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

Charles De Goal - Algorythems (1980)

This French post-punk/coldwave band was undoubtedly named after the French President Charles de Gaulle, one of the few senior French military officials to oppose the armistice with Germany—during World War II—right from the beginning. The band plays a fantastic mix of coldwave and post-punk, switching between drum machine and live drums indiscriminately, even sometimes in the middle of tracks. They're still a band (albeit with a long hiatus), have put out many records, and still play shows. After a few listens, I've become a huge fan.

Algorythems

1. Exhibition 
2. In the Labyrinth
3. Synchro 
4. Man-stone 
5. Radio on 
6. Hang on to yourself 
7. Frederic 
8. slowdown on the highway 
9. Modem

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

Ascetic: – Self Initiation (2013)

The Australian post-punk/gothic rock band Ascetic: have an interesting way of describing themselves which invokes ambiguity and curiosity.

Drawn from a collective obsession with fringe philosophy and post-new-age consciousness...

Looking at one of the member's Facebook, he has Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche listed along with a few other philosophical books. GOD IS DEAD.

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

Sad Lovers & Giants - Treehouse Poetry (1991)

As the Portland fluoridation debate begins to heat up as the date of the vote lies ominously near, here's some some English post-punk to soothe your intellectual nerves.  I've gotten into a few actually worthwhile debates with anti-fluoride people since attaching a pro-fluoride button to my vest.  I honestly expected to have crazy hippies yelling at me about how fluoride is "poison", but overall most people listen and have an open mind, which is pleasantly surprising.  The extremely vocal anti-fluoride people on the internet are happily a small minority.  Anywho, Sad Lovers & Giants are a recent find (contributed by my band mate and post-punk enthusiast friend Justin Cory) and I've been enjoying them immensely.

 Treehouse Poetry

1. Toy Planes in a Southern Sky
2. Lizard King
3. Still Restless
4. Parachute of Love
5. Christmas on Easter Island
6. Criminally Sane
7. Jungle of Lies
8. The Sky is a Glove

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

Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army (1978)

I've been on a post-punk kick lately and have been mildly obsessed with Gary Numan (it's happened before).  This often overlooked first record by the Tubeway Army features all the staples of Gary Numan greatness: science fiction themes, classic analog synths run through guitar pedals, and angular rhythms.  This record is also decidedly more punk than Numan's later solo output, but still has the obvious signs of what is to come.  Gary Numan has also been an outspoken atheist for much of his career, although he has some interesting contradictory beliefs (go figure) made clear in this Fortean Times interview:

FT:  You are on record as being an atheist... does that rule out belief in other kinds of strange phenomena for you?
GN:  I believe in pretty much everything apart from God. I believe aliens are real, demons, possession, poltergeists, all of that. I believe in ghosts but I do not believe in Heaven; to me, a ghost is just one of nature’s tragic mistakes. They shouldn't be there, but they are. It does indicate some kind of life after death, but that has nothing to do with a Heaven. If you believe in one God creating everything then I don't understand why the idea of many Gods is so laughable. None of the God ideas make any sense to me but one God is perhaps the most ridiculous of all.

So you believe in demonic possession but don't believe in God or deities?  How would demons manifest without a theological system to assert their existence?  Unless they were independently asserted demons divorced of their theological sources, the beliefs would be contradictory.  You're a fucking weirdo Gary Numan, but I love you.

Tubeway Army

1. "Listen to the Sirens" – 3:06
2. "My Shadow in Vain" – 2:59
3. "The Life Machine" – 2:45
4. "Friends" – 2:30
5. "Something's in the House" – 4:14
6. "Everyday I Die" – 2:24
7. "Steel and You" – 4:44
8. "My Love Is a Liquid" – 3:33
9. "Are You Real?" – 3:25
10. "The Dream Police" – 3:38
11. "Jo the Waiter" – 2:41
12. "Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)" – 3:12

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (1987)

"I think religious belief is some sort of mental illness, some sort of unrecognized schizophrenia. Your mind is so freaked-out, so fucked-up by the thought of dying and nothingness, that it just invents heaven. It's a weird area, religion."- Jim Reid, vocalist/songwriter of Jesus and Mary Chain

Darklands

1. Darklands
2. Deep One Perfect Morning
3. Happy When It Rains
4. Down On Me
5. Nine Million Rainy Days
6. April Skies
7. Fall
8. Cherry Came Too
9. On The Wall
10. About You