The Best New Goth/Post-Punk Releases of Winter 2024/25
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
1M ago
The darker winter months are naturally a particularly fecund season for new releases by projects in the goth/post-punk world, but far too often this new material is unfairly overlooked in end-of-year ‘best of’ lists which are often in reality finalised not long after Halloween. The winter of 2024/25 has confirmed not only the broad musical range that falls under the ‘goth’ label these days, but also the movement’s global reach, as this selection of some of the best new releases of the last three months of the year will hopefully demonstrate. The twenty tracks are listed roughly in order of gen ..read more
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Album Reviews: Mayflower Madame ‘Insight’ and The Cure ‘Songs Of A Lost World’
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
3M ago
By coincidence (or perhaps not given that it was Halloween weekend), the most eagerly-anticipated releases of 2024, by both original wave and current wave post-punk artists, were released simultaneously recently, with The Cure’s Songs Of A Lost World and Mayflower Madame’s Insight coming out on the same day. Both bands’ genial frontmen had been affected by bereavement in the preparation of their respective new albums, with Robert Smith grieving over the passing of his brother and his parents, with Trond Fagernes and his partner trying to come to terms with the devastating tragic st ..read more
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Live Review: Divine Shade and Bootblacks at Bannermans, Edinburgh, Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
4M ago
 Yet another great night of darkwave music in the vault at the legendary Bannermans venue, thanks to a typically inspired pairing of acts from the synth end of the modern goth market by Flag Promotions, bringing Brooklynites Bootblacks and French band, Divine Shade to the heart of Scotland’s capital for the first night of a UK tour. Playing Edinburgh for the first time ever, despite having released their first (split-)single almost 15 years ago, Bootblacks took some time to fully hit their stride as the opening act on this co-headlining tour. Whether it was the preponderance of slow ..read more
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The Best New Goth/Post-Punk Releases of Summer/Autumn 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
4M ago
  If 2023 saw the goth/post-punk scene dominated by stellar releases by US acts (Ashes Fallen, The Bellwether Syndicate, A Cloud of Ravens, Vazum etc) and the first half of this year saw attention turn to albums from the trailblazers of the contemporary European scene (Then Comes Silence, They Die, Whispering Sons et al), the summer and autumn have seen a welcome reflourishing of the British scene, the traditional homeland of the evergreen (or should that be ‘everblack’) dark genres. In this latest round-up of exceptional new sounds, the focus is exclusively on projects which are either ..read more
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Live Review: Gothzilla, Last July and Voodoo Twins at The King’s Theatre, Kirkcaldy on Friday 13th September 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
5M ago
 It’s fair to say that Kirkcaldy has seen better times. Ironically or appropriately (depending on your political stance) for the home town of the “Father of Capitalism” Adam Smith, the days when the “Lang Toun” was bookended by successful collieries with flourishing linoleum works in between have long since passed, and the windswept promenade (nowadays flanked by sets of tower blocks and dotted by the backs of closed high street retail shops and a modernist multi-storey car park so brutal that it appears to have been implanted directly from a war zone) looks mournfully across the gloaming ..read more
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Live Review: Horror Vacui, Dr Void and the Skinjob’s at Bloc+, Glasgow, Friday 16th August 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
6M ago
Italian deathrock punk band Horror Vacui were formed by current singer Koppa and partner Marzia (now on drums) on their return to Bologna after living in a squat in London where they made friends amongst the British capital’s goth scene in the first decade of the new millennium, and although the sound of their four excellent albums to date has been described as “a politicised Red Lorry Yellow Lorry meets The Chameleons”, the project’s commitment to their pure punk ethos continues to this day, as one of the most authentically and overtly political bands on the goth or goth-adjacent scene. Vi ..read more
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Live Review: The March Violets, 13th Chime, Naut and Gothzilla at the Classic Grand, Glasgow - 3rd August 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
6M ago
  Another goth show, another great multi-band presentation in Scotland. Frank from Flag Promotions called his eclectic four band line-up a goth mini-festival in his pre-publicity, and in reality this show was probably the closest there will be to a goth fest in Scotland this year. The Classic Grand’s main room is tucked away on the top floor of what was originally a Victorian warehouse in downtown Glasgow but for many Glaswegians the building is still best remembered as a 1970’s porno cinema, so a more than suitable venue for what The March Violets’ Rosie Garland would describe as a “cele ..read more
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The Best New Goth/Post-Punk Releases of the first half of 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
7M ago
The first six months of 2024 have witnessed a frenzied hive of activity on the goth/post-punk scene, with the annual treats of festival line-up announcements, high quality new releases from scene big-hitters and unexpected returns of names from the distant past to the recording scene, with Xmal's Anja Huwe and French legends Corpus Delicti amongst the latter category so far this year. This period may have seen the unwelcome return of the extremely tiresome gatekeeping debate, but also the start of a more mature discussion about the need to actively grow the scene in younger generations, with t ..read more
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Live Review: Ghost Dance and Twisted Nerve at Bannerman's Bar, Edinburgh, Thursday 9th May 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
9M ago
 Forty years ago, the legendary Black October tour debuted in Scotland in Edinburgh, with a gig pairing headliners The Sisters of Mercy (whose debut album First and Last and Always had been scheduled for release at this time but delayed because of health and recording issues) with fellow West Yorkshire goths Skeletal Family (touring their indie chart number one debut album Burning Oil) in a show at a venue (the Caley Palais) which is now a Wetherspoons pub. The gig itself was moderately well-attended, with the local student newspaper relating that “Skeletal Family struggled against a terr ..read more
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Live Review: VAZUM, Twisted Nerve and Voodoo Twins at Bannerman's Bar, Edinburgh, Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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by nikolas vitus lagartija
11M ago
 It’s not often that a relatively new US project takes the financial hit of a self-organised European tour, but Detroit-based grunge-goth duo VAZUM are not your typical darkscene act. Not only innovating musically with their unique take on the gothic aesthetic they have named “deathgaze”, the band had also thoughtfully released a ‘greatest hits’ album V- which collated their best songs in a re-recorded stripped-down style which more faithfully represents their live sound. Their UK shows had been due to commence the night before in Glasgow, but major electrical supply issues had resulted i ..read more
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