Darkwave
SEE: Post Coal Prom Queen – ‘Salt’: a cool, dystopian synthpop opener
FORMERLY the creative heart behind L-space, the electronic alt.pop outfit who released three albums from 2018 up to last year, Lily Higham and Gordon Johnstone have cleaved away into a new creative zone as Post Coal Prom Queen, although on this evidence it would seem their intent to seduce with airy siren sing and dark synthetic …
TRACK: IYEARA bring the darkwave to Mark Lanegan’s ‘Playing Nero’
IF THERE’S any musician out there currently writing and recording who you can say has absolutely lived it, that accolade must surely go to former Screaming Trees man Mark Lanegan. His gravelly, seductive voice graces a body of work that never ceases to explore and which expands steadily. And the latest chapter in Lanegan’s oeuvre …
Album Review : Drab Majesty’s ‘Modern Mirror
Drab Majesty creates in light and dark. There’s the Gothic chill of Pornography-era Cure and the synth pop lift of early OMD, Talk Talk, and Animotion. Deb Demure started Drab Majesty while still drumming for Los Angeles experimental rock band Marriages. Donning white make-up and a white wig Demure hides all traces of some bloke …
Album Review : R. Missing’s ‘Unsummering’ EP
There’s both a quiet cool and a dark tension that permeates R. Missing’s EP Unsummering. Even in their promotional material it says “You won’t find love songs here. You’ll find unloved songs. You won’t find summer, you’ll find Unsummering.” Now if that’s not enough to convince you of something dark and mysterious what will? Maybe …