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Los Angeles Artist Syd Sikes “The Grey” EP Delivers Hazy Dreampop and Poetic Delirium

Los Angeles-based artist Syd Sikes sheds the synth-pop shimmer of his 2023 debut, Phantom, to unveil a starker vision in The Grey. This five-track EP trades lush hooks for lean…

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The Divine Comedy Returns with the Video for Epic Tableaux, “Achilles”

Look to the starry skies, Achilles Look to the silver seas They do not live or die, Achilles And neither do we Achilles, sea-born and doom-bound, remains myth’s most mythic…

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Seattle Darkwave Artist Mutual Shock is Lost in a Labyrinth of Concrete in the Video for “Destroyer”

We enter each relationship as architects and archeologists. building while unearthing, shaping while sifting through shared histories. At first, we speak in future tense, laying foundations from laughter and longing;…

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Industrial-EBM Project Viva Non Releases Atmospheric “Natural” EP

For nearly a decade, James Hofer has journeyed under the moniker Viva Non, his path evolving from synthpop’s nostalgic shimmer to a more introspective, restrained sound. His latest EP, Natural,…

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Retro-synth Resistance — French Coldwave Artist Larsovitch Releases Second EP, “Normal’No”

Larsovitch was born in the artistic factory Friche Mimi in Montpellier at the end of 2020. The premise was quite simple: to compose dark yet danceable music, using old machines…

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Greek Post-Punk Artist Theodoros Makes a Dark Entrance With “Every Day I Die” Solo LP

May one day this delusion end Maybe we believe in us Pictures from another life Shadows from another past Every Day I Die marks the stark solo emergence of THEODOROS,…

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Hauntings, Heartbreak, and Decay in Januarius’ Collection of Lo-Fi Post-Punk Ballads, “Glass Eyes, Glass Ghosts” — Plus Interview

Glass eyes, content with their darkness, cast off the fire we harnessed. Though we’re worlds apart, the wire’s stripped bare. Could we save a spark from your electric chair? Since…

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Bootblacks Return with a Sultry Sax Solo in Their New Wave Single “Only You” — Featuring Chris Vrenna and Benjamin Harrison

What have you lost? You don’t have to say Is it love? Doesn’t have to be that way There is a silence that sits heavier than thunder…a stillness that waits,…

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Montreal New Wave Duo Nümonia Ride The Neurotrain Through Their Hypnotic Synth Reverie “The Age of Nümonia”

The two travellers sit motionless in the empty compartment as the silver neurotrain glides silently through electronic space. Blue and white lights blink slowly in the blackness outside the window,…

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Modele’s “Pleasure For The Holy” is a Pilgrimage Through Oldschool Post-Punk, Goth Pop, and Dark Alt-Rock

You take the pleasure and the pain we’re holding It brings me back to the holy one I saw the devil and he told me everything So take these chains and…

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