Weekly Post-Punk / Darkwave / Dark Synth Tips – OCTOBER #42-22
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Emilia-Romagna, Italy Electronic /New Wave /Post-punk one-man underground project (Fka La Fuga), NOTTE “Senza te, senza me” from the first 2-track single “Chissà cos’è” a preview from the upcoming album “Dark”
Brand new nome de plume, Notte, for the one-man underground Darkwave project from Italy, who wields haunting and buzzing icy cold synth melancholy with lonesome guitar riffs, to evocatively encompass emotive spoken word vocals, delivering deep introspective esoteric poetry through an haunted yet enlightened darkness of hopelessness and dread.
- Toulouse, French coldwave /post-punk solo project – [trait d’union] “Dans tes yeux” from the second single ‘2’
With a moody and powerfully emotional approach to the machine-driven Electro Wave sound, the enigmatic French act builds two dramatic, dense and bouncing slices of swirling gothic-tinged Coldwave through heart racing rhythm patterns, bleak undulating basslines, effected piercing guitar strains and icy bright epic synth shivers over urgent haunted and anguished breathy vocals. Earnest and poignant, somehow Coldwave has rarely been so warm.
- Tampa/Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /dark synth wave collaboration GULF BLVD x NIGHT WOLF “Apparitions” single
Florida darkwaver teams ups with Californian ‘lone wolf’ producer to inject trancey dance-floor drive and cinematic Retro Synthwave swirling intensity through thudding marching rhythms that compel dark morbid obsessions into ominous buzzing domains, lit by dazzling and fiery synth passions, swarming, churning and shivering around cool sensual magnetic vocal confessions, promising adoration and warmth during the cold sleepless nights of Fall’s doomy omens.
- Dresden, Germany neo-classical solo project Val Atra Niteris “Dead Silence” from the album “Vobis”
- Australian neofolk act Sun Vessel “Seeking Always the Silence” single
- Netherlands dark ethereal project of musician, composer and singer (member of Lethian Dreams & Remembrance) Carline Van Roos, AKA Aythis “To Autumn” (inspired by John Keats‘ poem) from the EP “Samhain”
- Finland/Argentina dark ambient /synthwave /witch-house /darkgaze collaboration Crystal Cage + MORGVE “Enemy” single
- The Hague, Netherlands one-woman experimental /analog dark synth project Dim Garden “Minuit Sonne” from the cassette album “Elle Tombe La Lune” on Tanzprocesz
- Brussels based, Marseille born experimental /techno /post-punk /wave /synthpop artist Naomie Klaus “Mitsubishi” from V/A “BRUINE PERSISTANTE II – PART 1 – Face A & B” compilation on Demord Enregistrements
- Rome-based Italian experimental /synth-punk solo project of Sicily-native Cristina, aka MARIA VIOLENZA “Siculo Sabbath” from the vinyl 12″ album “Capelli di Caténe” on Kakakids records
- Long Beach, CA lo-fi minimal synth /post-punk /darkwave /coldwave solo project, Nights Templar “Downtown Loft” from “October Gray” EP
- Quebec lo-fi /electronic /synthpop solo project of MD (ex singer/guitarist of duo Calomine), Nœud – “Tes idoles” single
- German electronic /kaldt disko /coldwave /synthpop project of Harry Haller from Essen, FOKKER “There is Energy in Despair”
- Kendal, UK early-80s inspired, synthpop/ new wave /futurist /synth new project from darkwave artist Klaus Devore (AKA Claustraphobia), AKA The Love and Torment “1983” first single
- Northern Irish analog synth electronic musician based in Belfast, Crystalline Stricture “Dead Things” from the new album “The Mountain” on TONN Recordings
- French electro synthwave artist Alex Sindrome – “Faith In Reverse (feat. Dawn Blackbird)” first single from the upcoming album “EJECT” due November 2022.
- Lima, Peru EBM /industrial /synth-pop /electro-punk trio Varsovia “Diseñar y destruir” title track from the sophomore album “Diseñar y destruir” on Buh Records
- El Paso, TX post-punk /synthpop solo project Aerophone Ghost “InAllTheOldFamiliarPlaces” from the debut EP “AerophoneGhost”
- Swedish post-punk /darkwave /new wave /synth electronic duo from Sundsvall, RED MECCA “Disco” single on Massproduktion
- French New Wave /Dark Wave /Coldwave duo Love in Prague “Insight – Stephen Hague mix” (unreleased)
- Antarctica cyberpunk /darkwave /gothic rock /synthwave solo project Drug Tzar “Code::Crypt” from the digital version of the limited 2-song “I Am The Night” demo tape.
- Indianapolis darkwave /coldwave / post-punk band ANGEL-MAKER “Cold Night” (Single Version)
- Seattle, WA based Synthpop /Coldwave /Post-punk /Darkwave solo DIY project Festering Wounds “So High So Low”
- Tampa, FL Synthwave act The Night Office “Light as Ghosts” single
- Post-punk /Darkwave /synthwave project, Erich Zann’s Excess – “Clad In Ivy” from the debut EP “Necromosa”
- Ocala, Florida post-punk /new wave duo COLD EYES “Waste Of Time” single
- Limoges, France goth darkwave / industrial / synthpop artist L[u]Myia Dark “Dolorosa Soror” from the live album “PORNOROMANTIQUE (one take record)”
- Berlin-based Minimal Wave /Synth Wave /Darkwave duo Lee & Laudarg, aka NNHMN “Love is dead 2” (re-edit)
- London based Balearic /disco /acid house /electronic project by brothers Liam and Luke May (Trashmouth Records), Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London/Warmduscher) and frontman Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), aka DECIUS “Show Me No Tears (feat. Lias Saoudi & Maggie the Cat)” from the forthcoming album “Decius Volume I” on The Leaf Label / Trashmouth Records
- Los Angeles dark electro-punk project formed by primary artist Angie Padilla aka Pogo Pope, with recent addition Maxwell Henderson (of BATHHØUSE), aka Bustié “Design the desire ft Hether Fortune” single
- French darkwave /synthwave /electronic project of Sébastien Carl from Bordeaux, HØRD “Challenger One” from the upcoming album “Sciences” on AVANT!
- French electronic /darkwave /synthwave solo project NAM’S “I want you dead” from 7″ vinyl EP “Chaos” upcoming on Lux Rec
- Zürich based New Beat /EBM /Synth Wave /Techno producer (half of GOTT), Scannoir “Get Ready (but sorry)” from “Through My Silence” EP upcoming vinyl 12” on Frigio Records
- Sidney based new beat /darkwave /coldwave project of Marc Dwyer, AKA Buzz Kull “Dancing With Machines” from the upcoming LP “Fascination” via AVANT! Records
- Parisian dark electro wave duo Minuit Machine “Follower” from the upcoming album “24” on Synth Religion
- Sacramento, CA minimal /darkwave /coldwave /synthpunk solo project of John Anton Malinowskj, aka EX-HEIR “Paradox” from the album “Body Scum” on Body Muzik
- Italian EBM /Industrial band Zeitmachine – “Dead Bodies” from “Sipirtus Nequam” EP on Darkitalia
- L.A. post-punk /electro-punk solo project of visual artist, songwriter and musician, Colin Ambulance aka BITE MARX “Tea Drinker” single.
- Prague, Czechia-based synth wave /synthpop trio Lakeside X “Time Has Come” from the omonymous single/EP
- Fayetteville, Arkansas goth /post-punk /synthpop solo project Damien Hearse “Hell” title track from the second EP “Hell”
- Post-Punk /Goth band based out of Sacramento, CA. IN RETROGRADE “Strait of Messina” title track from the new EP “Strait of Messina”
- St. Petersburg based post-punk /darkwave trio, Blind Dreams “Better Days” single.
- Barcelona based Gothic/ Post-Punk /Deathrock trio Malefixio “La Sombra” from the upcoming album “Magia Ceremonial”
- Pizzo, Italy post-punk /new wave /darkwave band ALONE IN THE RAIN “sulle ali del vento” from the EP “Contaminazione”
- French dark synth /coldwave /darkwave solo project from Liverdun, Cold Grey Rain “The End Of Faith” new single
- French post-punk /synth-punk /coldwave solo project Christian Suicide “Besançon RPS (remix party suicide)” from “Besançon” single
- Parisian Indie Rock /Post-punk /Coldwave duo Berverly Hate “Sonne En Moi” from the debut EP “Symptomatique Rivage” EP on March3 Noir
- Athens, Georgia Post-punk /Goth Pop band, Vision Video – “Death in a Hallway” off Vision Video’s second LP “Haunted Hours”
- Barcelona‘s post-punk /dark electronic /darkwave 3-piece NOVENA SENDA “Reflejo” off the debut album “Laberinto De Voces”
- Los Angeles darkwave /synthwave /new wave band FEVR “I can’t do it no more” single
- Berlin-based Argentinian Goth /Synthpop /Darkwave solo project Deus Ex Lumina “The Wolf (Welcome To My Halloween)” single
- Costa Rica post-punk /new wave 5-piece DYSTT “Crisis” single
- Russian new wave /synthpop duo SYNTHESE “Eat Spaghetti feat. Minimal Unit” from the debut LP “Keen Sense”
- Paris-based industrial /noise rock /post-punk /wave new project of former Bad Pelicans Lucas Lecacheur, AKA Château Rouge “Au Bal Masqué” from the demo album “Cornus Sanguinea” on CHRYSANTHEM records
- French Alternative /Post-Punk /Dark Rock solo project HURLENOIR “Monarque (Live Session)” extract from the Hurlenoir’s album “ACHROMARIA” feat. Carline Rochat
- Mysterious German punk /synth /post-punk act (members of Benzin, Pigeon, Liiek, Ostseetraum), D.B.R. “Colour Me Impressed” from the cassette EP “Boogie Nights” on Urticaria Records and Flennen
- Saint Petersburg indie /post-punk duo Брысь – “Новая планета” single
- German lo-fi /coldwave /post-punk solo project German Bot “Nebel” single
- New York based new wave /post-punk solo project Postlooperish “Colder” from the EP “Mirror Tears”
- German–Ukrainian instrumental dark wave /synthpop solo project (aka Moloch Totalitarianism), Danylo Kovalenko “Edge of the Abyss” single