Death Instinct – Silhouettes Pittsburgh’s Death Instinct fuse shoegaze and post-punk in order to produce their dark landscapes. Silhouettes has a bit of New Order’s In A Lonely Place about its person as barely audible vocals move in and out … Continue reading Post Punk Tuesday
Another day and another slice of post-punk from Canada. Maude is the twin song to December’s Corian and features some nice Peter Hook style bass lines amongst the synthesised beats. The words are mainly sung in the band’s native French … Continue reading Menthüll – Maude
A quick run through some of my recent “post-punk” fixes. A bit of a lazy post (sorry!) but gives me a chance to try out some of the other Bandcamp widgets as well as clearing some outstanding bookmarks! I have … Continue reading Post Punk Saturday Soundtrack
Ductape – Hata Labirent is the debut album from Turkish band Ductape and Hata is one of the enjoyable eight tracks it contains. It’s a fine darkwave album despite touching on some uncomfortable subjects such as those found on Wooden … Continue reading Post Punk Tuesday
If I said to you describe what you think post-punk sounds like I bet pretty much that the description would be similar to the music True Faith have delivered on their debut (mini?) album As Much Nothing As Possible. Slow … Continue reading True Faith – As Much Nothing As Possible
FrailruR come from the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany and, as the title may suggest, this is their debut release. On the evidence here it seems the band have a penchant for creating fine coldwave tunes which inspire references to … Continue reading FrailruR – I. EP
Toska Po Domu (Homesickness) is the side project of Konstantin Ostrovsky who also records as Kondratie. Whereas the latter is synthpop as dark as it can be the music here is vintage-sounding coldwave. The two tracks contained within are not … Continue reading Toska Po Domu – Okurki/Myasnaya Lavka
Suffering For Kisses – Change Tony D’Oporto aka Suffering For Kisses has always had a deadpan vocal style to run alongside his blend of moody inspired darkwave beats. But on Change he turns in his best vocal effort to date … Continue reading Post Punk Tuesday
Today’s post concentrates on compilations that will give you an instant post-punk collection and a playlist for a very dark and happy new year! Zeitgeist Vol. 15 Cold Transmission’s regular series is always an essential listen (and purchase) for the … Continue reading Post Punk Tuesday
Three very different acts for today’s Trio…… Suffering For Kisses – Innocence It’s Christmas so this dose of post-punk miserablism is just the tonic. Tony D’Oporto words and deadpan vocals work well against the harmonic synths whilst the guitars add … Continue reading A Monday Trio
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