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Dark Synthetics

by Secret Shame

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    European edition

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dark Synthetics via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Gift 03:22
2.
Comfort 03:07
3.
Creature 03:11
4.
Dark 03:19
5.
Haunter 04:34
6.
Calm 04:34
7.
Storm 04:12

about

Even if it's a difficult period for all of us, we decided to spread a very good news. Taxi Driver Records will release Secret Shame's debut album on June 26th! They're a super cool post punk band from North Carolina (USA).
"Dark Synthetics" was first self-released in November 2019 and then re-issued on vinyl and cassette format. Now it will be finally available on CD for all many European fans too!
Secret Shame play an old-school gothic rock wisely mixing reverbs, space guitars, martial rhythms and dream-pop ethereal melodies. Lena has a beautiful and evocative voice that will lead you back to the time, when Siouxsie was the undisputed queen of the scene.

"Too dark and theatrical for punk, but too punk for some of the goth kids", Secret Shame have released one of the more interesting debuts of the last years.
For every kind of rock-lovers, but especially for post-punk, dark rock, death rock, gothic fanatics.


"There’s a rage trembling under the group’s chiming post-punk, which winds itself around an ultimatum about self-preservation..." - The New York Times

"Secret Shame channel both the tragic beauty and spooky ambience of a graveyard." - Paste Magazine

"Secret Shame’s new album Dark Synthetics is a seven-song tempest of guitar-driven dark post-punk in the vein of Skeletal Family, Rubella Ballet, and Look Back in Anger." - post-punk.com

"The band thunder around Lena like a horde of bats..." - bandcamp.com

"I can’t get over the vocals – they soar high above many out there right now. Not only am I transfixed by the vocal tone, but also the driving and intense music that the whole band creates." - CVLT Nation

"Secret Shame make gloomy, melodic rock steeped in '80s goth and post-punk." - BrooklynVegan

credits

released June 26, 2020

Lena - vocals, lyrics, synth
Matthew - bass, synth
Nathan - drums
Billie - guitar, synth
Ryynikki - guitar


Recorded and mixed by Ricky Olson at The Ward in Richmond, VA January 25-27th, 2019
Mastered by Bryan Walthall at Stereo Image
Logo by Ayana Price
Cover painting and singles art series by Lena
Layout and design by Nathan

Digital download, vinyl, cd (US versione) and cassette are available here:
secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dark-synthetics

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Taxi Driver Records Genova, Italy

Italian label focused on stoner, doom, sludge, noise rock, hardcore, post hardcore, experimental. Based in Genova.

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