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

• Dutch cold wave /minimal synth one-man band Grimdeluxe “Ya Stalker” from the forthcoming album “Fragments” [TONN Recordings]

TONN Recordings inaugurates a new synth-driven season with the Dutch goth beatmaker, whose new track marches mechanically through steady drum patterns alongside gravelly sinister, buzzing and stabbing bass loops, icy synth whirls and evocative croaking motifs, while earnest, unwary baritones brood about how a stalker will show you your hopes and dreams to lead you into the unknown.

• New Jersey gothic /darkwave /dark electronic artist Mike Daimon “Forgotten Place” from double single “Forgotten Place / She’s the Night”
  

Moody, dismal, and propulsive electro darkwave style from NJ producer, which depicts sinister and dire shadowy atmospheres, swept by dramatic icy synth melodies and stomping, whipping drum programming over pitiless, wickedly distorted vocals, revealing a macabre poetry, swathed in secrets, emptiness, and fear.

• Salt Lake City, Utah darkwave /post-punk solo project of Zach Anderson, aka BALDUVIAN BEARS “Sorrow” single [darkTunes]

SLC’s solo act returns in a straightforward, tight and punchy post-punk fashion that suitably balances a propulsive, snappy and crackling drum-machine drive with wailing, desperate synth stabs and urgent melodies atop lost, dull vocals switching back and forth between depression and anxiety to explore the deathly immobility that happens after a loss.

• Berlin-based gregorian /vapor cave /dungeon chant /French-Romanian poetry /Medieval /dark ambient project of Andy Aquarius (aka Ozbolt), aka King Vatra “Din Somnul” from the album “Bells From The Deep” [Fiadh Productions]
• Ukrainian ethnic folk /post-punk solo project Квартира Номер 6 [Apartment Number 6] “Холодно” single
  
• UK goth /folk /minimal cold wave /bedroom pop solo project of Barcelona’s Belgrado band member (ex Good Throb, The Shitty Limits, The Love Triangle), Louis Harding, aka Lo and Behold “Idiot’s Grin” from the upcoming debut album “Onward Journey” [Gob Nation]
• Boston, MA post-punk /new wave /coldwave trio HOUSE OF HARM “Away Above” single
  
• Los Angeles-based goth /shoegaze /synth-pop /dream-pop /post-punk duo Magic Wands “Time To Dream” single [Metropolis Records]
• Den Haag-based synth wave /electronic producer Alina Valentina – “I’m So Sorry” from V/A “Pulsating Body” 50th release label’s compilation [BODY MUSICK]
• New York wave /electronic /dream pop /synthpop act R. Missing “Supermuted” single
  
• Kyiv, Ukraine Post Punk /Cold Wave solo act DRKLV “Closure” single
  
• Toronto-based post-punk band She Wears Black “Please” single
  
• São Paulo, Brazil electronic /darkwave producer Böhr “Scrape my teeth” single
  
• Washington, D.C. goth /dark electro /darkwave solo act Dominus Hex “Caldera” single
  
• German/Italian goth /post-punk /darkwave collaboration Hinfort & The Spoiled “to your grave” single
  
• Lima, Perú dark cold wave “one man band” SCHMERZ “Alone” first track for the upcoming SCHMERZ’s new album
  
• Florida Goth /Darkwave /Post-punk solo act Last Grasp “Carrion Feeders” single
  
• Seattle deathrock /darkwave duo Ghosts in the Graveyard “In The Darkness“ from the upcoming full-length, “Absolute Death” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• UK eclectic darkwave solo project of Klaus Devore, aka Claustraphobia “Crushed Like Petals” single
  
• Stockholm-based dark pop /post-punk solo/side project of singer & songwriter Fernando Honorato from Swedish band Principe Valiente, aka Fernando’s Eyes “More For You” new single [Aenaos Records]
• São Paulo, Brazil post-punk /darkwave act Halfsleeper “Cast Away” from the debut album, “Midnight Blue” [Wave Records]
• Ukrainian dream pop /synth-pop /post-punk one-man band of musician Daniel Merkulov, aka Aircraft “Idiot Love” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY solo electro /dark synth-pop /new-wave /minimal-synth project of Arjun Bhaduri, aka EISHA “Tempered Xystence” from “Lone Signals” LP
  
• Memphis, Tennessee-based new wave /synth /minimal post-punk trio of Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS), Ben Bauermeister, and Keith Cooper, aka Optic Sink “Don’t Look Down” first single from the third LP “Lucky Number” [Feel It Records]
• Toronto industrial /electronic /synth-pop /darkwave /post-punk duo Constantin Tzenos & Denholm Whale, aka Odonis Odonis “Hijacked” from upcoming s/t “Odonis Odonis” LP [Royal Mountain Records]
• Italian lo-fi /experimental /industrial /new beat /cold wave /post-punk /techno punk producer Andrea Natale, aka Anna Funk Damage “Chiang Mai” from upcoming “Tarantola” LP [Raw Culture]
• Paris-based Darkwave /Shoegaze /Post-Punk /Coldwave artist Sad Madona “Soldier” single
  
• Bogotá, Colombian synth-pop /minimal synth solo act David P. “Ausencia” from the debut “Regreso a la Edad Oscura” EP
  
• Minsk, Belarus darkwave /post-punk trio Dlina Volny “Flair (Chaos International Remix)” [Italians Do It]
• French minimal cold-synth wave project from Jean-Christophe Goleau and Pascal Fauchard, two members of cult synth-punk D Stop (just before the former will start his celebrated neo-classical darkwave endeavour Collection D’Arnell Andrea), LES VISITEURS DU SOIR “Le vent le vent” from the only unreleased album “1984” LP [Meidosem Records / Infrastition]
• NYC-based minimal synthpop band of Uruguay and Dominican Republic duo Jean Lorenzo (Silent EM) and Melanie Giselle (Ces Cadaveres, Ligeia, In The Future), aka Intolerable Life “Willow Weep for Me” (originally a jazz standard from 1932) single
  
• Berlin-based new wave /synth-wave solo project of visual artist and musician Laslo Antal (1/2 of post-wave duo Sixth June), DIESEIN “Monday morning” from the third album “I like it / I hate it” [Sweet Sensation / Young & Cold Records]
• Düsseldorf, Germany early ’80s founded, art-synth auteurs led by Ralf Dörper and Michael Mertens with the new singer Thunder Bae, aka Propaganda “Distant (Schiller Remix)” from “Remix Encounters” album [Bureau B]
• Malta-based experimental electronic /electropop project of London‘s multi-instrumentalist and record producer Kristian Craig Robinson, aka Capitol K “Lean Into Me” first single from his upcoming 10th album “Artichoke” [Faith and Industry]
• Sheffield, UK-based cinematic dark synthpop duo Dorian Cramm (Berlyn Trilogy) and Emma Barson, a.k.a. Promenade Cinema “Runners” from the new LP “AFTERLIFE”
  
• Glasgow, Scotland-based Synth-Pop /Dark Wave artist Propter Hoc “When the Spirit Takes You” from “When the Spirit Takes You” EP [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Bern, Switzerland post-punk /darkwave duo Jochen K & Johnny W “Ghosts” from the debut LP “Of Idols and Ghosts”
  
• Isle of Man, UK Synthpop /Post-punk band Mark E Moon – “A Kiss Before Dying” from the 4th album “Pop Noir” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Berlin-based wave /synth-pop band MTTM “We Are Alive” single [retroreverbrecords]
• Russian electronic /darkwave /synthwave duo NIIKTO (Níkto) “Hollow” from “Nocturnal Emissions II” EP
  
• German post-punk /indiewave /postwave solo project, A Transition “Left Behind feat. Hèrbé” (single)
  
• US EBM /acid /post-punk /electro /industrial /electronic producer KNOWNPLEASURES “Selfhate” single
  
• Berlin industrial /synthpunk /EBM /post-punk moniker of Leonard Donat (Vlimmer), aka ASSASSUN “The Sons of the United Plagues” from the 4th LP, “Retrofate” [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk duo Princess Ugly “The Out” single
  
• London-based EBM /Industrial /Techno /Darkwave /Dark Disco producer and Villainess Records founder, Claudia Kane – “Surrender (METALLIC LOVER Remix)” from “Surrender (Remixes)” EP [Villainess Records]
• Bremen, Germany EBM /dark electronic duo Anna Hinrichs & Kay Osterloh, aka Mono/xyd – “My Neighbours Balcony” single
  
• Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “Bad Thing” from the LP “Manual For Dying” [Gymnocal Industries]
• Brussels-based EBM /coldwave duo ULTRA SUNN “L.A. Drags” from the upcoming sophomore LP “The Beast In You” [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /darkwave /dark electropop duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “Desire (Hexmaschine Remix)” from “Desire Remixes” EP
  
• US industrialists Maroulis of NØIR and Daniel McCullough of Silver Walks, NØIR vs Silver Walks “Nothing Stays” collaborative interpretation of Cyberaktif‘s 1990 Wax Trax classic single, featuring Valentina Veil (VV & The Void) on backing vocals, plus remix EP
  
• Stockholm-based Polish minimal electronic /EBM solo project La Santé “Jestem” off “jestem na wojnie” 2-track single
  
• Franklin, Massachusetts-based industrial /synth-pop one-man electronic music project of Seattle‘s Tom Shear since 1988, Assemblage 23 “Tolerate” from “Null” LP [Metropolis Records]
• German new industrial /future pop /synth-pop collaboration between Daniel Myer and Steffen Keth (de/vision), aka DEVISION REDUX “Synchronize (8am Bar Mix)” from the debut “Synchronize” maxi single
  
• Norway dark synthpop solo project Fabbrica 82 “Little One” single
  
• Anchorage, Alaska gothic rock duo Cliff and Ivy “The Healer” from the 2-tracker “Angels Eyes: Singles”
  
• French Goth-Deathrock band from Pictavia, The Last Oath “Beast Inside” off the upcoming LP “Smile Of The Moon” [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Florence, Italy post-punk /deathrock duo Dystopian Society “Overturned Reality” title track of the album “Overturned Reality” [Danse Macabre Records]
• Leeds, UK agitprop /art-punk /post-punk trio of bassist/singer Claire Adams (Objections), drummer/singer Kathy Gray, and guitarist/singer Bobby Glew (Guttersnipe), Nape Neck “The Rabbit” from the first LP “The Shallowest End” [Dot Dash Sounds / Red Wig Records]
• Berlin post-punk band Liiek “I Don’t Want to Fight” from “Living in a Fiction” [Adagio 830 / Turbo Discos]
• Edinburgh, Scotland noise-rock /psych /post-punk band Vexations “Armbreaker” from “A Dream Unearthly” EP [Cruel Nature Records]
• Brooklyn, NY-based indie rock /bedroom punk band Stripes “Hurts” single
  
• Belgian garagecore punk outfit Mitraille “Half Way ’round The World” from “EP IV” 7″ [Belly Button Records]
• Tennessee lo-fi /experimental /black metal /neo folk /dungeon synth project Spife “The Ballad of the Black Dragon” from the LP “Thranuldulth, The Blind, Black Dragon”
  
• German dark ambient /doom /old school dungeon synth project Old Forsaken Realm “Towards The Distant Echoes Of Castle-Crowned Mountains” from the LP “Eerie Apparitions Upon A Path Long Forgotten”
• US dungeon synth /80s-cheap-fantasy-VHS /vaporwave artist Dreamcastle™ “6076 Dark Dragon’s Den” from the LP “Lego Castle: 1979-1998” [Hushtones]
• Lo-Fi /Videogame Music/Dark Dungeon Chiptune project Vitreous “The Pendant of Power” from the cassette album “Sahasrahla” [Personal Uschi Records]