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

• Italian electro /post-punk /dark wave duo Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini, aka Schonwald “Starless” single
  

Second single in a row for the veteran Italian pair that keeps pushing their abrasive yet lush signature cinematic electronic style into bold new shades of penetrating darkness with every release. “Starless” bolts menacingly on murky swells of sinister gritty drones, driven by metallic, snappy drum programming and flickering rumbling bass lines, spiralling with lonely, hopeless female vocals, to achingly radiate into a cold dark void where sinister echoes, secretive shadows, and lost dreams reign.

• London-based EBM /dark wave /synth-pop collaboration METALLIC LOVER & Claudia Kane “A NEW WAY TO HURT” first single and title track of the forthcoming 4-track EP “A NEW WAY TO HURT” [Villainess Records]

Fast-paced, electrifying Dark Synthpop lead single from London‘s collaborative project explores the neon-lit shadows of a restless soul bouncing through layers of lush, shivering emotional synth swirls and Jacno-like tinkly, stacking lead keys, while secretive, aloof female vocals laced with emotional longing and breathy cries, contemplate abandonment, loneliness, and desire through a lens of burning it all down to try something new.

• Italian Dark Electro Wave /Synth DIY musician from Turin, Zoltan Freitag “Another Place” from the 2-track single “Oblivion”
  

Turin‘s one-man DIY atmospheric electronic musician returns with two moody, heady and surreal synth wave imaginings. In “Another Place”, soft yet grounded brooding vocals seep through with heartfelt, thought-provoking storytelling, swaddled in tinkling, melancholic arpeggios, spacey string sweeps, and burbling low ends, scattered with mechanical, crashing drum programming, to introspect on states of consciousness and self-judgment through a lens of belonging elsewhere rather than in the harsh game-playing world of illusions.

• One-woman dark pagan folk project from New England, Swallowed by the Thicket “To the Man I Truly Love” from the cassette album “Reflections in the Wood” [Hidden Crypt Records]
• Antwerp, Belgium lo-fi /experimental wave /art pop /post-punk solo project by Jan Tromp, Burger Service – “Oude Stad” from the cassette album “Hart Voor De Zaak” [RDSR]
• UK Electronic/ Darkwave/ Post-Punk alternative artist, DJ and producer, Pete Burns, aka Kill Shelter “I Don’t Believe in You” (Talk Talk cover, 1986) from the cassette mini-album “Slow Burn Sorrow” (Selected Electroacoustic Works Volume One)
  
• London–Athens-based coldwave /darkwave /dark synth artist Night In Athens “WITHR (feat. Skelesys)” single [Artoffact Records]
• Rennes, France post-punk /minimal synth /cold wave project by Boris Völt (Irène De Milo, Oknho, Premier Mouvement), Mode in gliany “Sous la pluie” from the 2-track single “STRAPADENN”
  
• Geneva, Swiss cold wave /electro-wave synth musician Orphia feat. Vermont “River Lea” single
  
• Polish industrial darkwave duo from Warsaw, World, Interrupted “Bez Ciebie Nic” from the upcoming debut album “Sorrow, Bring Me Joy” [Requiem Records]
• Halle (Saale), Germany synthwave /dark wave/ post-punk duo, Left For Pleasure “BURDEN” from the upcoming “CLAYMORE” LP [Young & Cold Records]
• Leipzig-based Dream Pop /Psychedelic Rock /Dark Pop /New Wave band Twins in Colour “Shit Advice” from the debut “We´ve Been To The Future” LP [All my ghosts]
• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dreampop /dark wave multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, Slo Moon “I Want You” single
  
• London-based gothic western rock/ post punk quartet Mouth Ulcers “A Perfect End” single
  
• Bari, Italy electrowave /darkwave solo project of Davide Girone, aka The Way To Nowhere “Amnesia” from the debut LP “Unwired Despair” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• German Goth /Electronic /Post-punk /Darkwave duo urbandoned. “Blindfolded” single
  
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin goth /coldwave /post-punk outfit Genau “Margaret in Dub” from the 2-track single “Live by the Water/Margaret in Dub”
  
• UK new wave /post-punk band formed circa 1981, I CAN CRAWL “Motor Neurone” from upcoming album “Dreamhome”
  
• New York cold wave /post-punk solo project Postlooperish “Meditations” title track of the new 3-track EP “Meditations”
  
• Brisbane, Australia shoegaze /post-punk trio Total Commander “Zero” sophomore single
  
• Maryland shoegaze /post-punk solo project 4dversary “Grave Daze”
  
• Detroit, MI Goth /Shoegaze /Dark Post-Punk band ENTRIES “Prefer the Worst” from “Time of Snakes” EP
  
• Poland coldwave /post-punk band Croix Noire “Ja – maszyna” from the new LP “Jestem” [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Florence, Italy post-punk /darkwave solo project of Luigi Buonaiuto, aka Terminal Serious “The Stifling Life” from the third album “Tear You Away” [Swiss Dark Nights]
• Rome-based Post Punk /Coldwave /Darkwave collaborative project of Italian musician Marco Cattani (Halo Effect and The Mark), Chemical Waves “I laugh alone at night (feat. MEKONG)” from the album “Our love in a dying world”
  
• Houston, TX-based Mexico City-born dark wave project Danza Muerta “Rito” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ dark surf /dark wave /post-punk band Rare Kreature “Otra Muerte (feat. bitte)” from the first LP “Noises Beyond”
  
• Houston, TX Post-punk /Gothic music project Siever “heavy winds” single
  
• Italian goth /darkwave /post-punk band Ghost Enclave “The Lighting” 2nd single from the upcoming LP [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Louisville-based dark wave /post-punk duo of Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, aka Who Saw Her Die? “Harbinger (Mothman)” single
  
• Gothic rock band from Finland, Distant Stares “Alright” single
  
• Bergen, Norway goth /dark wave duo Plastik Noir “Spiral” single
  
• Sardinia, Italy Post-Punk /Dark Wave band ENDELØS “The Chosen One” from the debut LP “From An Upset Word” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Mexican new wave /post-punk solo project Vacíos Cuerpos “Distancia” single
  
• Toronto-based Darkwave /Post-Punk duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Now I’m Cursed” off upcoming release “Heaven Is Closed”
  
• Strasbourg post-punk /cold wave trio HEIMBERG “It Keeps Me Up (All Night)” 2nd single taken from the album “Faceless” [Icy Cold Records]
• Detroit-based industrial /goth /post-punk trio Ritual Howls “Bad Idea” from upcoming sixth album “Ruin” [Felte Records]
• Neon – “My Blues Is You (DayVentura‘s Surgery)” off the edit LP “DayVentura’s Halloween Surgery”
  
• Brighton, UK post-punk /coldwave /synthwave project of singer, songwriter, music producer and long-time collaborator with Antipole, Paris Alexander “Breath” single
  
• Minsk, Belarus New Wave /Darkwave /Post-punk /Dark Electronic solo musical project by the multi-instrumentalist Anton Yeroma, aka Dusken Harmony “The Little Prince of the Night” single
  
• Melbourne-based post-punk /darkwave /electropop project of a former member of 80s band Real Life, George Pappas, aka ALIEN SKIN “She’s Here from “Cold Hand On A Glass Wall” EP
  
• Berlin-based EBM /Industrial /Goth /Coldwave /Synth Wave /Post-Punk solo project William Bleak “Bitter Ends” single
  
• Santa Cruz, CA-based new wave, post punk & synth pop duo Vandal Moon “High School Sucks (So Kiss Me)” single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy darkwave/ post-punk solo act The Spoiled “Obsession Thorn (A Copy For Collapse Remix)”
  
• Ithaca, New York industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /post-gothic artist Seeming “Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer” third single off the album “The World” [Artoffact Records]
• Paris-based synth-pop /synthwave /dark wave producer and composer Sydney Valette – “One Life (feat. Blind Delon)” off “Les Couloirs Du Temps” EP [Artoffact Records]
• Austria-based darkwave /synthpop /electronic solo project IVUR [Infraviolet Ultrared] “Strangelight (TGTB Remix)” from the upcoming “GAMMA Remixes” EP
  
• Toulouse, France indie dance /coldwave /dark wave /dark disco producer Akrav — “In Your Eyes” from V/A “OBERWAVE VOL. 7” compilation [Oberwave Records]
• German electroclash /house /techno /synth wave DJ-producer and Dina Summer co-founder, Jakob Häglsperger, aka Kalipo “ Any Compromises (Dark Version)” off the upcoming EP “Any Compromises” [Iptamenos Discos]
• Hamburg-based Swiss–German EBM /Electro/Techno /Synth Wave duo SIIE “Papier Glacé” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Brussels-based EBM /coldwave duo ULTRA SUNN “Golden Vein” from the sophomore LP “The Beast In You” [Artoffact Records]
• Madison, Wisconsin disco noir /synth-pop singer-songwriter and IAMX live band member, Carrellee “Like A Ghost (IAMX Remix)”
  
• Los Angeles goth/ dream pop/ electronica /darkwave singer, songwriter & producer Azam Ali “Synesthesia” from the LP “SYNESTHESIA” [COP International]
• French synth-punk /electro-pop /dark dance artist OZIBUT “Je tue des mouches” from the LP “Multifacette” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Los Angeles-based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine), BlakLight “Leave a Light On” from the upcoming album, “The Haunting of Us”
  
• Electro-industrial /witch house artist Deflexity “Confession” single [skyQode]
• German dark electro-pop band led by Georg Lenhardt and Arno Zillmer, 12 Illusions “The Libertine” single [Infacted Recordings]
• New York City synth-pop duo The Mystic Underground “Darkness Hides At Dawn” single [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Paris, France retro disco /synthwave /synth-pop artist Yota “At Night” single [NewRetroWave Records]
• German gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave solo act Mortes “Run (From our fate)” single [darkTunes]
• Mannheim, Germany industrial /gothic rock /darkwave solo project Endless Me “Elaine” single
  
• New Paltz, NY goth /post-punk /new wave duo Frenchy and the Punk “Dark Carnivale (Hi-Fi Hillary Remix)”
  
• Mexican gothic rock outfit led by Scarlet Elizabeth Rose, Scarlet’s Sinister Sister “Empty Bed” single
  
• Bogotá-based Deathrock /Post-punk 5-piece Dimensión Nocturna “El final” from “El abismo” EP [Discos Maraña]
• Sacramento, CA punk rock /deathrock /post-punk four-piece False Flowers “Another Lullaby” from the s/t mini-LP
  
• Albuquerque deathrockers, Funeral Process “Last Breath” off the debut LP “Decadent Decay”
  
• Gevelsberg, Germany atmospheric black metal /funeral Doom one-woman multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Vanessa Funke “Worthless” from the LP “Requiem”
  
• German pop punk /post-punk /art punk band (members of Les Trucs and Menschenrest), Die Steifen “Späte Mädchen” from debut s/t EP “Die Steifen” [George Korea / ichi ichi]
• L.A.’s wave /post-punk /synth-punk band Rearranged Face “The Witch’s Head” from “Rear Ranged Face” EP [Under The Gun Records]
• Turin-based Italian garage punk outfit SLOKS “Stab Me” from the 7-inch single “Flesh / Stab Me” [Goodbye Boozy]
• Nashville, Tennessee synth-punk rock band Snooper “Company Car” from the second LP “Worldwide” [Third Man Records]
• Madison, Wisconsin garage pop punk /rock n roll band led by Heather Sawyer (Hussy, XXX Piss), Heather the Jerk “Song For You” from “Very Motorcycle” EP [Goodbye Boozy Digital]
• Tintagel, UK fantasy synth /grimoire grooves /new age /wizard’s tower synth /dundeon synth project  Aura Merlin “Shapeshiftin” from “Moon Gates” LP
  
• Kazakhstan dark ambient /keller synth /dungeon synth project Warlock Corpse “Lanters of the Lost Souls” from the cassette album “Melodies For Ghosts” [Out of Season]
• Sweden dark ambient /comfy /fantasy dungeon synth project of Skeleton Mage as, Swordcerer “The Faerie Ring” from “Elfwitch” EP
  
• Rochester, NY comfy synth /emotional /fantasy /dungeon synth act Hermit Knight “path of glass” from “the translucent obelisk” LP