Post-Punk

With recent discovery made through the long running music blog Systems Of Romance, here’s a first take on this track by the French synth/post-punk group Réseau D’Ombres who were active in the mid to late 1980s.

During a recent visit to Vancouver that’s currently wrapping up, a nice haul of records was found, including a number of Canadian underground classics such as this early EP and its title track “Rotting Geraniums” by Moev.

With this influential 90s post-hardcore band Unwound back on the road again, I have dug back into the extensive catalogue of one of my favourite bands with the track “Envelope”.

Consisting of 90s punk guitarist Christina Billotte (Slant 6) and Kathi Wilcox (Bikini Kill), the band’s latest 2022 release Sanguine Truth gets another listen on a chill weekend morning.

The Vanishing‘s “Lovesick” from their second and final album Still Lifes Are Failing is a somewhat obscure yet prevailing dancefloor classic from San Francisco’s dark synth-punk scene of the early 2000s.

“Themes For Great Cities” by one of my faves from that era, Glasgow’s Simple Minds, opens 1981’s Sister Feelings Call… or Sons And Fascination?

World Of Rubber by UK post-punk duo Second Layer was lucky find from many years ago, and its closing track “Black Flowers” a moody fave.

The sole LP by the short-lived Beautiful Skin, an American electronic duo working with sounds preceding the minimal wave revival, from hardcore roots.

Released in 1981, the track “Dark Rooms” by the short-lived Chicago post-punk group DA! goes for slow moving dramatics with accompanying promo video.

November Group were a Boston-based, Europe-leaning post-punk group brought to my attention by a friend I met on tour many years ago.

With darker post-punk music being spoken more and more in many different languages, the band Eirin Peryglus is one of the few I know of sung in Welsh.

After connecting with the Finnish synth punk/EBM duo Aus Tears in my travels, I gave their latest release Structure and Collapse a listen.

A brief look at the track “My Blues Is You” by the classic Italian dark post-punk/new wave group Neon and their fusion of guitars and electronics.

The Monorchid were a short-lived Washington DC band coming from a long lineage of players in that scene, resulting in a unique, wire-y sound.

The long closing track from The Idiot (1977) by Iggy Pop, featuring some interesting synthesizer work with repetition that brings to mind Drive Like Jehu.