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

• Paris-based French New Romantic Synthpop /Minimal synth act Accident Sentimental “Direction Zanzibar” from the upcoming album “So Solitaire” via Objet Trouvé
  

After a 4-track EP at the beginning of last year, the Parisian duo announced their debut album, once again via the French collectors’ records label based in Berlin, Objet Trouvé, rife with an intoxicating oddball ’80s French-style wave / electro-pop sound, with an exotic, bright and romantic flair à la Elli & Jacno, Deux, Jad Wio, and Mathématiques Modernes. Vibrant and playful, “Direction Zanzibar” is driven by rumbling retro disco bass loops, topped by chiming melancholic keys and airy twisted lonesome synth melodies, fluttering around a dual male/female vocal interplay, injecting taunting vibes and dramatic sassiness into an electrifying dance floor addiction.

• London-based Greek dark wave electronic artist Night In Athens – “Anxiety” from V/A “Dystatik Synth Compilation” cassette compilation [DYSTATIK]

Greek DIY label presents the aesthetic of the world’s Synth music scene through some of the most significant artists and bands out there.

• Californian darkwave electronic artist Fornicata “Dead Inside” single
  

The low-key yet longtime noteworthy California musician conceives in the shadows haunting and sinister ambiences built on driving rhythmic menace, droning low end undulations and eerie abysmal synth depths to surround sad, introspective vocals, telling us to get a life because we are all dead inside, with lurking despair blooming into glows of hope.

• Los Angeles-based dark ambient /avant-garde /neo-classical /experimental vocalist, producer, and visual artist Megan Mitchell, aka Cruel Diagonals “Scintillation” off the upcoming LP “Calcite” via Beacon Sound
  
• Athens, Greek dark experimental minimal project by Nick D., DAS NOIR “When Push Comes To Shove (feat. Asylum Promises)” single
  
• German darkwave/ambient rock project of Frankfurt Am Main musician Thorsten Sudler-Mainz, Deep Imagination “Realm Of The Raven” single
  
• Hamilton, UK-based goth /darkwave project of Lea Torn, aka The Secret Experiment “Faded” from “Adrift In Pale Twilight” LP
  
• French New Wave /Coldwave project of Orson Wald, aka Villa Vide “A Departure” single
  
• Nancy, France Electro-Dark /Post-Punk /Coldwave duo Jesus Lives in Vegas “No More Shattered Clouds” off the forthcoming studio album, “Joy or Sorrow” via Meidosem Records
  
• Buxtehude, Germany new wave /dark wave /synthpop one-man project of André Grafert, Coloured Tears – “The silence in my head” from the album “Tear Apart”
  
• Ambient /cinematic /post rock /wave /dream pop /psych /dark electronic collaborative project of Amsterdam’s Marco Sterk (aka Young Marco) of trio Gaussian Curve and Berlin-based pop-auteur John Moods (The Zenmenn), aka Dead Sound “Force Of Nature” from the album “Into The Void” [Music From Memory]
• Berlin-based EBM /ethnic /percussive /psych /post-punk /indie dance /electronic project led by the French musician and producer Manuel Jesus, aka WWW (World Wild Web) – “Extase” off V/A ” The Blue Hour” EP 12″ [Thisbe Recordings]
• Berlin-based wave /minimal synth-pop /electronic duo Andrea Noce (Eva Geist) & Alexander Arpeggio (spAceLex), aka Andrea & Alexander “Taifun” from “Loved Up” EP 12″ [R.i.O. Label]
• UK cult 4AD post-punk legends The Wolfgang Press ( TWP ) “The 1st” from the first studio album i since 1994, “A 2nd Shape” via Downwards Records
  
• Italian lo-fi post-punk /minimal wave new project by Cristian Usai (Love of Consolation, Neomortoria), aka Paroxysm “Decadence” from the debut album “Before Christ” via Stanze Fredde Records
  
• Magnitogorsk, Russian post-punk /new wave /synthpop band Honeyfrequency – “Курьер” single
  
• Vienna goth /post-punk /synth-pop trio Color Of A Dead Channel “LAMIA” from the debut EP “Color Of A Dead Channel”
  
• Austin, TX goth synth electronic darkwave trio TROLLER “Today” (Smashing Pumpkins cover) via Relapse Records
  
• Italian EBM /Darkwave /Synth-Pop /Electro Wave solo project by Piero Cocozza (producer of Karma Shock and Dark Subway Religion), aka Synthetic Mushdrum “Leave Your Eyes” single
  
• Boston, MA based dark electronic dance music collaboration between longtime conspirators Reuben Bettsak and Bo Barringer, aka Ex-Hyena “A Secret to Protect” 3rd single from the Ex-Hyena album “A Kiss of the Mind” via Re:Mission Entertainment
  
• New York‘s retro-futuristic synth-pop duo Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander – “Via Negativa (in the doorway light)” title track of the 8th album “VIA NEGATIVA (in the doorway light)” via Dais Records
  
• LA based darkwave /electro-pop /EBM /electronic duo Sleek Teeth “Operating” single
  
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Broken” single via darkTunes
  
• California goth /industrial /electronic/dark wave artist Soft Vein “God Whispers” off the next sophomore album “Through Blinds” via Artoffact Records
  
• Portland, OR-based EBM /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic artist Conor Knowles, aka Dancing Plague “Days of Heaven” single
  
• Louisville-based EBM/darkwave/minimal synth/dark synthpop solo project of Kim Bell, Broken Nails – “Puppy Love” from V/A “Strict Tempo: Volume One (Part 1)” compilation LP via Strict Tempo, the dark alternative electronic event series, video podcast and record label based in Los Angeles, run by DJ Vox Sinistra
  
• London-based Greek dark wave electronic artist Night In Athens – “Anxiety” from V/A “Dystatik Synth Compilation” cassette compilation [DYSTATIK]
• French EBM /electronic /darkwave duo Potochkine “BI” single
  
• Naarm/Melbourne EBM /synth-punk /industrial music act Hackitt “Echos” from upcoming debut LP “Formless”
  
• Russian EBM /electro-industrial artist Alexey Mironyuk aka Velax “The Healer (Lobotomy Mix)” off next “The Healer” (Maxi Single) [Industrial Insights]
• Seattle-based industrial /EBM /house /synth wave artist Alfredo Lazaro, aka Perdí La Luz “Blue Car” off “Rusty Nail” EP [SYNTHICIDE]
• Leipzig, Germany dark electronic /synth-pop duo Devil Machine – “Living For Another Time” single
  
• Bern, Switzerland post-punk /coldwave /synth wave duo Crying Vessel “For What It’s Worth” 1st single from “Sepulchers – The Maiden” the heavier side of the early 2025 dual album release [Cold Transmission Music]
• Moscow based goth /darkwave /synth-pop duo, Dance My Darling “Sofia” single off the next LP “Funeral Service” via  darkTunes
  
• Stockholm-based new wave /synthpop /electronic duo HATIF “Broken Bucket” single via Town And Towers Records
  
• Ann Arbor, MI wave /synthpop act Same Eyes “It’s Too Late” single
  
• Danish Italo disco /synth-pop singer/songwriter Allan Levin Malling, aka Lucca Leeloo “Enter the Game” from “SAKAMOTO” LP
  
• Vancouver, BC goth /cold wave /post-punk solo project The Ruments “Dortmund” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ post-punk /dream pop /new wave duo Secret Attraction “Somewhere” single
  
• Russia synthpunk /synthrock /post-punk solo act РАЗНОСТЬ – “Бестия”
• Riverside, CA goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Perpetual Midnight “I Half Died” single
  
• Richmond, VA Shoegaze/Post-Punk /Darkwave one-man project INDUSTRIAL WAIST – “I’ll cut myself with roses” single
  
• Richmond, VA dark electronics /post-punk /darkwave act Petrified Entity “Seeing the Dead” 2-track single
  
• German Electronic-Gothic-Punk-Wave band urbandoned. “Faced Another Way” from “Never Again” EP
  
•  Baltimore, Maryland shoegaze/darkwave/ post-punk solo project, 4dversary “Behind You”                           
• French 3-piece Post Punk /Cold Wave band SINTHOME “Ailleurs Tout Passe” from the vinyl 12″ album “L’Ombre des Croix” co-released by Skank Bloc Records (FR), No Way Asso (FR) and Table Basse Records (CH)
  
• Vancouver, BC two-piece goth rock /darkwave /post-punk band DECOMME “Foreign Concepts” from the upcoming album “Sentiment”
  
• Gijón, Spain goth /folklore /punk /post-punk band Viuda “Provinciana” title track of the 12″ vinyl LP “Provinciana” via Humo Internacional
  
• Chicago, Illinois synth wave /goth rock /post-punk duo Miss Misery “Corvus” single
  
• Moncton, Canada-based Doom Metal /Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic “My Addiction” from “As The Empire Bleeds” EP
  
• Lisbon-based Portuguese Dark Wave /Post-Punk project Uncanny Chamber “death cards” single
  
• Philadelphia, PA goth /post-punk /deathrock /darkwave /synthpop duo R E P < > L ^ K N T “DOWN TO A LAST BREATH” from “TREMBLING” LP
  
• Bryansk/Moscow, Russia coldwave /post-punk band Predznanie “О​д​и​н​о​ч​е​с​т​в​о в с​е​т​и” single
  
• Madrid, Spain 4-piece experimental /darkwave /noise /post-punk band Somos La Herencia “Cenar de pie” from the album “Joven Predicador” via Humo Internacional
  
• Bristol, UK mid-80s post-punk /wave /gothic rock 4-piece band Fear of Darkness – “Lay Me Down” from the vinyl 12″ LP “The Bristol Goth Explosion​-​The 80’s” via Bristol Archive Records
  
• Berlin‘s psych /post-punk /art punks Plattenbau – “Held In A Curse” single via Deadstrange
  
• Berlin’s industrial /coldwave /post-punk band Das Nest “Second Tier” from upcoming cassette album “The Nest” via FUTURE SHOCK
  
• Buffalo, NY Post-Punk/Deathrock band BLACK & WHITE CAT / BLACK & WHITE CAKE “Slipping Away” from the upcoming debut s/t album via Swimming Faith Records
  
• San Antonio, Texas post-industrial /darkwave /doomwave duo Fantasy Trantham and Vidvad Scare (1/2 of Lessons in Purgatory), aka painstate “Demon Eyes” single
  
• West Germany wave punk /post-punk /düsterpunk trio KONTROLLE “Leseecke“ single from the LP „Grau“ via Holy Goat Records
  
• Leipzig, Germany Schlechtwetterpunk / Cold-Punk band Cold Summer “Existenz” from the first  “Altlasten” EP via Its Eleven Records and Kink Records
  
• Australian power pop /rock’n’roll /punk band founded by Kahlia Parker & Carsten Bruhn from Melbourne/Naarm, Licklash “Party Line” from the upcoming “Big Smile” 7″ EP via Roolette Records
  
• Washington, D.C. hardcore punk 4-piece Posición Unida “Ver El Da​ñ​o” from “Demo” EP
  
• Seattle, Washington Garage Punk /Rock and Roll band (FKA LYSOL), Fan Club “Get What You See” from the EP “Another Demonstration 2024”
  
• Barbagia, Sardinia esoteric dark folk duo band composed of Mauro Medde and Natascia Talloru,  Ilienses “Hampsicora” from the upcoming CD album “Jae” via Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music
  
• US dark ambient /black metal /old school dungeon synth project Erythrite Throne “The Shadows Moan in Torment and Ecstasy” from the cassette album “In the Moldering Ruins of Berith’s Once Majestic Tower” [Serpent’s Sword]
• Durham, NC dark dungeon synth project Nightshade Forests “Descending Into the Gorge” from the cassette album “Across the Forsaken Wilds” [Fiadh Productions]
• Mexican black metal /cinematic /dungeon synth project Hexcastle “In the Fierce Wind” from the LP “Odyssey in Times of War – Herald of the Morning Star” [Canti Eretici]
• Romanian dark ambient /old school dungeon synth act Borgo Pass “As Winter Weeps Frozen Tears” off the cassette album “Awaken the Shadows of Wallachia: Collected Works MMXXII” [Realm and Ritual / Forsaken Relics]