“Is Your Mind Split in Two?” — London Trio Black Doldrums Share Video for Dirgeful Single “Repetition”
“The doldrums” sounds like a dark room with no windows and no lights. You step inside, lock the door behind you, and extinguish the final seam of light beneath it.…
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“A Clean Version of Hell” — Analog Dance Descends Into Desire and Decay on Latest Album “Mind The Fall”
When we first heard Analog Dance’s recent single Fall Apart, the song seemed built from passion and pressure: a rigid beat marking the perimeter, bright synthesizers narrowing the available space,…
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Chilean Post-Punk Artist Diego Romo Shares Sensual Single “Are The Lovers”
Diego Romo’s Are The Lovers moves with the heavy, deliberate gait of something crawling out from beneath a nightclub after closing time, wearing somebody else’s leather jacket and carrying a…
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“Sympathy Is Never Free” — Pennsylvania Post-Punk Artist ZEU Unveils “Existor”
ZEU’s Existor is an album that begins with the sort of grand private wager rock records used to make before everybody became a brand manager with a ring light: one…
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Hunter as a Horse Confronts Serpents and Salvation in Video for “Paradise Lost” — Debut Album Out Now!
South African musician and vocalist Mia van Wyk has spent the past decade recording as Hunter As a Horse, or HAAH, releasing a varied succession of electronic dark-pop singles and…
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Swiss Quartet Lone Assembly Signs to Metropolis Records — Listen to Debut Album “Knots & Chains” and Watch Video for “In the Open”
“I’ve been wondering where your ache breathes, in mazes you design?” Metropolis Records has announced the signing of Swiss quartet Lone Assembly, whose debut album, Knots & Chains, was released…
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“There’s Nowhere Left to Hide” — LA Darkwave Project And It Was Night Shares Video for “What’s Beyond the Light?”
You carry the weight at night No secrets in the light There’s nowhere left to hide Exposed in the day exposed in the night Rani Sharone’s dark alternative solo project…
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“Ghosts to Dream Of” — An Intimate Conversation Between IAMX and Aux Animaux Ahead of the Recollections Tour
For more than two decades, IAMX, the solo project of artist Chris Corner, has occupied a singular, ineffable space within dark and alternative music, while at the same time managing…
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LA Darkwave Project Mellow Code Rebels Against the Machinery of Toxic Masculinity in Video for “Victory in Death”
American boyhood can resemble a long induction into somebody else’s war. Strength is measured by the ability to make others submit; tenderness is seen as a liability; and young men…
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Denver Goth Rockers Opium Confront Grief and Domestic Horror in Debut Video for “Dirge”
Opium carries mourning at a runner’s pace on Dirge. With their latest single, the Denver goth-rock and post-punk band threads funereal gloom through mounting panic, driving toward a fate that feels…
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