Blauerosen

Album: In an Empty Space I'm Screaming

bloody/bath

Label: Kooky Too

Album: All of you are so far

Label: Icy Cold Records

Label: Crackedankles

Label: aufnahme+wiedergabe

Label: Hospital Productions

SEX SWING

Album: Golden Triangle

Label: God Unknown Records

Label: Svart Records

Album:

Label: The Circle Music

Label: Cleopatra Records

Label: Neurot Recordings

Label: Relapse Records

Debut album:

Label: PANICMACHINE

Label: Sacred Bones Records

OBEY COBRA

Label: TANKCRIMES

SUN O)))

Album: Presents...PENTEMPLE

Label: Constellation

Album: NO???TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28?,?340 DEAD

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums September 2024

logo playlist Perhaps we can admit at this point that this is the best month of the year in terms of its music output and the best playlist of the year in terms of the variety of styles and energies that our favourite releases represent.

The debut albums of this month, from Virgin Vampires and Dreamless Veil, have maintained our interest in great gothic rock and extreme metal music. The former has songs infused with macabre theatricality, and the latter has bone-cracking/grief-infused vocals followed by frantic guitar solos that make us wonder how it might feel to disappear fully.

The new offering by ABU NEIN, coming from a place of profound sadness as the band has admitted, continues to haunt us with melodies that touch some very well-hidden dark chords in our psyche. The punk section of the month’s soundtrack was powerful and socially perceptive as it should be with a new single by SPRINTS, and a new album by Golpe sending rare political resistance vibes to the world from Italy.

Perhaps the most powerful noise/industrial release of the year, is the new album by Dame Area which manages to bring back the (now) rare qualities of dynamin non-hypnotic, non-repetitive industrial music. Alongside it we can enjoy the new album by Phobos Reactor, taking inspiration from powerful old-school industrial rhythms and aesthetics.

This month’s post-punk section includes powerful entries by CROWS, kontrolle and Chain Cult who stress the melodic, the vindictive and the noisy aspects of post-punk.

We believe that the darkest sonic colours were used by the releases of Diablation , Tribes of Medusa and A Swarm of The Sun this month. We believe that only a lived experience can give to people the wisdom of the layers and textures of sadness and darkness and these two albums explore all of them!

Finally, a special mention is necessary for the new albums of The Beauty of Gemina and Tindersticks. The return of Tindersticks revealed a preference for soul-infused songs and an exploration of animation and humour in their video clips.

The new album by The Beauty of Gemina, sounds very personal as if coming from a place of sadness. We have welcomed the return of the melancholic post-punk melodies in the band’s songs also evident in their visuals.

We hope that you enjoy listening to this playlist as much as we did while preparing it.

Label: Progress Productions

Debut album: Virgin Vampires

Label: The Circle Music

Label: Hand Drawn Dracula

Label: Bad Vibration Records

Golpe

Label: Static Shock Records

Album: Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.

Label: Holy Goat Records

Label: sonicterror records

Label: La Vida Es Un Mus

Album: Toda La Verdad Sobre Dame Area

Dame Area

Label: Mannequin Records

Label: aufnahme + wiedergabe

EP: Zelja Masta Strah

Label: Kind Violence Records

Label: Sacred Bones Records

Label: Osmose Productions

Label: Relapse Records

Label: Pelagic Records

Single: Mountains of Shame

Tribes of Medusa

Label: Pelagic Records

Single: The Ghostmaster's Daughter

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Monthly playlist- Favourite albums July 2024

Posted: 27th August 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releases
Tags: best darkwave releases 2024, best electronic albums 2024, best new releases 2024, best post-punk releases 2024, best psych albums 2024, best psychedelic rock albums 2024, best punk albums 2024, Black Market Karma new album 2024, Black Market Karma WOBBLE, bloody/bath body, bloody/bath new single 2024, darkwave music, experimental albums 2024, Filmmaker Grim Encoders 2024, Filmmaker new album 2024, FUZZ Club Records album releases 2024, independent music, Ivan The Tolerable new album 2024, Ivan The Tolerable Vertigo, La Vida Es Un Mus album releases 2024, lo-fi music, Metropolis Records album releases 2024, new music, noise music, Peace De Resistance Lullaby for the Debris, Peace De Resistance new album 2024, post-punk music, psych rock music, Psychoformalina new single 2024, Psychoformalina Spoznieni, punk music, Riot Season album releases 2024, Sad Madonna/Tout Debord sans ou avec toi, Sad Madonna/Tout Debord split EP 2024, Schrodinger Depths of Misery 2024, Schrodinger new single 2024, self-released music 2024, SWISSDARKNIGHTS releases 2024, The Circle Music releases 2024, The March Violets Crocodile Promises, The March Violets new album 2024, underground music, Virgin Vampires, Virgin Vampires debut single 2024

logo playlist July might have been much quieter than usual, but it was not a dull month in any way. The soundtrack of the month included the release of a very promising debut single by Virgin Vampires who are warming us up for their first album that sounds as if it will be following a darkwave path. The new offering by Peace De Resistance was refreshing with its combination of socially perceptive lyrics and a glam rock attitude. The new album by The March Violets is a classic gothic rock album that should be heard on the dancefloor of any dark alternative club.

Finally the new psych-rock release by Black Market Karma is inspired by the characteristics of analogue recording equipment with the aim of making the album “…feel like a collection of discarded and worse for wear instruments came to life, refurbished themselves and started to play. The sound is an attempt to give form to the often formless feeling that is nostalgia. With songs attempting to crystallise a feeling known as ‘fernweh’. A kind of longing for a place and time you’ve never experienced, be it in this world or another.” as Stanley Belton explained.

We think that this short and sweet playlist will be a great accompaniment to a very warm evening during the hours of the sunset and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did while preparing it!

Label: La Vida Es Un Mus

Single: body

bloody/bath

Label: Metropolis Records

Sad Madonna/Tout Debord

EP: sans ou avec toi

Virgin Vampires

Debut single: Virgin Vampires

Label: The Circle Music

Label: SWISSDARKNIGHTS

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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums June 2024

Posted: 22nd July 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releases
Tags: ALLARME ALLARME, ALLARME debut album 2024, Alone In The Hollow Garden new album 2024, Alone In The Hollow Gardens Void Transmissions MMXXIV, alternative music, ambient music, anatoly grinberg & andreas davids inspired by a tragedy, anatoly grinberg & andreas davids new album 2024, anders manga leave my grave open, anders manga new single 2024, ant-zen album releases 2024, architrav new album 2024, architrav welk, Astari Nite new album 2024, Astari Nite Resolution of Happiness 2024, BAT-CAVE Productions album releases 2024, best ambient albums 2024, best coldwave albums 2024, best deathrock albums 2024, best downtempo albums 2024, best electronic albums 2024, best experimental albums 2024, best gothic music 2023, best idm albums, best neoclassical albums 2024, best noise albums 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best rock albums 2024, best synthwave music 2024, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2024, Bleib Modern, Bleib Modern new album 2024, Byronic Sex & Exile antony & cleopatra, Byronic Sex & Exile new single 2024, Camerata Mediolanense Atalanta Fugiens, Camerata Mediolanense new album 2024, CAVE CASTLE enw album 2024, CAVE CASTLE Midnight Melancholy, CAVE CASTLE new album 2024, Chrystabell and David Lynch Cellophane Memories, Chrystabell and David Lynch new single 2024, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2024, coldwave music, Daniel Davies Ghost of The Heart, Daniel Davies new album 2024, deathrock music, debut releases 2024, downtempo music, dreamy music, dubstep music, electronic music, ethereal music, experimental music, frank riggio new album 2024, frank riggio qu4, free jazz music, Glaring Hope, Glaring new album 2024, Goth City Records releases 2024, gothic rock, Hymen Records album releases 2024, IDM music, Kalte Nacht new album 2024, KALTE NACHT U R G E, Kscope releases 2024, Lucid Dreams Mesmerism, Lucid Dreams new album 2024, Mayflower Madame new single 2024, Mayflower Madame Paint It All Blue, Negative Gain Productions album releases 2024, new music 2024, Night In Athens new album 2024, Night In Athens Wasted Reflections, Nine x Nine Records releases 2024, noise music, Noromakina hung, Noromakina new single 2024, post-punk music, Prophecy Productions album releases 20242, Red Cavity Records album releases 2024, rock music, Sacred Bones Records album releases 2024, self released music, signalstoerung new album 2024, signaltoerung occurrence, synth-punk, synthwave, TBOG music releases 2024, The Beauty of Gemina new single 2024, The Beauty of Gemina Whispers, The Radicant debut single 2024, The Radicant Zero Blue, the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus new album 2024, The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus The Dream We Carry 2024, tribal music, underground music, UVB-76 Music album releases 2024, Vincent Cavanagh new project, Wave Records album releases 2024, WHOLE Hydra, WHOLE new album 2024

logo playlist The month after Wave Gotik Treffen is always one that perceives music under the prism of the festival. Our favourite albums and releases of June 2024 helped us make a trip into a mysterious landscape, still full of the darkness of the colder months. Our soundtrack of the month forms an IDM, post punk, dreamy, hazy and neoclassical path full with twists and turns and a lot of sonic texture.

We were delighted for the return of Camerata Mediolanense (which we had the pleasure of interviewing) with their album ‘Atalanta Fugiens‘ inspired by an enigmatic book written around 1617 by Michael Maier. The album fits well within the band’s discography and has subjects that place it in the heart of modern discourse around change and transformation at many levels. The return of The Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus with their new album ‘The Dream We Carry‘ after four years was both unexpected and truly exciting!

We were also pumped by the new album of Bleib Modern, a post-punk/darkwave band whose career we have followed since its beginning. Their self-titled album is the best of their career so far and you will probably find that you will enjoy it from start to finish without any interruptions. Talking about an album that one can listen on repeat from start to finish, I am sure that those out there who appreciate dystopian punk, deathrock and krautrock will agree with us for featuring Allarme‘s self-titled album in this soundtrack. The addition of a ‘dancing’ saxophone adds an air of dystopian cabaret atmosphere to the whole experience too.

WHOLE‘s ‘Hydra‘ and ‘Mesmerism‘ by Lucid Dreams, were two special releases for different reasons. The former because unlike most of Blackjack Illuminist Records releases, this one explores more prominent punk paths and creates a hybrid result where darkwave and post-punk give way to rather vindictive punk. Lucid Dreams on the other hand, combine a very evocative/dystopian cover with a free jazz/idm/experimental sonic environment, which manages to transfer the listener to an environment where excitement for decay and imminent danger prevails!

A special mention is due to the return of Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh with a new project called The Radicant. We read that the name of the project relates to the word “radicant” which describes organisms that create their roots gradually as they advance, allowing species to mobilise, adapt and grow on any surface. The name also relates to the way Vincent perceives his journey into music and composition and his experiments with creating compositions for visual art/tech. The Radicant release their debut single in June and we expect the full length album in the following months.

Finally, we cannot express our happiness after the announcement of an upcoming release by Chrystabell and David Lynch – offering to us their captivating dreamy, ethereal wickedness that has enveloped David Lynch’s films in the past – a disquieting aura that is hard to ignore. The first single from this release is entitled ‘Sublime Eternal Love‘.

We hope you enjoy listening to our playlist as much as we enjoyed creating it!

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Live Review: ANOHNI and The Johnsons live at The Barbican 2024

Posted: 2nd July 2024 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,Interviews
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ANOHNI and The Johnsons live at the Barbican
…or else ANOHNI – transformed, transcendent, and risen like a phoenix – conjures up the spirit of the Johnsons and offers a career best performance at the Barbican.

I’ll try to put into words something of the energy we all felt coming from the stage last night that made us wiser, enlightened – and a bit sadder.

By now, those familiar with the career of ANOHNI – but also those who experienced her music for the first time last night – know that soul, jazz, rock, and psych come out of her as something with a very different potency than previously experienced. Having followed her career since the early 2000s and having seen her three times throughout the years in key moments of this career, I can admit with some certainty that yesterday’s performance was the best of all. It was the first time ANOHNI talked so comfortably about her collaborators and their lives, and the first time that I felt she was addressing each of us individually with a nonchalance and a warmth that can only come when someone is feeling content and at ease without the need to entertain just for the hell of it.

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Monthly playlist- Favourite albums March 2024

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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums February 2024

logo playlist A month whose soundtrack includes new albums by and also the trees, PET NEEDS and Whispering Sons is not one to pass by!

We might have had terrible cold, dark days here in London last month but great music kept us good company. With a few exceptions, most releases in February, explored existential themes as highlighted through their lyrics.

PET NEEDS have come back with yet another powerful, socially perceptive punk album that encompasses within its lyrics, everyday life scenes and thoughts of a reality consumed by existential fear. A similar path is followed by the lyrics of Whispering Sons, albeit one that has a stronger theatrical element. During February, we were delighted to listen to the debut post-punk/darkwave album by TORCH, a new band from Aarhus. and also the trees, offered us yet another beautiful album, an elegy to known and unknown sides of a city. Finally, a special mention is due, to Vera Sola , whose dark folk album ‘Peacemaker’ draws inspiration from her personal experiences and presents them using poetic, melancholic vignettes.

The psychedelic side of this month’s soundtrack is represented by the incredibly powerful album by Thee Alcoholics, whose cover is evidently inspired by pop art and some of its guitar riffs bring to mind those of Black Sabbath.

We hope you like this playlist as much as we enjoyed making it!

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Album Review: Nick Carlisle-Bloody Saturnalia

Posted: 14th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Album reviews
Tags: albums you must hear, best albums 2023, electronic music, experimental pop, independent music, indie rock music, new albums 2023, new music 2023, Nick Carlisle Bloody Saturnalia, Nick Carlisle solo album 2023, synthwave music, The Colour inverted records album releases 2023, underground music

For some reason, we have always thought that reviewing a personal album, like this one, would never do it justice. We overcame these hesitations, and this had everything to do with the album’s particular atmosphere created by the music.

We have been trying to think of another album we have come across that had so much light amidst so much darkness…nothing comes to mind and, with every new listening session, we are getting more and more reassured about this. But let’s take things from the beginning.

‘Bloody Saturnalia‘ comes after the release of a haunting soundtrack to celebrate 100 years from the release of the movie ‘Hӓxan’. It is an album inspired by and dedicated to Nick Carlisle’s father, who sadly passed away on New Year’s Eve 2023. The title of this album and the subjects of its lyrics also relate to the book ‘Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner’ whose theme, the rise of Nazism in Germany, is a timely one as we see the rise of populism around the world today. Kenneth Clarke’s documentary series ‘Civilisation’ also fed into the themes of various songs on this album (e.g. ‘Another Level Down‘, ‘Life in A Major Key‘, ‘Bloody Saturnalia‘).

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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums October 2023

logo playlist We listened to 70 independent/underground releases during October 2023, and we were stunned by the debut singles/EP/albums during this month. 26 of these 70 releases form this monthly playlist and let us admit that there have been a few disappointing releases that did not make it despite our biased convictions that they would.

There are some big highlights here and I am not just referring to the customary October release by Nox Arcana who once again gave us a haunting gothic sonata to get us through Spooktober! Oliver Marson, whose intriguing stage presence we enjoyed recently at the 100 Club, released a very memorable, new wave, synthwave album entitled ‘Why Did I Choose This?‘. The overall sound of this album brings to mind equally the Psychedelic Furs and Japan and the melodies are addictive beyond belief. The lyrics also share some Bukowski qualities and are quite poetic and pop at the same time.

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Interview- Bestial Mouths

Posted: 22nd October 2023 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,Interviews
Tags: Bestial Mouths interview 2023, dark alternative music, independent music, interview 2023, Lynette Cerezo interview 2023, Negative Gain Productions, new bands interview, underground music

Logo interview The dark alternative music scene has had a myriad of new bands emerge during the last decade but very few have stuck around. Even fewer have consistently released interesting and genre-bending music. Bestial Mouths started in 2009 and hit our radar a few years later after the release of ‘Hissing Veil’. 14 years later, they are one of the most visually and sonically interesting bands to follow, not only because they defy any categorisation but because the quality of their releases is quite remarkable every single time.