Rolling 2015 Goth / Post-Goth / Darkwave / Dark Neopostpunk / Deathrock etc. etc. Thread!

I can't believe there wasn't a 2014 Goth thread! I missed that thread so much I decided to turn over a new (dark) leaf in 2015 and make sure we had a new thread this time around.

Here's some new year stuff I'm already digging:

https://medium.com/@theskysgoneout/theskysgoneout-7d7644170664

What are you digging in this cold, dark, January? Anything you're looking forward to?

I'm still savoring the new The Birthday Massacre album. (http://open.spotify.com/album/6pC9Vai0Q9DpmehuEaXLF3)

I haven't picked up a Birthday Massacre album in awhile. But just listened to "Beyond." They've aged pretty well, thinking they would probably fit in well with the current wave of synth-pop acts like Chvrches.

i mentioned them on the rolling post punk thread but i'm really enjoying these, fairly heavy gothy tinge in both

https://anywave.bandcamp.com/album/dream-for-the-fall
https://population.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-pale

I like the Schonwald! Thanks for the heads up on that.

This Yabanci album is from 2014 but I just got into it (and the label has some goth/postpunk stuff on it worth checking out):

http://swissdarknights.bandcamp.com/album/grimorium

Early Siouxsie or Xmal Deutschland vibes.

From December, I like the Tarcar EP on Blackest Ever Black. It's more of a dubby, weird electronic thing but this track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBFF8Nla54

This thread is mostly old stuff but I think there was a couple of new things in there
research into Ethereal Goth and Dreampop (and other stuff for fans of early 4AD and Projekt)

local(ish) gothsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3TqKsFq4I

I actually just found a 7" by them, really good stuff.

Pretty nice.

Surf Siouxsie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6Y7C4hbOc

Wow, that's great!!!

i don't want them to turn into savages :(

If you like your goth stuff noisy, experimental and with psychedelic influences, check out Big Debbie (formerly Little Debbie):

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BIG_DEBBIE/AB-RA-CA-DEB-RA/

If you can get over the name it's really good stuff.

these guys killed it in my basement last night. so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Th_rEonmDM

Holy crap! Just checked in and that Makthaverskan single is immense! Thanks!

Running a spotify list for this thread now. Keep em coming.

Rolling Goth 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

I would certainly add something from Screature's new album "Four Columns," and the song "No Will" by White Hills (though the rest of the album isn't really like that song).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEubTfwEK2M

Also, if "Wyoming" by Heather Woods Broderick has come out on Projekt Records in the 1990s, nobody would have blinked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qcrxTUdkiI

Obligatory Chelsea Wolfe mention (mostly for Fork's list):

Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46u_Ggsub1A

Screature is opening up for Lydia Lunch's band in SF in a few weeks fwiw

i've got a backlog of tracks to add to this thread over the coming weeks.

i'll start with this track, from Tarcar - unfortunately not on Spotify.

Tarcar - Eija
https://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/tarcar-eija-blackestusa001
ethereal dark dreamwavepop, with cascading cocteau twins guitars

Bernard & Edith, released their brilliant debut album Jem in May

Bernard & Edith - Crocodile
https://open.spotify.com/track/226RQ2vSkS3bB7ppxijfal
Cocteau Twins inspired dream ethereal exotica

Keluar, one of the best contemporary electronic darkwave bands, (they took my track of the year award in 2013, with Fractures.)

they are back with a new ep, including these 2 tracks

Keluar - Panguna
https://open.spotify.com/track/15raZmhIMZZ9CKQdkRMnrG

Keluar - Volition
https://open.spotify.com/track/10RTfgQr7ge6uKffq1JRNd

Mushy is back with a new track in 2015, that i previously mentioned on another ilm thread

Mushy - Song of Diamonds
https://soundcloud.com/mushyyy/song-of-diamonds
sounding like a female fronted ethereal slowcore talk talk circa spirit of eden
- not on spotify yet

Dark Neopostpunk track

City Calm Down - Rabbit Run
https://soundcloud.com/iohyouparty/city-calm-down-rabbit-run
track i mentioned on rolling post punk thread, sounding like mid 80s echo & the bunnymen. their debut album is coming later this year, in the meantime check their tracks on soundcloud / spotify !

Shame that Tarcar track is vinyl only. I'll have to await the inevitable full-length. I also noticed that compilation also has a new Tropic of Cancer track on it.

Keluar is new for me, just picked up the EP, thanks for the heads-up!

Also - yes, I too greatly anticipate the new Chelsea Wolfe, tracks I've heard so far are pretty great.

earlier this year Black Mare and Lycia released a split single

Black Mare - Low Crimes
https://open.spotify.com/track/266VoQNzX0wFXCGisXGgkh

Lycia - Silver Leaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/55NaWXwysykuFKVyIVgyp7

soundcloud link via: http://www.cvltnation.com/exclusive-cvlt-nation-streaminglycia-silver-leaf/

Very excited that there's also a new Lycia album next month.

The Black Mare / Lycia split was, indeed, very good! Glad to hear Lycia has a new album coming out, though I hope we'll see more from Black Mare soon too. "Field of the Host" was one of my fave dark goth-y records last year.

Oh, and your wedding may be Goth, but it isn't "having Cold Cave cover The Cure's 'Plainsong" in a giant Irish mansion" Goth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHqf1dHuNNw

Who knew Tony Hawk had it in him?

http://www.stereogum.com/1816242/hear-cold-cave-cover-the-cures-plainsong-at-tony-hawks-wedding/mp3s/

Not new but didn't know what thread to put this on.

Anyone know this guy? Seems quite odd. Collaborated with lots of other gothy guys.

http://www.davidewilliams.com/
http://davidewilliams.bandcamp.com/

2 exclusive new Lycia tracks streaming on these websites, from the forthcoming Lycia album: A Line That Connects

Lycia - Blue
http://www.popmatters.com/post/195500-lycia-blue-audio-premiere/
blog post Written by ilm star A. Begrand !

Lycia - Monday is Here
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2015/7/6/streaming-lycia-monday-is-here
very atmospherics / ethereal track, glacial echoey guitars

Lycia, motivated after 2013's excellent Quiet Moments, have returned with A Line That Connects, a startingly fantastic record that brings back memories of Lycia's mid-'90s triumphs (like The Burning Circle and Then Dust and Cold)

the best Joy Division impersonation of the year / this decade? award goes to: In Letter Form

In Letter Form - Reflecting the Rain
https://soundcloud.com/inletterform/reflecting-the-rain

track on spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rX4sGBFxCfheZ8E8HQo0o

check: intense deep Ian Curtis type singing
check: Hooky style basslines
check: joy division type swirly synths
check: strong rhythmic drumming

In Letter Form

Eric Miranda (vox/synth/guitar) James Levis (guitar) Peter Dosanjh (Bass) Andres Lopez(Drums)
San Francisco, United States

I see Ned lives in SF these days, he should check them out live.

Sounds like the Wild Swans or possibly Men Without Hats

Just came across this band...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3TqKsFq4I

this group is playing at my store tonight. should be fun!

http://www.thefader.com/2015/06/08/toupee-mommy-is-a-mummy-video

New Wax Idols in October!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=89&v=NYwgc75LuDk

The new Lycia "A Line That Connects" is out!

Also, the new Publicist UK album!

https://www.mixcloud.com/secretthirteen/s13-burning-the-existence/

Can't listen to that whole podcast, is there a more comprehensive track list anywhere? Because I love that first track.

I hope I can get a CD of the new Lycia album.

If you follow the link from the mixcloud description to http://secretthirteen.org/s13-burning-the-existence/ there's a full track list (unless you meant more comprehensive than that, like, with timings or something, but mixcloud updates its "now playing" bar every time the track changes) plus a download link.

Enjoying the mix btw, thanks. Nice to see Abwärts on a mix, looking forward to lots of stuff I've never heard of.

the John Carpenter intro track was mixing perfectly with some austere techno I had playing in the other tab :D

the Might Sphincter track afterwards, not so much

Thanks Spacecadet. I actually thought the Carpenter piece was the intro for the Mighty Sphincter one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXphrT63yzs

Also: the goddess returns to us...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5f8dMw_Zz4

Nicole Sabouné - "Lifetime" (Spotify, Soundcloud). A big-voiced Swede with a great band.

This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have revised as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it!

It's 30 tracks, over 2 hours.

Rolling Goth 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

some gloomy synth music that I have liked from this year:

Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage: http://open.spotify.com/album/2tmaVipk4Yn0KYTUxYSmZJ
Police Des Moeurs – Ceux Qui Restent: http://open.spotify.com/album/4qdM3MzKpK8K6LuEJL054U
Född Död - Studie i nähret, längtan & besvikelse: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Kp2vOEozG48fjlzEQAaOQ

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015... sadly, Siouxsie's "Love Crime" is still AWOL. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Goth 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist