Singles Archives — Page 5 of 131

Society of the Silver Cross Join Blood and Sun for a Gothic Folk Pilgrimage on “Temple Hymns Volume Two”

Oh, holding on to yon and bitter falter Endless yearning weaves its web Among the forest, sheltered by her alter To be free, to be free Society of the Silver…

View Post

Seattle’s The Phantom Eyes Shares Video for Darkwave Cover of DEVO’S “Puppet Boy”

There was always something faintly threatening about DEVO, even when they were dressed like escaped laboratory technicians and making middle America wonder whether Akron had been contaminated by industrial runoff.…

View Post

Barcelona-based Dark Synth Duo VILLANELLE Slip Under the Skin in Video for Debut Single “Infrarosso”

Infrarosso Se mi guardi, cambio forma Come fuoco nell’oscurità Infrarosso Barcelona-based duo VILLANELLE have figured out something plenty of club records forget while staring lovingly at their own machinery: rhythm…

View Post

“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…

View Post

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…

View Post

“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…

View Post

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…

View Post

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…

View Post

“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…

View Post

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…

View Post