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

• Las Vegas, NV-based Korean shoegaze /post-punk /’K-goth’/ sadwave band, Past Self  “귀신 / Gwisin” from the “Premonitions” EP
  

Set on a frame of holistic lyrics that read like sacred poetry and use the many facets of lights and shadows to confront, accept, and hopefully harmonize the conflicting feelings of the human mind, the sophomore EP by Sin City‘s K-Goth Post-punk outfit unfolds vibrant layers of emotive chiming guitars filled with reverb and spectral synths, underlaid by profound ominous basslines and throbbing drum patterns, to sculpt moody, esoteric and introspective soundscapes, dancing in the shadows amidst desperation and enchantment, pain and beauty, taking the listener into the fragile and darker side of innermost emotions.

• Melbourne/Naarm-based coldwave/dark-wave trio No Statues “ALL WORKED OUT” from 2-track “DOUBLE SINGLE”
  

New double single from Melbourne‘s synth-heavy wave trio induces solitary forlorn dances driven by tight urgent rhythms, topped by spacey surreal shivering synth chords, stretching, swelling and fluttering desolately around cold, slightly hostile, sarcastic vocals, digging at a lost soul who thinks they have it all worked out, but they don’t. More anchored to the floor the introspective flip, adorned by reverb-filled guitar overlays and resonant wistful synth motifs, echoing layered vocals of sadness and regret.

• Gatineau, Quebec Dark Wave duo Gabriel and Yseult AKA MENTHüLL “Automode” single
  

Inspired by a night at House of Targ, Ottawa, the new Synthpop-French style single by the Québécoise duo bounces in ‘automode’ through snapping drum programming, New Order-like wistful low-end inlays, and glittering plucking synths, to surround carefree vocals, with a feeling of invisibility on the dancefloor.

• Turkish ambient /noise /ethereal /haunting dreampop project of Istanbul-born multidisciplinary artist Eylül Deniz, aka Sunfear “Daycare” from the second LP “All At Once” [Dark Entries]
• England‘s 90s gothic /wave /post-punk act Isabel Shrine “Never” single
  
• Berlin-based Russian experimental /post-industrial/ post-punk solo project, ROSA DAMASK “Adore You” from the LP “Adore You” [Downwards Records]
• Belgian coldwave /electro-rock /synth-pop duo Severine Cayron & Jerome Vandewattyne, aka Pornographie Exclusive “Invitation To A Suicide (John Zorn cover)” from the 2025 debut s/t album [Antibody label]
• Guernsey, UK new wave /minimal synth-pop band Seeing Red “Weekahead” from “Ice” EP 12″ (originally released as a 7” single in1985) [Dead Wax Records]
• Mexico City-based post-punk /gothic rock /darkwave band led by Carlos and Ernesto Carapi, aka Schrödinger “Heavenless” single [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Greece darkwave /coldwave /post-punk project Urban Space – “Calling My Name” single
  
• Québec City, Canada electropop /post-wave band Handful of Snowdrops “Alcyone” from the 6th studio album “Any Moment Now”
  
• London-based new romantic /dark pop /synth-pop duo of former Visage keyboardist Logan Sky and vocalist Steven Jones, aka Steven Jones & Logan Sky “Dark Thoughts” maxi single [Etrangers Musique]
• French post-punk /coldwave /synth wave project of Boris Völt (aka Mode In gliANY), Cinématique Inverse {IK} feat. Phantom Carbon “Renaissance d’un soupir” from “HuanaDenn” EP
  
• Belgian industrial /electro /minimal synth project of à;GRUMH… member Philippe Genion, aka Polar Praxis – (I Want) To Be Different” (1984) from V/A “Deep Entries : Gay Electronic Excursions 1979​-​1985” album [Dark Entries Records]
• Rome-based synth-pop /minimal wave duo Rawmance and Asymmetrical, aka La Nuit Je Mens ”Amores Perros” from “Teatro Del Metapresente” EP 12″ [Reach Another System]
• Binghamton, NY electronic /post-punk /dark wave /coldwave act Prosthetic Amygdala “Decroded” single
  
• Berlin-based Noise Rock /No Wave /Post-Punk act TON “Movement” 2nd single from the upcoming EP ”Rooms” [RE-TON]
• Vienna-based experimental dark wave /coldwave multi-disciplinary artist Marion Ludwig, aka RIO OBSKUR “Mit einem tiger schlafen” off of the EP “Hommage”
  
• Paris électroclash / synth pop duo ULTRAMODERNE “Mon bonbon” from the EP “Nous n’avons jamais été aussi vieux qu’aujourd’hui”
  
• EBM /Synthwave /Darkwave female solo project from Turkey, BEWITCHED AS DARK “Lines Of The Broken”
  
• Grand Est, France rural wave /synth populiste project Jungvieh “L’Exploitation” debut single
  
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /coldwave /synth-pop solo act Sinnerella “Tijuana Goth” single
  
• Sacramento, CA Goth /Wave /Synth-Pop /Post-punk band Creux Lies “Frozen” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ post-punk /darkwave indie electronic singer-songwriter Alex Okami “In the Dark (Corbeau Hangs Remix)”
  
• Portland, OR synth-pop /synthwave solo project Trisha Doe “Lost in the Trees” single
  
• Bose, Idaho post-punk /synth trash solo project Scry “Samsara” (2020 Demo)
  
• Los Angeles, CA dark electro-industrial music solo project Brood Faye “Me and Larry” from the album”The Tank”
  
• London, UK EBM /industrial /darkwave act The Ghost Aura “Nihilism” second single
  
• Mexico City psych /dark wave /synth-pop electronic solo project of electronic music producer, composer writer and singer Fernando Lerma, aka FNDO “Murci​é​lago” last single from the album “Dark”
  
• Norway dark synth-pop artist Fabbrica 82 “Darkness (Fabbrica remix)” single
  
• Bienne / Lausanne, Switzerland DIY post-punk /techno /cold wave /synthpop /electronic project, Vivement la fin | VLF “Numéro 19”
  
• Marseille new wave /minimal electronics /electro-pop solo project of Celluloide‘s keyboardist (aka Member U-0176), Thee Hyphen “Seeing Blind v2​.​02” from the remastered edition of the 1998 album “Organique” CD [BOREDOMproduct]
• Portland, OR industrial /EBM /cold wave /minimal synth electronics project of Nic Hamersly, Ortrotasce “I Dreamt Of Loving (2023)” from “Recall (Crashed Tracks)” EP
  
• Berlin-based Italo house /acid /EBM /trance duo Zanias & Neu Romancer – “Supersacrificial” from V/A “Anthology : part I & II” LP [Ritmo Fatale]
• Colombian via New York dark analog synth pop artist Daniel Olarte aka Fiero “Vuela Vuela (Rework)” (1991 Mexican cover of French singer Desireless‘ 1988 “Voyage Voyage” hit single) [SYNTHICIDE]
• Italian EBM /proto-funk /synth punk /sex wave duo from Umberto Cavalloni and Giacomo Stefani, aka SLF IMG “Sex” off “Chiodi” EP co-produced and mixed by Luca Venezia (Curses) [Ombra International]
• Berlin-based dark disco /new wave /electronic /synth-wave project of duo Local Suicide and producer Kalipo, Dina Summer “Hypnotized” single from the second LP “Girls Gang” [Iptamenos Discos]
• Omaha, Nebraska goth /synth-pop /post-punk solo project Ex Lover “Angel” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY avant-pop /synthpop duo Strange Flesh “Chaos Hearts” from “The Hardest Thing to Burn Is the Heart” LP
  
• Bern, Switzerland post-punk /coldwave /synth wave duo Crying Vessel “A Taste I Can’t Deny” single from the Sepulchers – The Servant side of their upcoming two-disc album [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• New Jersey-born alternative rock /new wave /synth-pop artist and multi-instrumentalist, Diane Luckey, aka Q Lazzarus “Goodbye Horses (New Wave Version)” from Aridjis Fuentes’ documentary film score “Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture)”(1985/1995) [Sacred Bones]
• Asheville, NC goth /electronic /synthpop /darkwave artist ANDERS MANGA “Hollow” single
  
• Texas dark wave /post-punk /synth-pop solo project Night Ritualz “Vida (feat. Vick Vapors)” single
  
• Berlin-based German–Turkish synthpunk artist Güner Künier “Cash Cash Exercise” first single from the second album “YARAMAZ” [Flirt 9]
• German 80s post-punk /new wave /NDW /neue deutsche welle band FEX “Subways Of Your Mind (Remastered Demo Mix)” (1983) off the official vinyl reissue of “Subways Of Your Mind (Like The Wind)” 7″ EP [The Outer Edge]
• Finland goth /darkwave /post-punk solo project Colossal Rains “Futile” single
  
• Florida Goth /Post-punk solo act Last Grasp “Vermouth” single
  
• German post-punk /indiewave /postwave solo project, A Transition “Dark White Lies (edit)” single
  
• California new wave /post-punk solo project The Organic Dogman “Courage” from the LP “Cort​è​ge”
  
• Lille, France goth /new wave /post-punk band Nivalis “Comme le Vent” (FEX cover, 1983)
  
• Seattle, WA post-punk /darkwave solo project Only Monsters “Eye for an Eye” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY shoegaze /goth rock /darkwave /post-punk band None Shall Remain “Out Of Time” single
  
• Montpellier, French dark wave /synth /post-punk duo BUZZKILL “Bonfire” from “BUZZKILL – I” EP [Ganache Records]
• Nottingham, UK post-punk /new wave band, In Isolation “Light In Darker Times” title track of the CD EP “Light In Darker Times”
  
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop duo Nightsister “My Own Grave” from the debut album “Part Of Me” [Violet Hour Transmissions]
• Mc Allen, TX gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk band Coven Of Guilt “Garden Of Teeth” from 2-track  s/t single
  
• Berlin-based Goth /Industrial /Dark Wave /Post-Punk solo act William Bleak “Out Of Grace” off of “Traumazone” EP
  
• Hamburg-based psych /indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze band Grundeis “Plain Sight” from the new album “Every Second an Ocean” [Undressed Records]
• Brooklyn, NY dub /post-punk collective Naked Objects “Blanks” title track of the new EP “Blanks”
  
• French 1986 formed new wave /coldwave /post-punk trio TROUBLE FAIT’ ”The Meeting” single
  
• International gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk band formed in 2006 by multi-media artist Justin Curfman, Feeding Fingers “Model Lives and Fallen Leaves” from the LP “Against the Roses”
  
• Naarm/Melbourne, Australian-based post-punk outfit featuring members of Pleasure Symbols, Bcharre بشرّي, Armour, Zipper et al, Promaja “A Call To Arms” single from the forthcoming LP “Bravo Brava” [Symphony of Destruction]
• Atlanta, Georgia deathrock band Whiphouse “Dementia” off of “Sleep / Dementia” single 7″ [slaughterhaus records]
• Queens, NY goth /industrial /no-wave /post-punk band Reduction Plan “Hide” from the LP “Patmos” 
  
• Paris, France garage /noise /new wave /post-punk trio JAZZ VOST “La Viande g​â​t​ée” from “Jazz for Your Soul” EP
  
• Perth, Australia punk /power pop /rock’n’roll solo project Pleasants “Sick Sad Situation” from the upcoming 7″ single “Losing Streak​/​Sick Sad Situation” [Under The Gun records]
• Richmond, VA noise /post-punk /punk trio Tentative Decisions “Jawbreaker” off debut album “Public Access” [Sockhead Records]
• Mexican spiritual Experimental/Psychedelic/Darkwave /Post Punk trio, Neolin “Invidencia” single
  
• Leipzig, Germany post-punk /punk /’lavendic death rock’ band New Adults “Neighbor” from “Listen To New Adults” LP [U-Bac / FLENNEN]
• Reno, NV KBD Punk band ROTARY CLUB – “ITU​-​D” from the “Sphere Of Service” LP 12″ [IRON LUNG Records]
• San Francisco, CA industrial /gothic /synthpop trio Of What Remains “This Christmas” [retroreverbrecords]
• York, UK ambient /folk /classical /gothic rock band Papillon de Nuit “Amber” second single
  
• London Ambient /Fantasy /Dungeon Synth act Weary Traveller – “A Forest” from V/A “Knights Don’t Cry: A Dungeon Synth tribute to The Cure” LP cassette [Rusty Pilgrim]
• German Dark Ambient /Fantasy /Dungeon Synth duo Gilgareth “Rahja” from the LP “Litchboten” tape [Dale of Shadows]
• Quebec ambient /fantasy synth /medieval /dungeon synth fact Ivernal “La B​ê​te C​é​leste” from the album “Les Disparus”
  
• US dark pagan ambience /blackened dungeon synth act Lone Sentinel “Twilight of Ragnar​ö​k” from “Twilight of Ragnar​​​ö​​​k” LP tape [WereGnome Records/Hammer & Flail Recordings]