QUAL is the solo project of William Maybelline of Lebanon Hanover. Qual has been described by Post-Punk.com as William’s “meaner, darker, and nastier persona”. The word qual means pain in German. Since Qual’s 2015 debut release Sable, the project has been exploring dark and gloomy soundscapes of min..
Blablarism is Oksana Zmorovytch from Kiev. She creates a music elixir based on shoegazy ghosts and drone labyrinths.This is her first full LP and contains some older songs blended with new ethereal stories.The fact that she is from Kiev, affects her music, adding endless landscapes of grey, traditio..
"Time has taught us to follow our feelings and to serve our destiny."Ukrainian duo The Glass Beads bend back the hands of the clock with their timeless oeuvre, sorrowful yet sensual music, and bring&n..
With silent film cinematic aesthetics imbued with unique and 21st-century flair, Ukranian Coldwave Duo The Glass Beads invoke sorrowful sounds, both strange and sensual, on their debut LP Therapy, melancholic life stories focused on the search and struggle of trying to find your way as an individual..
Jean Lorenzo, known as Silent EM, fell into his solo project by chance. Before moving to New York City, where he now calls home, Jean had played guitar and bass in post punk and punk bands but found, upon his transition to a new city, he could create music singularly with synthesizers and drum machi..
Celebrating decade of she Past Away here is their first ever live release recorded at The Part Time Punks Session contains 8 songs performed live at Comp-NY Studio in Los Angeles in August 2019 first press will be released in 1010 copies of black vinyl plus on digipack cd...
Narin Yalnızlık, She Past Away’s second LP from 2015, was highly anticipated. Their first album, Belirdi Gece, introduced the Turkish trio’s post-punk sensibilities over danceable beats—a concoction of melancholy sounds that gripped the darkwave scene. With Narin Yalnızlık, Volka..
She Past Away’s international success has been no fluke: 2019’s Disko Anksiyete (which translates to “disco anxiety”), the third LP by the band, is just as heartbreaking and impactful as ever. It’s been four years since the release of their album Narin Yalnızlık, and SPA returns with a synth-soaked,..
There are only a few albums that could be cited as a pivotal moment in dark music over the past decade, and one of them would be She Past Away’s Belirdi Gece (which translates to “the night appeared”) from 2012. It could be said that the 2010s wave of the darkwave genre is defined by this LP, a monu..
As Selofan's fifth studio album, Vitrioli, from 2018, is a testament to the tragedy of life. The Greek duo, Joanna Pavlidou and Dimitris Pavlidis, who recorded the album in the Fabrika Records home studio, continue on in their poetic, but heartbreaking, music set to a dance beat. Between languages (..
Selofan is the greek term for Cellophane, a thin, transparent sheet, protecting items, keeping them fresh and allowing them to breathe while in storage. The music of the duo from Athens (Greece) is transparent, fresh and takes your breath away. It is strictly analogue, though alongside the synthesiz..
The second full-lenght of Selofan is worth wondering how so many music elements and different styles can be perfectly combined into a homogenous soundtrack. A trip back in time and yet so modern and individual. 12 new tracks of diverse music structures and moods, which reflect the maturation of this..