Higher Plain Music

Artoffact Records are a powerhouse when it comes to darkwave and goth pop music. This weekend, two of their bands, ACTORS and ULTRA SUNN, both released new singles in anticipation of new album cycles. If you are looking for your goth summer, here are two acts ready to provide.

ACTORS released their latest single, ‘Youth’, which is a glorious post-punk darkwave anthe...

Tender trip hop from the witches’ garden.

Tucked away as an EP released in 2012, ‘People Watching’ is Abigail Hubbard’s seemingly only release. I stumbled across it thanks to random Bandcamp recommendations. Whilst the internet is currently having a complete crisis of iden...

Back in 2023, I announced I was working on a VGM-inspired album that paid homage to folksy, ambient, and tribal-infused forest and temple themes from RPGs. I had to put that project on hold whilst my dad was terminally ill and my mum was in a coma, but I’ve been beavering away, and the album is now nearly ready for release.

‘Sunken Cascadia’ is the second song I’ve ...

Irish singer-songwriter Radie Peat has a voice that can captivate a room around the smallest of sounds. You may already know some of her music from the band Lankum, but Radie has now branched out into a solo project. Fusing the essence of folk music with some haunting sound design, her debut single ‘Still I Love Him’ is a practice of less is more. Radie’s voice has a traditio...

Dark synth-pop wading through the best of ’80s melancholy.

We love sad pop, especially when it comes wrapped up in 1980’s New Romantic drama and a garden shed of synths. William Barradale, the artist behind A Thousand Mad Things, states on their profile that they are a...