AVANT! Records: Koban – Abject Obsessions

Koban - Abject Obsessions

Koban is a young duo hailing from Vancouver, Canada. They had their first album out on Broadway To Boundary back in 2013 but it really was their 2014’s EP on Weyrd Son that got our attention.

Now their second full-length is ready and with it Koban achieved to extend and improve the great results of their previous Vide EP.

Cold yet catchy dark post-punk driven by caustic drum machines, featuring French-speaking female vocals and English-speaking male voice, powered by synths and guitars as sharp and dangerous as a rusty blade.

Elegant 4-side Digipak limited to 200.

Posted on June 16th, 2016 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: DRIFT – Black Devotion

DRIFT - Black Devotion

Black Devotion is the debut release by new London‐based act DRIFT.

Already founding member of the synth/wave trio Phosphor and currently in the shoegaze duo Leave The Planet, young and talented Nathalia Bruno started her own solo project once the band split up after the Youth and Immortality LP back in 2013.

Listening to DRIFT one can tell now how much Nathalia influenced Phosphor back then and at the same time a personal evolution is clearly in full sight. Needless to say Depeche Mode and HTRK, Slowdive and Cocteau Twins exercise some influence here, but Nathalia is shaping her own way to those sounds that bands as Tropic Of Cancer and Northern Electronics’ Född Död have also been pursuing.
There’s a brighter component to DRIFT’s music visible both in shiny tracks like Grave and Hard to Accept as in the more ethereal Dreams in Silkscreen and Say it Right. Featuring six songs, Black Devotion marks the birth of what Nathalia herself calls devotional synth. Purity in drifting.

Listen and order here.

Posted on January 18th, 2016 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: Horror Vacui – Return Of The Empire

Horror Vacui - Return Of The Empire

[hȯr'r vakyüe] DIY death rock from Bologna, Italy. Punker than dark, darker than punk. We call it Vampire Punk because we are punk rockers with a strong D.I.Y. attitude that play dark music.

Listen and order here.

Posted on August 6th, 2015 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: Black Bug – Frozen Energy

Black Bug - Frozen Energy

This 7″ is the 8th release from Black Bug (seen on Hozac Records, Red Lounge Records, Burning Hell Records, Disordered Records and Boom Chick Records), a Swedish synth punk duo now based in Bordeaux, France.

Listen and order here.

Posted on August 4th, 2015 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: Qual – Sable

QUAL - Sable

Vile visions, despaired in a frowning black tower of pain. Concealed yearns of a desolate heart, trying to scratch that unscratchable rotting itch from within. Centuries of sorrow drenched in gloomy electronics that palpitate like human passions.

A call for help,
Qual.

Listen and order here.

Posted on August 2nd, 2015 under Releases, ,