Singles Archives — Page 6 of 131

“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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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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“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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“Feel All Your Frequencies” — Primitive Heart Revisits a Love That Unravels Time in Video for “Slingshot”

Feel all your frequenciesI want to crawl into youTake time with my fantasiesI want to be there with you Memory is a curious ghost, because what it haunts is not…

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Danish Post-Punk Artist In Atlas Gives the Devil on Her Shoulder a Say in “Tears, Poison, Desire”

There’s a kind of idiotic joy in doing the thing you know might end with blood on your shirt, a phone call at 3 a.m., or somebody asking what in…

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LA New Wave Artist NYIKO Searches for Meaning and Connection in the Modern World on Second LP “Fate” — Watch Video for “Neighborhood”

A moment in adulthood arrives, sooner or later, when your childhood neighborhood starts looking like a movie set built from memory: the curb seems smaller, the houses fake, the corner…

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“Just put up pictures when I’m lost” — Romance is for the Dogs in Montreal Duo Modern Friend’s Latest Single, “Pictures”

Love songs have spent a century turning devotion into a virtue simply because somebody found a chorus for it. Modern Friend’s Pictures takes that old bargain and puts a collar…

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Desire or Obsession? — Dark Pop Artist Midniter Puts Longing Into Motion in Video for “I Could Love You”

Don’t you know I could love you better Be your release when you’re under pressure All that you hold, we could hold together I could be, I would be if…

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