The things he never told you about
Free floating secrets he couldn’t get out
If you want he can tell you these dreams and what they mean
Some inheritances aren’t objects or stories but patterns: habits absorbed quietly, almost by accident. A child grows up watching a parent move through sorrow with a drink in hand, noticing what is said and, more powerfully, what isn’t. The silence becomes its own language. Questions linger in the corners of rooms; explanations never quite arrive. Over time, the unspoken settles into muscle memory, shaping reactions, fears, even desire. The child doesn’t mean to mirror the father, yet finds familiar impulses rising anyway, as if the past were a current running steadily beneath the present.
Spain-based darkwave/post-punk duo Newborn Ghost have joined forces with producer Nightcrawler for a new collaboration about this particular generational curse, a stomper of a number called Incubator. It feels like a calculated collision – two projects fluent in tension, deciding to test the tensile strength of steel.
Incubator thrives on that shared discipline. Mechanical rhythm locks in, synths sweep wide like a camera pan across concrete, landing somewhere between Siouxsie, Suzi Sabotage, Boan and Front Line Assembly. There’s club energy, but also a chill that lingers at the base of the spine. Drawing from horror and sci-fi atmospheres, EBM, darkwave, and post-punk minimalism, the collaboration blurs the line between club energy and dystopian soundscapes.
Lyrically, the track circles inherited damage. A father’s alcoholism. Secrets sealed too long. A child watching, absorbing, repeating. The song treats trauma like a living organism fed in silence, passed through blood, reborn in the next generation. The beat becomes the pulse of that repetition, steady and relentless.
You can dance to it. You can dissect it. Either way, Incubator makes its case with cold clarity: history always mutates.
Out now via From Hell to Disco, listen to Incubator below and order the single here.
Nightcrawler has been building his electronic world since 2011, pulling inspiration from horror reels and sci-fi soundtracks, shaping it into a body of work that stretches from Metropolis and Beware Of The Humans to more recent releases like Dynamics of a Crash. He was even featured in the synthwave documentary The Rise Of The Synths, narrated by John Carpenter – no small badge of credibility. His productions move between industrial drive, EBM severity, and darkwave cool, and his live shows turn venues into fevered film sets.
Newborn Ghost began in Philadelphia in 2017, formed by BelaFern and Everrett Thompson, later relocating to Barcelona and adding bassist Fluggel Josh. Their 2021 release To Make a Flower as Sharp as a Knife earned serious underground praise, and 2024’s DEVASTATION/divinity sharpened their edge further. Along the way they’ve shared stages with Xeno & Oaklander, Suzi Sabotage, and Ductape, building a reputation for precision and pressure rather than spectacle.
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