Alice Teeple, Author at Post-Punk.com

Remembrance of Things Lost — London’s The Melancholy Hours Drifts Into the Dreamscape of Ambient Shoegaze EP “In Saudade”

Musician Thomas Bagnoli has long worked in the shadows of experimental collaboration, but The Melancholy Hours marks a turn inward: an exploration shaped by quiet pressure rather than grand gesture.…

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NYC Ambient Artist Rafael Anton Irisarri Confronts the Cold Glow of Disconnection on “Breaking the Unison”

Rafael Anton Irisarri’s life has always carried the hum of elsewhere. Born in Puerto Rico, raised in the uneasy slipstream between San Juan and the mainland, he grew up with…

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Pittsburgh Post-Punk Outfit Painted Dog Release Twangy Debut Single “Midnight City”

Pennsylvania post-punk outfit Painted Dog began as a private experiment in a Pittsburgh bedroom, where songwriter James gathered scraps of melody and late-night impulse into rough sketches. Those sketches soon demanded more…

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LA-Based Australian Post-Punk Expats Death Bells Brush Against the Soul in Video for “Shiver”

What you said of patience Burned into my brain Leave your body bare and muddied I love you all the same Sometimes it’s only a brief brush of a hand,…

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Looking for Trouble — Detroit Post-Punk Trio Ritual Howls Take a Nocturnal Drive in Video for “Bad Idea”

I played my lucky number You do as you please If you keep looking for trouble It’s gonna find you in your sleep Ritual Howls tend to dwell in the…

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Ethereal Darkwave Trio Mercury’s Antennae Slip Into the Subconscious With Their Video for “The Veil Opaque V.2”

“The veil is lifted and set free…” There are works that move softly lit, half-remembered, touched by the strange liminal hush between waking and sleep — and Mercury’s Antennae have…

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A Clubnight Unfolds like a Cinematic Dream in Italian Darkwave Act Concrete Noir’s Video for “Shadow in My Veins”

Florence’s Conncrete Noir unfurls their latest album Romance Ruins with the steady confidence of someone who has spent far too much time wiring together their own inner machinery. There’s no…

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Düsseldorf’s SixTurnsNine Drifts, Crackles, and Soars in Dusky Trip-Hop LP “Soul Glitches”

Sun is exploding, into my head the other seems faraway, out of my threat black turns into white, white turns into black the strangest feeling, that I ever had There…

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Industrial Artist s:cage Draws From the Ritual Fires of Matsu-age in the Video for “Into ASH”

A slow burn singes the edge of into ASH, the new s:cage piece built around Stephen SETO’s vivid fragments from the Matsu-age Fire Festival in Hanese Village. Flames surge, bones…

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Italian Duo Ignis Absconditus Conjures Dark Fire with “Transfiguration,” the Title Track from Forthcoming LP

You can almost smell the ozone when Ignis Absconditus hit the first note of their latest album, Transfigurations. It’s the sound of a band dragging their past behind them like…

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