Post-punk/coldwave heroes Boy Harsher have been riding high with their latest album 'Careful', released back in February. The perfect soundtrack to any steamy club or after the club moments, the pair have unveiled the video for their single 'Come Closer'. Directed by Muted Widows, the trippy visuals feature Iphi Douleur, Emily Hendrix and Sara Cummings interacting in a hedonistic fashion.
Istanbul band Jakuzi are gearing up for the release of their new album 'Hata Payı' which is out April 5th on City Slang. As the release date rapidly approaches, the band have unveiled the video for their track 'Toz'. Enlisting Eli Kasavi on the direction front, the stylishly shot vid is a continuation of Jakuzi's 'Şüphe' which originally displayed an interaction of dancing between a couple and featured Jakuzi front man Kutay Soyocak standing off to the side simply observing in a doubtful manner. For 'Toz', Soyocak now alienates himself in a room of flashing lights and continues a dance solo. Have a look.
Berlin-based post-punk band The Underground Youth have unveiled another single entitled 'I Can't Resist', which leads up to their new album 'Montage Images of Lust & Fear'. The slow-burning track begins with a minimal haunt before kicking into more of an upbeat call and response style chorus with fuller instrumentation helping to pump the BPMs.
Detroit band ADULT. have released their new album 'THIS BEHAVIOR' via Dais Records. The pair have also shared the latest video to their third single 'Silent Exchange'. Directed by the group themselves, the visuals were shot in an icy forest and features singer Nicola Kuperus stylishly dressed whilst crawling in the snow.
Coldwave duo Boy Harsher have unveiled the official video for their smoking hot track 'LA'. Directed by Kathleen Dycaico and Jill Ferraro, the story revolves around two lovers who film themselves having fun and romping around in the bed whilst onlookers watch via streaming. They eventually head to the woods with a shotgun to shoot at a television displaying themselves.
Massachusetts band Boy Harsher will release their new album 'Careful' on February 1st, 2019 via their Nude Club Records imprint. The duo have also shared the video for the second single release entitled 'Fate'. Filmed in Glasgow and directed by Bryan M. Ferguson, the blood fest visuals feature a woman who's listed as missing, strolling the streets after performing a series of murders, the woman seems to go about her business in a calm and collected fashion.
If the music of his previous band Virgin Kids represented a sonic explosion of youthful urgency pushed by fiery punk and garage rock, as a solo artist CC Honeymoon's current sound is an introspective journey examining love, lust and more, powered by seducing pop, electro and new wave rhythms that are hypnotically gripping. Having released his lush debut single 'Part Time View' actually under the moniker of CC Honeymoon a couple months back, his follow-up track 'In The Night' is a hedonistic and passionate voyage into the experience of the physical connections between two. What could be the soundtrack of a dark, exclusive club full of erotic activities or just a room in a flat where two bodies meet, the song is a pleasurable trek through image-provoking sound. In a way, CC Honeymoon reflects the idea of liberation - a freedom to organically create, a freedom to be that of the most organic and pure. Only just the beginning of this musical travel as a solo act, we're all up for taking the ride.
Over the years there have been a resurgence of the post-punk, industrial, synth and new wave sound that groups like Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails helped to foster into the mainstream psyche. However, it is a rare feat at times to actually come across bands who are trying to push the sound further rather than simply fostering a carbon copy version of the previous groups mentioned. However, when Berlin-based Lea Porcelain came on the scene back in 2015, there was something very other about the pair. Songs such as 'A Year From Here' and 'Out Is In' straddled between melancholic electronica, krautrock, post punk and things in between.
Whilst Swedish artist Dennis Lyxzén has made a name for himself with Refused, it should be noted that his past project The (International) Noise Conspiracy is also worth checking out. However, Lyxzén's third band INVSN are three albums deep (which include LPs two LPs under the previous Invasionen moniker) and are showing no signs of slowing down.
Berlin duo Lea Porcelain cannot do any wrong in our eyes at the moment. Releasing some of the post potent post-punk tracks over the past year, the pair will finally drop their debut album 'HYMNS TO THE NIGHT' on June 16th. The announcement follows Lea Porcelain's Bruce Springsteen cover 'Streets of Philadelphia', in which a video was recently posted. Recorded in Berlin’s FUNKHAUS, the process was spread throughout a two year period.
