Lebanon Hanover - Tomb For Two (2013)

 

I have to say, the first time I heard this duo I was instantly blown away. Haunting female vocals over drum machine, minimal synth backgrounds, modern coldwave at its very finest. This band captures what French coldwave was yet reinterprets it into something new and exciting. They're a German duo, married couple, and I read an interview with them saying they listen to nothing but Malaria! and Neue Deutsche Welle. Out of all of the current bands doing this sound, I dare say they are my favorite. 

(UPDATE: Hotfile has been shut down, which means I've lost all of my old uploaded files. I will probably just move on to another uploader and not attempt a time consuming re-upload)

Tomb For Two

1. Sadness Is Rebellion
2. Your Fork Moves
3. Stahlwerk
4. Hall Of Ice
5. Gallowdance
6. I Believe You Can Survive (Elegy For The Introvert)
7. Tomb For Two
8. Autofocus Has Ruined Quality
9. Midnight Creature
10. Invite Me To Your Country

She Past Away - Belirdi Gece (2013)

I know very little about this Turkish darkwave band, but this album is absolutely amazing despite the grammatically incorrect album title. Get dark.

Belirdi Gece

1		Sanrı / Hallucination
2		Ritüel / Ritual
3		Monoton / Monotone
4		Kasvetli Kutlama / Somber Celebration
5		İnsanlar / People
6		Belirdi Gece - Musallat / The Night Emerged - Haunt
7		Ruh / Spirit Lyrics By – Charles Baudelaire
8		Kemir Beni / Gnaw At Me Music By, Lyrics By – Replikas
9		Bozbulanık / Murky Grey
10		İçe Kapanıs / Escape Within

Malaria! - Compiled (2001)

I've been searching mercilessly for this band's albums on the internets.  I've finally found it and I have to share, because it's some awesome post-punk/experimental stuff.  Malaria! hails from Germany and they're associated with the Neue Deutsche Welle scene.  In other news, I got my first copyright violation from the file sharing service I use.  It came from a band that I totally didn't expect to have any problems with posting.

Compiled

1. How Do You Like My New Dog 2:45
2. Kaltes Klares Wasser 3:45
3.Geh Duschen 4:14
4. Zarah 3:20
5. Your Turn to Run 4:11
6. Thrash Me 4:05
7. You You 4:25
8. Dabo 2:15
9. Geld/Money 4:00
10. Leidenschaft/Passion 3:55
11. Eifersucht/Jealousy 3:09
12. Einsam/Lonesome 2:55
13. Macht/Power 3:30
14. Tod/Death 3:55
15. Mensch 2:40
16. Gewissen 3:10

Death In June - NADA! (1985)

Death In June are an English neo-folk/post-punk band.  For some reason this record is really hard to find even on the interwebs, so I'm a little scared of posting it (the internet police are everywhere).  This band is controversial for their use of Nazi imagery.  I wouldn't get too worked up about it.  The lead singer is openly homosexual and they've collaborated with various ethnic Jews throughout their long history, they've also played in Israel and sported an Israeli flag on their webpage.

Much has been made of the origins of the name Death in June. It is sometimes considered to be an allusion to the Night of the Long Knives Sturmabteilung purge on June 30, 1934, or alternately to the 1914 assassination in Sarajevo that helped spark World War I. However, "Death in June" is actually a mondegreen, Pearce has said that he once misheard Patrick Leagas during a rehearsal and he "heard" it as "Death in June" and settled upon this chance mishearing. The group then subsequently applied it to the project in 1981. Pearce has stated that the name does not express any single idea for him and remains multifaceted [1].

  NADA!

1. "The Honour of Silence" - 3:17
2. "The Calling (Mk II)" - 5:32
3. "Leper Lord" - 1:13
4. "Rain of Despair" - 4:21
5. "Foretold" - 4:49
6. "Behind the Rose (Fields of Rape)" - 2:46
7. "She Said Destroy" - 3:32
8. "Carousel" - 4:46
9. "C'est un Rêve" - 3:24
10. "Crush My Love" - 4:13

VA - Songs for Fucking (2013)

Tired of having sex where you are awkwardly pumping away at your significant other (or you're the receiving participant of said sexual activity) in ominous silence with nothing but the artless grunts and demure moans of pleasure filling the air?  I know I am.  So I made this mix of some of my favorite post-punk/darkwave/gothy bands that I can bust my proverbial nut to.  Its so good that I felt it necessary to expose it to my general audience (all of you people still clicking on some link that takes you to my anti-anti-fluoridation article, seriously that article generates most of my traffic).  So when you are making sweet sweet romantic love to somebody and you have a premature orgasm to The Velvet Underground's Venus In Furs, think of my smiling, disembodied floating head behind your lover staring at you.

Songs for Fucking

1.  Beach House - Lover of Mine
2.  Sferro - Reverie
3.  Chromatics - Hands In The Dark
4.  Kraftwerk - Computer Love
5.  The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
6.  Moev - In Your Head
7.  The Glove - Mouth to Mouth
8.  Jo Lemaire And Flouze - Voices In The Silence
9.  Wild Nothing - Midnight Song
10.  Craft Spells - You Should Close The Door
11.  Blouse - Time Travel
12.  Joy Division - Atmosphere