Alice Teeple, Author at Post-Punk.com

“Mental Wormholes in the Night” — Soft Riot Channels Strange Transmissions in His Surreal Video for “Ghostwriter”

Mental wormholes in the night Strange ideas give a familiar fright Some phantom power pulling you back And onto a completely different track Jack Duckworth has spent years making Soft…

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Kontravoid Severs Expectations With Sinister Synthpop Single “Chances”

There’s always a moment when an artist with a reputation for electronic music severity discovers the cheap thrill of a perfect pop song, and Chances finds Kontravoid standing over the…

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Cyborg Amok’s Greg Bullock Confronts Mortality and Human Folly on Solo EP “26EP”

With every breath Thru muck and grime In every trek We write … Greg Bullock has spent enough time around darkwave to know that gloom by itself is cheap, and…

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“Pray For Me Tonight” — Anton and Tout Debord Share Video for French Coldwave Confessional “Répression”

Pray for me tonight Blinded by your light Stigmatize my mind Your lost paradise Anton, a Parisian post-punk project led by Anton Steinbock, carries itself with the severe romanticism of…

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NYC’s Kind Kid Dresses an Open Wound in Haunting Dark Synthpop Single “Bleed”

I went to bed I saw you there You shook your head It’s all out, where? There is a special cruelty in being wounded by someone who has already left…

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Turkish Darkwave Duo Ductape Confront the Slow Decay of Modern Life on New Album “Faded Flowers”

On the cotton candy sky Written every moment of life For all eternity Wonder why we are even alive Some records come from a scene, some from a city, and…

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NYC Darkwave Artist John X Belmonte Turns Regret Into Gothic Romance in Video for “Golden Lore”

John X Belmonte’s Golden Lore understands a basic truth about goth clubs, doomed romance, and every terrible decision made after midnight: grandeur works best when there is something embarrassing hiding…

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“Every Freckle, Every Scar” — NYC’s Some Days Are Darker Explore the Anatomy of Obsession in Video for “Memorize You”

Love songs usually get nervous around obsession because nobody wants to admit how close the two can live together. Everybody likes devotion when it comes with flowers, candy, and clean…

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“As Lonely as a Blue, Blue Star” — F You, Tammy! Celebrate 40 Years of David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” With an Unsettling Noir Video

Blue velvet But in my heart there’ll always be Shadows fall so blue as lonely as a blue, blue star Forty years after David Lynch’s Blue Velvet entered American theatres…

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Free from Concern Gives Everyday Dread a Deathrock Edge in “Anxious Existence”

Free from Concern comes staggering out of Hollywood with an abrasive, deathrock-tinged strain of post-punk and the understanding that a bad habit starts looking like a soulmate when it’s the only thing reliably…

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