronic duo of Augustus Muller (Boy Harsher) & Cooper B. Handy (LUCY), aka Safe Mind “6′ Pole” single
  
• Swedish retrowave /electronic /synthpop project Code64 “Protection Reformed” single
  
• Richmond, VA dark electronics /darkwave act Petrified Entity “Wretched” title track of the new EP “Wretched”
  
• German cyberpunk /electronic /future pop /synthpop producer from Hamburg, FADERHEAD “Summer Rain” single
  
• Miami, FL darkwave /synth-pop /dark electronic duo Deep Red “Atom Rot – mit Hoffa (Faustan)” single
  
• Florida Goth /Shoegaze /Post-punk solo act Last Grasp “Vampwave” single
  
• California goth /darkwave /post-punk solo act Crying Castles “If These Walls Could Weep” from upcoming LP “Black Magic and Simple Atrocities”
  
• Chillán, Chile post-punk band MONITOR “Se​ñ​ales single
  
• Smolensk, Russia dark wave /coldwave /post-punk solo act Gorodki “Night Stalker” single
  
• Mannheim, Germany industrial /darkwave solo project Endless Me “Disconnected” single
  
• New England-based goth /darkwave /post-punk duo Ghost Painted Sky “Insomnia” (single) early version of a track from the forthcoming second album
  
• Berlin-based Goth /Cyberpunk /Cold Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Blackened Heart” single
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah post-punk /darkwave solo project BALDUVIAN BEARS “Need Light” single via darkTunes
  
• Vienna based Darkwave /Cold Wave project of Mikhail Shlepin, aka Скубут [Skubut] “Vechno odin” single
  
• French cold-punk band from Metz, MESTRE “In My Darkness” from the upcoming second LP “All of You Are So Far” via Icy Cold Records
  
• Chicago-based wave /post-punk band SOFT KILL “Roseland” title track of the new EP “Roseland” via Born Losers Records
  
• Berlin-based new wave /indie musician Maximilian Seifert, aka Spell Trouble “Soft Fantasy” single via Irascible Distribution
  
• Vancouver, BC, Canada post-punk /synth-punk duo Sektion Tyrants “A Presence of Mind” from “Love & Suffer” album via Verboden
  
• One man Post-Punk project out of Germany, ANOTHER ABYSS “Death Unites Us” from the album “How To Stop Caring About Anything”
  
• UK gothic rock act Black Angel “Wait For Your Love” from the upcoming 4th LP “ELEKTRA”
  
• Riverside, CA goth /post-punk /darkwave /coldwave solo project Perpetual Midnight “Perpetual Midnight” from the LP “The Cry Dance”
  
• York, UK dub /no wave /post-punk trio Neon Kittens “Lika Like” 2-track single via Metal Postcard Records
  
• Spanish jangle /power pop /post-punk /punk trio from Pamplona, Tatxers “Tokion” from upcoming LP “Ezpatei disdira!” via Humo International
  
• Florence, Italy 4-piece wave /post-punk band Morgana “Corsica 81” from “Amour​-​Propre” 7″ single
  
• Cincinnati, Ohio pop /wave /post-punk DIY four-piece Artificial Go “Artificial Go” from the debut LP “Hopscotch Fever” via Feel It and Future Shock Records
  
• Antwerp-based, Belgian wave /post-punk band Rehash ‘Entertainment’ off ‘Aktion Reaktion!’ EP 12″/tape via Mangel
  
• Leipzig art-punk /no wave /post-punk trio Torx “Telephone” from s​/​t LP tape via Splitter Rec & U-Bac 2024
  
• Brooklyn, NY lo-fi /egg punk /garage rock /new wave /post-punk trio Medium “Total Control” single
  
• Rennes, France post-punk /cold wave /synth-punk trio TROIE “ATAB” from 2-track “ATAB BORDEL !” single
  
• Russian goth /post-punk /deathrock duo Cracky Tights “П​а​у​ч​и​й Т​у​п​и​к” single
  
• Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico garage punk solo act JACKET BURNER “Terminal Depression” from cassette debut LP “TERMINAL DEPRESSION” [Dirtbag Distro]
• Netherlands world /heathen /occidental pagan folk act Cesair “M​é​lusine” from the album “Haven”
  
• Berlin-based dark ambient /animistic folk /holy minimalism /dungeon synth /multi-instrumentalist and Celtic harp musician Andy Aquarius “Reverdie” from the upcoming LP “Forest Grimoire” [Breath Sun Bone Blood]
• French ambient /renaissance /medieval /dungeon synth project (Dragnor), Douves et Doloires “Voyage de Gargantua vers Paris” from the album “GARGANTUA”
  
• US renaissance ambient /dungeon synth /folk medieval project BORG “I. We Welcome Spring” from the cassette album “The Triumph of Spring” [High Mage Productions]