TVAM - Ruins (2026)

Joe Oxley uses the moniker of TVAM to create a curious blend of electronica, post-punk and dreamy music that is also extremely catchy at the same time. On his third record Ruins, roughly half of the songs could easily become radio hits (if radios were any good these days), which is a fantastic recommendation to try this oneiric banger machine.

The darkwavey vibes, the post-punky vibes, the dream poppy vibes: everything is present on Ruins, Oxley clearly draws from various sources, having fun with concocting the perfect mixtures for music lovers. The Words Real Life, or my favourite Follow Me Home are the catchiest thing you can imagine. But at the same time, the album is meant to reflect the pain of grief and the "strange beauty that comes with it", a curious form of a disco music for dead inside, a dance setlist for lonely and lost. Follow Me Home is just the darkest thing you can lose yourself on the dancefloor to and I love it. In his own words, the artist's music refers to memories and fears of the audience which, for me, is a perfect explanation why dream pop and post-punk meet here. 

Ruins costs 11 EUR (9 GBP).

Check: Follow Me Home

Country: UK

Genre: darkwave dreamy pop

Label: Invada Records

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Kielichy - Punkty płonące (2026)

"Melancholia, Misanthropy, Melody", this is the whole description of the Polish project Kielichy ("Chalices"). But it's also everything it needs. The Wrocław-based band walks among alternative genres with grace, taking a lot from folk and post-punk, but ultimately creating something very, very theirs. But it's also a goodbye of some sorts.

The short EP makes the second longer entry in the band's discography after the self-titled EP from two years ago. This one feels like a continuation of the debut, but also a level up for me. Adrian Szczecina's deep voice automatically adds a lot of darkness (and darkwaveness) to the whole project that marries folk's lyrics-writing and sensibility with alternative guitar music. I must say that my favourite part of this music is the sound of the guitars here: the darkness just emanates from their low-pitched, calm but also unnerving presence. Black Heart Procession's vibes all over the place.

But also i is said that the band aims at changing their signature sound, moving away from the neofolk vibes towards... Yeah, who knows? The EP's last song, Morze Czarne ("The Black Sea") is a clear statement on this style shift. It doesn't reveal the destination, but verses like "We have to destroy some things finally/To create new places" tell a lot. I'm very curious here cause the artists clearly know how to draw inspiration from various genres to make something poignant and dark so I'm not worried. As they sing: "Let us sail. We'll find ourselves alone in the middle of the sea".

Punkty płonące costs 2.5 EUR (10 PLN).

Check: Morze Czarne

Country: Poland

Genre: darkwave neofolk

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The Deadly Affair - Visions Through the Sense of Silence (2025)

I can't believe that this is only debut from the Chilean band The Deadly Affairs! When I came across it, I was sure it's created by an experienced group and probably a bit too well-known for this blog. This is not the case, even though Visions Through the Sense of Silence makes certainly a well-made and very airy darkwave release.

The image and the vocals scream darkwave here, but the atmosphere of the music around it is far from this genre, way closer to slowcore, dream pop genres. Which, together with the backing vocals make my genre-centered mind go through some unbelievable options including ambient cold wave or ethereal post-punk. I love it. And it's ot only that, the band can create this overwhelming yet calm atmosphere that drags the audience to the ground but also feels very intimate. Like a heavy blanket made of cold wave music. And it's still not everything because they are as swift with ambiance creation as with writing catchy melodies which may sound strange, but Take My Blood is certainly a banger you hum together with the artists.

This "stark and hypnotic descent into brooding atmospheres and unrelenting tension", as it's advertised by the label, makes one of the most promising debuts of the year, regardless of the genre.

Visions Through the Sense of Silence costs 7 USD.

Check: Take My Blood

Country: Chile

Genre: ethereal darkwave

Label: Anything That Makes Light

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Monochromatic Visions - Change Who You Are (2025)

It's only four tracks, but when something is that good, who cares? I have mentioned the British band a couple of times before and it's no surprise as their music makes a perfect blend of the noisy and the melodic. It was proven on their new EP.

Shoegaze, new wave, pop music. They all have their place within this short release. The music here feels light and unbelievably catchy, but there is a hint of a darker atmosphere and the omnipresent noise somewhere in the backgrounds, like something you catch with the corner of your eye but can't really focus your sight on. All for compositions are worth checking out, including the most poppy one, the first song of the album, I Told You. And frankly, I like it the most, probably because it's as catchy as it can be, a candidate for a summer hit within the noisier offstream world.

Change Who You Are costs 14 EUR (12 GBP) (which is slightly ridiculous to be honest).

Check: I Told You

Country: UK

Genre: melodic ethereal wave

Monochromatic Visions - REFORM (2022)

Monochromatic Visions - Monochromatic Visions (2017)

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Laikamorí - △​△​△ (2023)

The Peruvian artists who currently live in US, Laikamorí, made me fall in love with their unique and weird music with their fantastic debut Persōna five years ago. Now, they are back and △​△​△ proves that the debut was not a coincidence.

Based on electronic music that can be both lively and energetic as well as dark and gloomy, Laikamorí's compositions spark awe with how uniquely they sound. The industrial influences take over most of the tracks but they have to share with almost-dub-like electronica and noisy ambient parts. And this all is accompanied by one of the most interesting vocals out there: high-pitched and dreamy that express this partly gibberish partly poetic lyrics to make everything glow with the most attractive kind of musical mystery. 

And this is the first time I can post here, under a band picture I took personally. Apart from being extremely talented, the two artists proved to be super friendly when they spent some time in Kraków back in 2021.

△​△​△ costs 10 USD.

Laikamorí - Persōna (2018)

Check: Amok

Country: Peru/New York, US

Genre: ethereal wave

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L'ivrenoir - chap​​​.​​​10 : l'eigenlicht (2023)

There's something particularly interesting in the French scene of experimental folk/darkwave music. The new example for this statement is the Lille-based trio called L'ivrenoir who have already released some music with the newest being the EP called chap​​​.​​​10 : l'eigenlicht.

The band "shakes up the codes of narrative music by plunging the listener into a paradoxical atmosphere. A musical oxymoron from which exhales a dark light...". While the vocals are fairly standard for this kind of music (although they feel particularly close to the listener, as if an unsettling kind of ASMR), the most interesting part is the music in the backgrounds: with no traditional drums but with a clarinet instead. With this acoustic vibe but with hard to miss rhythm. With ridiculously energetic pace but with the tangible sense of darkness behind it. Something to keep an eye on, that's for sure.

chap​​​.​​​10 : l'eigenlicht costs 5 EUR.

Check: WegøtT

Country: France

Genre: darkwave folk

Label: Vailloline

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Give Up to Failure - COCOON (2023)

The Wrocław-based group Give Up to Failure is one of the few bands I know that successfully combine post-punk and post-rock genres. Their music is dark in two different ways and it works very well together. Three years after their debuting release Burden, they are back with something very special on COCOON.

It's really easy to sense what it meant for the band to finish this release. They state that "This album is blood, tears and rain for us (...). This album was supposed to be the beginning, and it became the end of a certain stage" and so the lineup of the outfit is going to change right now so the album is already a snapshot of the history of Polish underground music. The uniqueness of the band comes from their flexible approach to music genres. While the music is set in the extremely dark and gloomy kind of post-rock heaviness, the vocals make it closer to, depending on the song or even fragment of a song, the coldness of post-punk or the warmth of dream pop. I especially like when the soft but emotional ones lead the audience into the tear-jerking, melancholic place that is made of synthy and guitar-heavy noise (as in Sleepwalk).

The hypnotic darkness gets even more seductive in the single track Slow Collapse where the listener is enchanted by the tribal-like magical chanting. But, in truth, the whole album is mesmerizing, from the livelier beginnings to the hazy, noisy with the guitar overload finish. 

COCOON costs 6.5 EUR (30 PLN).

Give Up to Failure - Burden (2020)

Check: Slow Collapse

Country: Poland

Genre: post-punk post-rock

Label: Requiem Records

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Watchcamp Best Singles of May-June'22 with atmos bloom, Midpoint Union, Onira, The Palace of Tears, Redloz

atmos bloom - daisy

The first single from the incoming album that will follow the band's 2020 debut EP; the Curtis Paterson and Tilda Gratton duo from Manchester present a super airy indie pop that is so very, very catchy. The song costs 1 USD.

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Midpoint Union - Beyond Days

Pedro R. is from Portugal and his music combines synth-based, lively and melodic backgrounds with vocals that in turn combine dream pop's subtle sound with post-punk's vibes all over them. Two songs stay in your head from the very first time you hear them. They cost whatever you want to pay.

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Onira - What's to Fear?

Carefree and tune-rich indie pop with a lo-fi-kind-of noise all over it - this is the Californian band who have recently released their debut single/short EP. Three brief songs cost whatever you want to pay.

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The Palace of Tears - Tears of the Moon v​.​2

The Erick r. Scheid and L.V. Darkling duo from New Orleans create a super interesting take on darkwave music: minimal and atmospheric backgrounds and vocals that range from suggestive whispers to opera-like beautiful singing. Two years after their debut, they are releasing a short but very meaningful EP. Two tracks cost whatever you want to pay.

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Redloz - Ungatz

The Dutch artist Bart de Groot, together with Jonny Parlett who provided vocals, created this airy and melodic piece of dream pop. Two versions of the song cost 2 EUR.

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Zetra - From Without (2022)

Zetra, the metal-stylized dream pop project from London is back. In fact, they release new EPs quite regularly and after I posted about The Wanderer two years ago, they managed to release two EPs: From Within and From Without. And the latter is so good that I couldn't miss it.

Although the image of the band is clearly black metal-inspired (with the logo, the cover arts, the IG pictures all about the dark culture of metal music), their music is located on the more ethereal part of the music spectrum. The dispersed and very airy vocals are balanced with tangible, coarse rock/metal guitars and the results are brilliant. Especially in my favourite song on this short album, Call of the Void with its catchy (and extremely unnerving and gloomy) chorus. Those dream pop vibes are packed in a synth-soaked package that ties the project also to more post-punk scene, but, in reality, the project really draws the best from very different genres and this is what I like about it the most.

From Without costs 6 EUR (4.99 GBP).

Zetra - The Wanderer (2020)

Check: Call of the Void

Country: UK

Genre: darkwave dream pop

Label: Children of the Vortex

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Nightcrush - You Mark Me the Deepest (2021)

They have been releasing singles for over a year now and finally decided to show their debut LP called You Mark Me the Deepest now; Nightcrush are an Italian duo Raffaele Galasso - Alessandra Cesano, who create an interesting take on ethereal wave music.

This is indeed an interesting one. The artists use a lot of synths and don't shy away from the wave genres as far as vocals and the overall mood are concerned, but at the same time they drown everything deep in the ethereal, dreamy atmosphere. The vocals are very much dispersed, shoegaze-style, the melodies withdrawn and hidden in the airy noise that is present in every second of the release. At the same time, you can hardly say it's not a loud playlist, but the massiveness of the sound builds up very slowly so you can hardly notice that a dispersed, ambient-pop like track turns into a noise soundscape shoegaze fans won't say no to. I especially like this in Lonely Sea that catches the way an actual sea creates a noise that exists mostly in the background of consciousness.

But it doesn't mean the Italians can't do some serious, full frontal noise. Moonpearl is a track the intention of which is to crush the audience from the first notes. I love how slow but steadily moving their music feels, it's not rapid like an avalanche but profoundly inevitable like glaciers. Very interesting take on noisy music.

You Mark Me the Deepest costs 7 EUR.

Check: Lonely Sea

Country: Italy

Genre: post-punk shoegaze

Label: Shunu Records

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Kælan Mikla - Undir köldum norðurljósum (2021)

I remember getting to know Kælan Mikla when they came to Poland to support King Dude three years ago. Since then, they managed to release an almost perfect album Nótt eftir nótt, threw more exciting live gigs, create solo albums and now, they're back with a new album, Undir köldum norðurljósum, that is easily as good as the last one.

There's a lot of those darkwave's dark discotheque vibes all over the release (just have a go at Ósýnileg!): the synth backgrounds burst with lively sounds while still generating the gloomy and mesmerizing atmosphere. This is only empowered by the whispering vocals singing in Icelandic, the mystic and mysterious readings quickly get out of the scale. Especially in my favourite Sólstöður with its witch-like tribal screamings adding to the exciting horror vibes (it comes with absolutely zero surprise that the track's title translates to "Solstice"). The album's title, on the other hand, means "Under the Cold Northern Lights" but, truth be told, it doesn't feel that cold; maybe there's a hint that it is freezing outside, but here, in the vicinity of hot, dancing bodies and in the warm darkness they bring, it is hot and steamy.

Although their sounds differ much, Kælan Mikla seem to be close with the French icons of Alcest: they toured together and now they collaborated in the studio as well with Hvítir Sandar being more guitar-oriented and Alcest-like atmospheric. The three witches from Iceland will be back on tour when the day get longer again, and, fortunately, are coming to Kraków once again, this time as the main course - can't wait!

Undir köldum norðurljósum costs 10 USD.

Sólveig Matthildur - Constantly in Love (2019)

Kælan Mikla - Nótt eftir nótt (2018) EN

Check: Ósýnileg

Country: Iceland

Genre: synthpop darkwave

Label: Artoffact Records

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Hante. - Morning Tsunami (2021)

Hélène de Thoury, better known as Hante., is one of the artists who mix heavy and deep electronica with ethereal vocals, probably the best one too. Two years after her last album, she released the fifth one entitled Morning Tsunami and, as it is being commented, this may be her best one yet.

The album is "more electronic and brutal" then her previous works and "full of raw and dark emotions, this new production is a silent scream in our sick world". And when you go through de Thoury's social media, it becomes apparent that she is boiling with emotions indeed. It's always a good thing to transmute them into art which usually turns out to be genuine and touching as a result. In her music the feelings are expressed by the deep electronic sounds with very heavy, very dominant beats that bring the atmosphere of nervousness and anxiety rather than fun and joy. This is a particularly dark music in fact, the ambiance is suffocating thanks to the deep layer of electronic sounds with only subtle vocals laying on top. 

There's no wonder that it's true what the label says about Hante. that she's "one-woman powerhouse of electronic might and pulsating energy". This mighty music contrasted with extremely melancholic vocals results in such beautiful compositions like Wasting Time that "reflects some of [the artist's] most intimate thoughts and insecurities" in an extremely catchy way, or my favourite and the most ethereal Catharsis.

Morning Tsunami costs 7 EUR.

Check: Catharsis

Country: France

Genre: heavy bass darkwave

Label: Synth Religion

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Ylva de Lune - I (2021)

Ylva de Lune is Ylva - singer/songwriter from Germany, together with Alpha who is responsible for the music part of the project. Their cooperation results in a blend of dark folk and metal music that they show on the debut album entitled simply  I.

The Germans took doom metal with its slow pace and monumental vibes and created a kind of its acoustic version. The vocals are clear and extremely airy but also have this vibe characteristic for female vocalists of metal music. There's a lot of heavy guitar noise in the music layer but there are also parts of contemplation and peace, (almost) no sign of metal's crazy drums means that the whole thing tastes more melancholic and depressive, simply speaking, it's what autumn could sound like if it was music (and the cover art only makes it obvious). Especially that the musicians don't hide their inspirations taken from shoegaze and blackgaze that result in the airy backing vocals that add to the release's ethereal atmosphere.

But the music is able to climb towards post-metal and even doom metal level, surprise the audience with very loud and somewhat rapid parts in the best way possible (a good example is Les ombres du Monde that, towards the end, brings a lot of noisy guitar fun or 11:55 with the most intriguing use of the metal-like automatic drums). And generally, the further into the album, the more visible the metal nature of the artists is, the higher the pace, the more crushing the sounds. You should like this album no matter if you're more into melancholic dark folk or impressive doom, as do I.

I costs 6 EUR.

Check: 11:55

Country: Germany

Genre: ethereal doom metal

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Feral Atom - I Dream in Blue (2021)

I was watching Ola Beręsewicz's beginnings as Feral Atom since the first single Love. I, nomen est omen, loved it so much that every new track seemed to me slightly worse, it's a bit paradoxical. But now, as her EP debut I Dream in Blue is finally available, I can see that whatever she does is simply brilliant and together, the songs create a well-leveled and coherent whole.

You can hardly say this album is not focused on the atmosphere. The way she uses the slightly higher-pitched and airier backing vocals adds to the album's surreal ambiance while her beautiful and very dark voice sets the whole in the eery and fairy-tale-like place that inspires both awe and fright at the same time. The same is true about the ever-so-slow pace and some guitar solo accents all over the album. I'll still argue that Love is the highlight of the release. It is the most atmospheric and the darkest track here and I will not deny that when I heard it for the first time, I baptized the artist "the Polish Chelsea Wolfe". Now I can see that Beręsewicz goes in her own direction but some similarities are still there and it makes for the best compliment in my eyes. She sings about love mostly, but this darker, well-thought-through take on the topic makes it so much profound - also in Czas ("Time"), the only song with Polish lyrics here - one about love and nature and the feeling of longing for both of them.

Feral Atom debuted on stage during the recently held Soundrive Festival and everyone who was there saw that she showed no trace of a debut stress while her music sounded as mysterious and climactic on the festival's Secret Spot stage as it does on this EP.

I Dream in Blue costs 2.5 EUR (10 PLN).

Check: Love

Country: Poland

Genre: dark dream pop

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Peter Bjärgö - The Translucency of Mind's Decay (2021)

The Swedish artist makes music for almost 30 years now, his discography is impressive and now it's time for its next part. Released with Cyclic Law, the new album The Translucency of Mind's Decay brings some of the darkwave nostalgia in a surprising form.

It is opened with very cinematic sounds of the title track - ones the epic vibes of which make you feel like you suddenly appeared within a completely different realm that surrounds you entirely. Especially that the vocals here have those folk/fantasy vibes with very darkwave twist within them. And this is the general ambiance of the release: there's a lot of ghostly backing vocals, Medieval-like instrumental sounds, and this general feeling of being in a very epic dream, which is true especially for tracks like Honoré de Balzac-inspired Séraphita.

The Translucency of Mind's Decay costs 8 EUR.

Check: Séraphita

Country: Sweden

Genre: fantasy neoclassical

Label: Cyclic Law

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All My Faith Lost ... - Untitled (2021)

The Italian folk/darkwave band All My Faith Lost... started making their music at the beginning of the millenium. A decade ago they released their last album called... Decade, and it made the fans talking about bad omens. Fortunately, the artists came back this year with an LP called Untitled, and it's a comeback worth waiting for.

Their music is based on Viola Roccagli's oldschool, very genre-relatable female vocals that makes you think of the classics like Dead Can Dance, but also about all the atmosphere they bring. They're non-invasive but very clear, not loud but poignant. And quite beautiful. They echo over a slowcore take on dark folk music based on acoustic instruments, mostly guitars that carry this music on. This is a rather unusual way to create darkwave music (as far as I know) but there's hardly a better genre for this release to be classified in. You can safely add acoustic, folk or art in front of it and the definition is complete.

What makes the album even more artsy is that the tracks here are inspired by paintings by such surreal artist as Ruas, Tara McPherson, Nicoletta Ceccoli and Ray Caesar. The most striking song here is, and it's an easy choice, We All Die Sometimes. The combination of unreal melody, slow pace and unnerving theme that is being performed with soul-stirring violins and peacefully mournful guitar makes it a long-lasting, darkwave hit. (Also, what a beautiful cover art!).

Untitled costs 8 EUR.

Check: We All Die Sometimes

Country: Italy

Genre: acoustic darkwave

Label: Cyclic Law

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Give Up to Failure - Burden (2020) EN

Wrocław-based Polish band playing very dark and very noisy blend of shoegaze and darkwave. This is Give Up to Failure, band that started to intrigue me playing live, now released a very interesting debut LP called Burden.

It seems to me that the Poles really underline their shoegaze inspirations. Indeed, the album really is loud and guitar-filled in the shoegaze style: more of the wall of guitar sounds than metal riffs. On the other hand, I'd rather call them darkwave, especially when it comes to the cold, dispersed vocals with the very coldwave vibes. And then, there's also rather flat sound and minimalist compositions. Atmosphere, darkness and melancholic noise.

It seems that their Bandcamp found compromise tagging their new album as darkgaze. Noise can be found everywhere on it, especially in tracks such as After the Fall or the final Burial Ground. But this noise is dirty, furious and not-at-all tamed. And it suits the band very well.

Burden costs 4 EUR (16 PLN).

Check: After the Fall

Country: Poland

Genre: darkwave shoegaze
Label: Requiem Records

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Give Up to Failure - Burden (2020) PL

Polacy z Wrocławia grający bardzo mroczny i bardzo noise'owy blend shoegaze'u i darkwave'u. Oto Give Up to Failure, zespół, który zaintrygował mnie na żywo, a teraz wydał bardzo ciekawy debiutancki long play zatytułowany Burden.

Zdaje się, że Polacy bardzo podkreślają swoje shoegaze'owe inspiracje. I faktycznie, na krążku z pewnością jest głośno i bardzo gitarowo ale właśnie w shoegaze'owym stylu: raczej ściana gitar niż metalowe riffy. Z drugiej strony, sam bardziej nazwałbym ich darkwave'em, zwłaszcza jeśli chodzi o zimny, rozproszony wokal w bardzo zimnofalowym stylu. Do tego dochodzi raczej płaski dźwięk i minimalistyczne kompozycje. Atmosfera, mrok i melancholijny hałas.

Wygląda na to, że ich Bandcamp poszedł na kompromis i otagował nową płytę grupy jako darkgaze. Hałasu jest co niemiara, zwłaszcza w takich kawałkach jak After the Fall czy finałowym Burial Ground. Ale jest to hałas brudny, noise'owy, zupełnie nie ułagodzony. Bardzo z tym zespołowi do twarzy.

Burden kosztuje 16 złotych.

Sprawdź: After the Fall

Kraj: Polska

Szufladka: darkwave shoegaze
Label: Requiem Records

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Sleepwalkers Baseball Club - How the World Ends (2020) EN

I wrote about Sleepwalkers Baseball Club already in January 2019 when a super intriguing single Grow Wings was released, then there was an EP called Six Steps Back. And now, finally, a long play How the World Ends that's a "culmination of three years, three jobs, three laptops, countless hours, and zero instruments".

Despite the fact that the artist swears he didn't mean to release an album about the end of the world during what seems to be one, it's inevitable that it is very on time. He knows it as he adds: "if nothing else, maybe it will serve as a good soundtrack for the insanity that is 2020". The theme is clear from the first song and its electronically infused post-punk. The vocals, lyrics and distinctive bass line fit this genre while there is also the richness of electronic sounds (that sound so good for example in Beware).

You can easily notice that while the theme is dark and fatalistic, SBC doesn't get rid of the synth melodic compositions and this contrast is bound to make the album such a good listen. And I can't not mention the wonderful cover art, so well designed and fitting my personal taste. Good job.

How the World Ends costs 7 USD.

Check: Beware

Country: Washington, US

Genre: electronic post-punk

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Sleepwalkers Baseball Club - How the World Ends (2020) PL

O Sleepwalkers Baseball Club pisałem już w styczniu 2019, kiedy to ukazał się szalenie intrygujący singiel Grow Wings, później była EP-ka Six Steps Back. Teraz w końcu ukazał się debiutancki long play How the World Ends będący "kulminacją trzech lat, trzech miejsc pracy, trzech laptopów, niezliczonych godzin i zera instrumentów".

Chociaż artysta zarzeka się, że nie było jego celem wydanie albumu o końcu świata w czasie, który faktycznie ten przypomina to nie ulega wątpliwości, że jest on bardzo aktualny. Zresztą muzyk dodaje: "jeśli nic więcej, to może album posłuży jako odpowiednia ścieżka dźwiękowa do wariactwa, jakim jest rok 2020". Temat pobrzmiewa od pierwszego kawałka i jego przesyconego elektroniką post-punku. Wokal, teksty i wyraźny bas bardzo do tego gatunku pasują. Z drugiej strony mamy bogactwo elektronicznych dźwięków (które świetnie grają np. w Beware).

Rzuca się w uszy, że mimo mrocznego, fatalistycznego tematu, SBC nie zrezygnował z synthowych, melodyjnych kompozycji i pewnie ten kontrast sprawia, że tak dobrze słucha się tego wydawnictwa. Nie można zapominać też o znakomitym cover arcie w moim ulubionym stylu. Klasa.

How the World Ends kosztuje 28 złotych (7 USD).

Sprawdź: Beware

Kraj: Waszyngton, US

Szufladka: electronic post-punk

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