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Category: Goth

Post-punk in black.

Records: ANS Electronic Music (1969), Attrition (2024, 2025).

8 March, 20258 March, 2025 Esoterica, Goth, Industrial, Record 0

Reissued Soviet synthesizers and a triumphant return for old-school industrials.

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Justine Ó Gadhra-Sharp: Sídhe (2022).

2 March, 202319 March, 2023 Goth, Record 0

A nicely varied EP from a veteran of the New Zealand goth scene.

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Records: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).

23 March, 202223 March, 2022 Goth, Industrial, Record 0

Is this thing on? Have a couple of records.

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Records: Cortez (2018), Statiqbloom, various goths (2019).

8 July, 20198 July, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Metal, Punk, Record 0

The review pile is full of alternative buttrock industrial.

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Boy Harsher: Careful (2019).

3 February, 20193 February, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

Darkwave disco. I’ve been hanging out for this one, and I’m thoroughly delighted. You will be too.

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Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from A Broken World) (2017).

7 January, 20198 January, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 1

For those most familiar with the classic synth-pop Gary Numan, this will be quite different. For those who have followed Numan in the past thirty years this is not a surprise.

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Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.

21 December, 2018 Esoterica, Goth, Industrial, Links, Post-Punk, Punk 0

What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.

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Reviews: Aboleth, Zanias (2016, 2018).

23 August, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Metal, Record, Rock 0

Writing about music is the most ridiculous notion, and the review pile is only getting larger. So I’ll give just embedding players and mumbling something a go. This works for me, and that’s the important thing.

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The Cascades: Diamonds and Rust (2017).

23 April, 201824 April, 2018 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 0

While the rest of the world moves, changes, shifts, reshapes itself, and discovers irony you can always return to the comforting refuge of goth rock.

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The Frozen Autumn: The Fellow Traveler (2017).

14 March, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Are you into synthpop? Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?

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Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).

21 January, 201821 January, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.

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Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.

2 December, 2017 Goth, Industry, Jazz, Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More fun in the big world.

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Reviews: The Big Sun (2016), Autumn (2017), Snog (1992, 2017).

9 November, 20179 November, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Suppose I’d better cut the pile down a bit again.

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Reviews: Elektrostaub, The Frozen Autumn, Nervenbeisser (2017).

18 September, 201719 September, 2017 Dance, Goth, Industrial, Metal, Record 0

From the review pile, some forthcoming releases from Echozone.

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Reviews: Marsy, HYTS, Dreams Are Like Water (2017).

20 August, 201720 August, 2017 Dance, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Time to go out looking for interesting new things.

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Hante: Between Hope & Danger (2017).

18 August, 201718 August, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Record 0

The icy ocean at night, calling you to the sea.

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Seeming: Sol (2017).

4 August, 20179 September, 2018 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Record 0

A song-oriented post-industrial album from three years’ close obsession.

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Purple Fog Side: The Discord (2017).

3 June, 20173 June, 2017 Dance, Goth, Industrial, Record 0

A Russian band who call themselves goth and play trancy techno pop on an industrial label.

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Alixandrea Corvyn, Amongst Animals, Near Death Experience, Tangerinecat — Dublin Castle, Camden, Thu 4 May 2017.

5 May, 201710 May, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Live, Rock 1

I automatically staked out my life-long spot at stage right, leaning on the PA. I grabbed this spot in 1985 and shall not relinquish it.

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Reviews: Amyl and the Sniffers, Bestial Mouths (2016, 2017).

16 March, 201716 March, 2017 Goth, Punk, Record 0

St Kilda cowpunk and electro goth rock.

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Reviews: Traitrs, Vanguard (2016, 2017).

21 February, 201722 February, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Angsty guitar post-punk and angsty EBM half way to Hi-NRG.

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Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).

15 February, 201715 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Guitar post-punk in black and grey.

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Reviews: Quimper, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl (2016, 2017).

7 February, 201712 February, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Yes, that David Lynch. He does music too.

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Essays by Post(Graduate)Punk: Crass, Sisters of Mercy, Psychic TV.

4 February, 201723 March, 2022 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

Essays, pointers and rambling opinionation on UK punk and post-punk.

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Post-punk in black: Posh Lost, Masquerade, 1919 (2016).

3 February, 20173 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 0

New style, old style and old returned.

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Electro pop: Cyborgdrive, Lebanon Hanover , Katja von Kassel (2016, 2017).

1 February, 20171 February, 2017 Dance, Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

The sounds, the rhythm and the pop structure. Three good finds today.

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Synthpop reviews: Cloud Spell, Cavendish Laboratory, Seaofsin (2017).

25 January, 201725 January, 2017 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Minimal synth dreampop, extended instrumental noodling and EBM dancefloor.

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Reviews: The Pineapple Thief, Trance To The Sun, Scandinavia (2016).

8 January, 201729 March, 2017 Goth, Indie, Pop, Prog, Punk, Record 0

Let’s get the guitars out again.

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Reviews: Rose and the Diamond Hand, Venus Hum, Hand In Waves (2016).

28 December, 201628 December, 2016 Goth, Pop, Record 0

Goth rock, electronic pop and witch house.

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Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).

4 December, 20164 December, 2016 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.

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