The post-punk years of the early eighties were always a melting pot of new sounds as man and machine – in this case, disenfranchised ex-punks who had swapped their guitars for newly affordable synths – came together in unholy unison to usher in a time of colliding worlds and emerging formative scenes and sounds. Today’s digital creatives have much more accessible technologies at their disposal, but the ethic remains the same.
Darkwave, perhaps more than any other sound, that collision point between gothic shade and cool keyboard sounds, futuristic vibes, and danceable grooves, sat at the heart of that new sonic world, and today, artists such as Sirenglas have much in common with those times.
“Dance With Me (In Oblivion)” runs on those classic cool, clinical, robotic beats and brooding bass lines; guitars wander in and out, often off-kilter, warped and distorted, and the vocals soar in an arabesque, orchestral evocation that echoes of the dulcet and devastating voice of Siouxsie Sioux and perhaps even Ofra Haza’s iconic collaboration with The Sisters of Mercy.
But that was then, and this is now, and now, it is about carrying a torch into the future. Darkwave is still alive and grooving, and this single is the proof, a sonic wraith that has lurked in the basement clubs of Berlin, the underground venues of London, and the record collections of creatures of the night across the globe for decades, waiting for the clock to strike thirteen as a signal to reemerge into the moonlight. Well, here is that chime ringing out, here is the call to arms, that time is upon us.
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