TERMINAL SERIOUS - Fear And Cufre (CD/ Vinyl / Digital) (SwissDarkNights) Terminal Serious, the solo project of Luigi Buonaiuto,knocks us out with the album Fear and Cure.He makes sturdy post-punkwith a touch of darkwave. I was already a fan,and on the first listen Terminal Serious confirmed across the board. Invited to a next (and next...) listening session, it becomes even more catchy. The album is full of good postpunk songs.Highlights? For me Necklace is so cheesy-catchy that you are pulled along in it, despite the charged atmosphere, happily swaying your hips .Add To The List has a bassline that dances around so sublimely that the guitars make a sensual dance around it. Ditto in Anyway, which goes towards darkwave. The synths that could come straight from a cathedral are subtly present. Secret Garden is a more shoegaze-like excursion in terms of sound. A slightly different rhythm section and a drumbeat that colors outside the lines. Another song that appealed to me more than the others is Walk On A Roof. Vocally dark as hell and a bass that hits even harder than in the other songs. This is absolutely another bull's eye.Do not hesitate: buy that stuff! [JB] KALTE NACHT -The Last Breath (Single (Digital)) (Cold Transmission Music) Nacht combines darkwave with a minimalist touch. Atmospheric, dark, carried by analogue synths and ditto drum machines. Myrto's voice absolutely completes the sound. The song has a rather philosophical approach about breathing and being oneself. We breathe automatically. It keeps us alive, we don't have to think about breathing.We trust it.But every breath is different.With exertion,we automatically start breathing faster and deeper; At rest, every breath of air is more subtle. Breathing helps to let go of things.And when we discard the old, a next breath brings us a new piece of being...As beautiful as the story behind it sounds, the song itself is even more beautiful. You feel and experience the automatism of the breathing that keeps us alive and shapes our being. In a solid synth-driven banger of a song.The voice that blows air into your ears so that you can feel how urgent that air is for us. Kalte Nacht's second album Urge announces itself so promisingly. [JB] THE HYBRIDS - In The Wake Of The Witch (Digital) Their latest release, “In The Wake Of The Witch,” blends traditional instruments and modern electronics to create a modern, tribal, and somewhat otherworldly atmosphere. The title track opens the album with a hypnotic and enchanting vibe. The album features diverse tracks like the industrial-tinged “Ritual For Pazuzu” and the rhythmic (3rioart) “Drum Wars,” designed to captivate listeners and transport them away from earthly realities into a trance-like state surrounded by mythical beings and perverse gods. Tracks like “Warriors Code”and “Grande Est La Morte”offer a blend of rhythmic intensity and ethereal vocals, emphasizing themes of struggle and mortality. The music is rich and evocative, with many tracks around ten minutes long. The album "In The Wake Of The Witch" demonstrates Hybryds at their best,merging ancient and modern elements, masculine and feminine energies,and exploring themes of sin and pleasure,beauty and decay, fear and hope, all within a transcendent musical journey incorporating industrial, ritual, tribal, and ambient influences. [KI] LOVATARAXX - Tilda Vaast (Single (Digital)) LOVATARAXX is back with a new album called 'Sophomore'. As a taster, we get the first single "Tilda Vaast". LOVATARAXX about the single: "How can we maintain our intimacy when we are stuck in a public space? When confronted with loneliness or sadness, we wish we could make the whole world around us disappear. Tilda Vaast doesn't feel at home during her stay in the city of Marseille. She wants to blur all boundaries, she harbors a deep resentment and would like to teleport or dissolve herself, away from space and time." We'll have to wait until April 5th for the release of 'Sophomore'. The single already makes lovers of darkwave/synthwave/coldwave stoked. On the announced album they go back in time to the 80s-90s, where cold synths and SF-like sounds form a perfect cocktail.'Tilda Vaast' definitely sounds like that. [JB] www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 24 - Read full reviews on http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/reviews/ (Cold Transmission Music)
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