“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” [Oscar Wilde] Golden Apes – “Des Dossiers de Mémorie…” is a reflection of the band’s work from 2000 until October 2014 when “The Langsyne Litanies”, their latest and highly praised acoustic album was released.
“Welcome To The Heartland” is a postpunk/psychedelic concept album by the anonymous one man band (((S))) (Ungoogable- S) from Denmark. The eight regular dark sounding rock songs (with a spice of 60’s psychedelic garage) are intertwined with soundscapes introducing a retrospective narrative.
After “Riot”, the latest official output from 2012, the GOLDEN APES will release “The Langsyne Litanies” on October the 31st at last, for clearing the way for things to come.
After the rock oriented “Staying Alive in a Country Industrialized” in 2012 the musical journey of The Search entailed touring their native country Sweden, performing in Germany and recording their seventh long player “Our Need for Solace”. The Swedes, alongside the heart and soul of the band Razmig Tekeyan, have created a passage to their earlier works through a fusion of past and present.
The Swedish post punk / shoegaze band PRINCIPE VALIENTE and their dark architect Fernando Honorato, mesmerized their listeners with their exceptional self-titled debut album in 2011. With “Choirs of Blessed Youth” PRINCIPE VALIENTE have managed to make an irresistibly beautiful and intense continuation of what was started in their debut album. Resting in the shadowy arms of melancholy, their refined sound glistens with a coating of elegant darkness captivating the listener’s heart.
At the end of 2012 the Portuguese Indie Rock band SUPREME SOUL released their debut album “No One’s All”, a trip to the inner self, the grace and imperfection of human existence. The sound of the eleven songs is a mix of characteristic influences from Post Punk and New Wave of the 80s with a romantic and epic atmosphere.
In May this year, the Swedish post-punk / shoegaze band Principe Valiente, left the door to their new album a little ajar, allowing a glimpse of the collaboration with producer Niklas Björklund and star producer Ed Buller, who was responsible for mixing and mastering their first single “Take Me With You”. “She Never Returned” is now the second single of this collaboration, proving that the band continues to carve out their own path with excellent consistency.
“Era of the Penultimate Steps” was created within one year and the recording process was interrupted several times. But the goal was the same all the time and so a classic gothic rock album. in the tradition of bands such as Rosetta Stone, Morbid Poetry, The Cult or Fields of the Nephilim, was created.
After the successful debut EP “Ghosts”, released in August 2012, the texan post punkers around mastermind Toby Rider haven’t been idle. In February this year they released the EP’s title track in a “Kitty Lectro-Remix” as a free download single, which was approved with rapture. In April followed another free download single “First and Last and Always” as a tribut to the goth rock veterans The Sisters of Mercy.
The Single-EP “Leocadia” of the italian goth rockers Christine Plays Viola was strictly limited to 50 copies only, available exclusively via crowdfunding or on the concerts afterwards. Next to the title track the song “Scattered in the Dust (Slay with Dismay)”, which is available on youtube for quite a while and turned into a new hit, as well as “Whooshing Dissolution” and a live recording of “Keep My Scorn Warm” can be found.
