8 recent gems from the dark spectrum, from dark wave to cold wave and from minimal synth to post punk, and everything in between as long as its “bleak”. Essential for every “creature of the night”!
London based artist’s latest single is a fine dark wave/synth pop mixture with shoegaze-y feel, that features mixing by Jorge Elbrecht (No Joy and Kirin J Callinan) and was inspired by Drab Majesty…
This one is the first track by the Aussie outfit with Maggie Alley on vocals, an uncommon amalgam of indie electronic, ethereal pop and gothic rock…
‘R.I.P.’ is taken from Milan-based solo project of Cristiano Ballarini, Cris-T’s debut album, and it’s a bleak mix of new wave with dream pop…
French producer & outsider of the electronic scene John Lord Fonda, recently released a stunning EBM/electro pop track in which he collaborates with Gabriel Afathi (from The Georges Kaplan Conspiracy), & is about hope; seeing again one day those we have loved, that we have lost forever and who, in return, ask us to believe.
American retro-forward music project’s most recent offering is a great mix of dark wave and (alt) pop, like an imaginary jam of The Cure with Duran Duran!
German mysterious darkwave entity DARK continue(s) to impress us with the spotless, dark, authoritative aesthetics and the 10nth single ‘SKELETON DANCE’, which is a homage to the entire gothic subculture, couldn’t have been an exception to the rule…
An absorbing dark pop/post punk hybrid with a remarkably vulnerable vocal performance “about the human struggle to live an authentic life while waking up to the inner and outside influences that prevent that liberation from happening”…. Looking forward to the upcoming full-length album, ‘Hidden Hotel Rooms’, due out later in 2022…
Another sonic delicacy “made in Iceland”! Ethereal, wave and electro are genuinely matched to create a captivating result… Let the “black hole devour you”…
Christos Doukakis