Wasted Reflektions is NIA’s third album, which features nine songs and digs into the profound tranquillity that results from immersing oneself in the tumult of modern life. The frenetic synth-punk song Pale Rose, which features NIA’s cajoling and yelling over an electronic repeating beat, kicks off the album on the right foot. It has two extremely dismal tracks including guitar and ethereal, dark, or melancholy vocals like the Words Unspoken and Nightshades. Inspired by the late 70s synthwave the self title song Wasted Reflektions offers a cold minimalistic sound wrapped in whispers.
On this album, NIA experiments with more melodic vocals, yet several songs have a faster tempo that is clearly based in her punk heritage.
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Dive into the depths of darkness with “Pogranichnyi,” the latest coldwave/darkwave album from Скубут (Skubut). This captivating release explores the border between old and new, weaving haunting melodies and atmospheric soundscapes.
CD / Digital Album
Aarhus-based darkwave band Torch emerges from the depths, captivating audiences with their enticing, ominous, and freezing cold sound. Fusing Greenlandic and Danish influences, Torch weaves a tapestry of modern dark wave music, leaving listeners spellbound. Their arsenal consists of a cold drum machine, chorusy guitar, fretless bass, sharp synths, and distant, massive vocals, creating a sonic experience that lingers in the mind.
Drawing inspiration from gothic post-punk, melancholic cold wave, and hard hitting EBM, Torch invites you to expect distressing, longing songs, as well as bleak, hard bangers Their music immerses you in a world of haunting melodies and evocative rhythms, evoking a range of emotions with each resonating note.
LP / Digital Album
Pink Opake is pleased to announce the release of their new album “Matéria”. Drawing influences from post punk, coldwave, and minimal synth, the record features 8 tracks that embody the band’s distinctive sound.
Formed by Tatiana Meyer on vocals and synths, and Paulo Beto on programming, synths, and guitar, the band brings a unique energy to their compositions. “Matéria” is an album inspired by the love between the members, who are a couple, as well as the wave and dark electronic music with guitars from the 1980s.
CD / Digital Album
After “D’une Pierre deux Tombes”, a funereal and introspective album released in 2021, Opéra Multi Steel returns with its thirteenth studio album: “Les Passions tristes”.
The group remains faithful to the sound of the founding instruments that have made it unique since its beginnings. The evolution started on the previous album with the use of more electro rhythms and sequences continues. The pride of place remains given to the vocal melodies, synthetic pads and mechanical backgrounds created by the three musicians and which are a trademark of Opéra Multi Steel, sometimes tinged with recorders that sometimes bring a medieval hint. The band therefore evolves with constancy, without however denying its origins.
That said, the music, more up-tempo than on the previous album, does not engender a frenzied melancholy. OMS has always known how to keep distance from the members respective obsessions by mitigating them with a veil of irony and by sprinkling their songs with occasional or referential sound effects, some of them are directly linked to childhood, history, literature, cinema… OMS remains for its members the crucible in which they can mix their common or individual inclinations and their personal stories… The tragedy of some themes is never exempt from a certain dose of lightness in the tone… Some tracks could be easily danceable (Dites-nous, Tout en Tous, Tombés à Terre, Le Soleil est parti…) Some others are developing some more melancholic mood (A nos Moments perdus, Les Toiles…). Au grand Jamais with Catherine Marie as lead vocalist will bring back some memories from a previous side-project of OMS members called “O Quam Tristis”.
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