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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Boy Harsher Dances Away Heartbreak in 35mm Video for “Faulty” — New Album “Get Mean” Out Now!
Are we better off alone Will I come into my own Are we better off alone Being understood by someone is a comfort until the relationship ends and their imagined…
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Berlin Shoegazers Pretty Average Let Old Desires Dissolve in Their Video for “All I Wanted, I Forgot”
All the things I’ve seen, all the things I’ve been must upset you. Moving to a new city after a broken heart requires a certain faith in geography. Surely a…
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“Your Gaze Consumes Me” — Dark Synthpop Artist Hermidgets Follows Desire Into the Fire in Video for “Like Moths”
Learn how to pray for the pleasure of having nothing Here for you, so choose me, use me, lose me, until I die Love can make a person remarkably inventive…
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Turkish Darkwave Duo Ductape Confront the Slow Decay of Modern Life on New Album “Faded Flowers”
On the cotton candy sky Written every moment of life For all eternity Wonder why we are even alive Some records come from a scene, some from a city, and…
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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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Wisconsin Post-Punk Trio Whippets Share Necromantic Breakup Song “Not Dead” — New LP “No Skulls” Out This October!
In my head I am not dead A breakup is rarely finished just because somebody has delivered the closing speech. There are still arguments to rehearse, streets to avoid, and…
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“Every Freckle, Every Scar” — NYC’s Some Days Are Darker Explore the Anatomy of Obsession in Video for “Memorize You”
Love songs usually get nervous around obsession because nobody wants to admit how close the two can live together. Everybody likes devotion when it comes with flowers, candy, and clean…
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LA Synth-Pop Surrealist Geneva Jacuzzi Stages a Cosmic Cabaret in Video for “Nu2U”
Seduction gets complicated when one person knows the future, and the other is still getting accustomed to being human. Geneva Jacuzzi takes that imbalance to an entertaining extreme on Nu2U,…
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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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