Icy Cold Records – ICR128-LP (2024) Echoberyl : Alternative Rock / Cold Wave Duo from Paris,France Through the Chaos is a journey into the twilight zone. Lost in the mist, we encounter tormented beings, reflections of ourselves living in parallel dimensions. An exploration infused with dark sounds, inviting us to embrace the unfamiliar and to dive deep into our inner selves. Three years after "Mother Solitude and Other Dark Tales", Echoberyl return with a full-length album that is a tribute to "parallel worlds", to mystery literature (and a certain type of B-series movies and TV shows). A twilight zone populated with bewitching and evil, mysterious and troubled female characters. Music by Echoberyl, lyrics by Cecilia Dassonneville Produced, mixed and mastered by Adriano Iacoangeli in Paris, Meaux and Montreuil, France Bandcamp 試聴 https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr128-echoberyl-through-the-chaos

Icy Cold Records – ICR104-LP (2023) The Exploding Boy : Postpunk indie band from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2006 and named after a song from The Cure. Re-release of the highly praised 2007 debut album (released on CD only), completely re-mastered, for the first time ever available on Vinyl, and including an exclusive bonus-Track! This special ‘Anniversary Edition’ (coming with 1 year of delay actually…) also contains a full colour Vinyl-sized Lyrics sheet, with lots of band-pictures from 15 years ago... The Exlpoding Boy are a Swedish Postpunk band, founded in 2006 and named after a song by The Cure. After 3 albums on the Swedish 'Ad Inexplorata' label (Twice a Man, Karin My, Fake Moss...), in 2013 the band signed to Drakkar/SONY, who later also re-released 2 of their previous albums, and toured Europe extensively, including celebrated appearences at many important festivals. The Exploding Boy member Johan Sjöblom also released a highly regarded and successful Solo-album on Manic Depression (CD: 2016, Vinyl: 2021). Bandcamp 試聴 https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr104-the-exploding-boy-the-exploding-boy-remastered-deluxe-edition

Icy Cold Records – ICR109-LP (2023) ヴェルヴェット・コンドームのアイコニックウェーブからリスト・ノワールのリズミカルなビートまでアリス・ギフトは常に前衛的なポストパンクミュージックの代名詞となってきました。ベルリンを拠点に活動するフランス系ドイツ人マエストロが帰ってきて, 最新作 「Nothing Against Uplifting But ...」 をリリース。 シューゲイズ, ダークウェーブ, シンセポップを無理なく融合させたスタイルで アリスギフトのステージでの存在感は, やはり衝撃的としか言いようがありません。そして, この音楽の旅に出ているのは彼だけではない。彼の耳のソウルメイトであるジャミラ・パリスはドラムと鍵盤の才能を発揮し, 今日まで二人は ベルリンノイケルン地区にある墓地の静かな隅にひっそりと佇む地下室に安住の地を見出しています。Pride (Prequel) はVelvet Condomでできたハイライト! From the iconic waves of Velvet Condom to the rhythmic beats of Liste Noire, Alice Gift has always been a name synonymous with avant-garde post-punk music. Now, the Berlin-based Franco-German maestro is back, unveiling his latest work, “Nothing against uplifting but …”. With a style that effortlessly marries shoegaze, darkwave, and synthpop, Alice’s stage presence is still nothing short of electrifying. And he’s not alone in this musical journey. His aural soulmate Djamila Paris showcases her prowess on drums and keys, and to this day, the pair find sanctuary in a crypt nestled in the quiet corners of Neukölln/Berlin cemetery. Pride (Prequel) is a highlight that could have been done by Velvet Condom ! Bandcamp 試聴 https://cymbelinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/alice-gift-nothing-against-uplifting-but

Icy Cold Records – ICR115, No Need Name – NNN-VNC-001 (2023) Born out from the ’80s underground music’s nurtured deviant imagination of Lula Borgia, with the prompt addition of Valentine Dedieu on the machines, the ‘sanguine pop’ French duo Venin Carmin delivers, since 2017, an uncompromising, unapologetic blend of New Wave with blood-red Pop and Cold Punk. The “H2D” single is the best way to enter into their universe. Dystopic, jeering, heady moods stir up bouncy skipping rhythms, throbbing resonant bass lines, frenzied icy bright melodies, and warped echoing stabs, to sway in chilly, dire frequencies around catchy layered vocals, releasing taunting laughs, caustic cries, and trippy echoes, into a detached chaos of surreal grooves. Immersive and imaginative, the visuals shuffle a brash and sassy performance by Venin Carmin with symbolic black-and-white scenes to sync seamlessly with the busy, in-yourface, energy of the soundtrack. Eye-catching wardrobe, fantasy make-up, and edgy attitudes set the stage for a day-to-night transition where the dynamic duo wanders from the graveyard to a strobing party scene, without missing a dramatic beat. Bandcamp 試聴 https://venincarmin.bandcamp.com/album/toxic-legends https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr115-venin-carmin-toxic-legends

Icy Cold Records – ICR115, No Need Name – NNN-VNC-001 (2023) Born out from the ’80s underground music’s nurtured deviant imagination of Lula Borgia, with the prompt addition of Valentine Dedieu on the machines, the ‘sanguine pop’ French duo Venin Carmin delivers, since 2017, an uncompromising, unapologetic blend of New Wave with blood-red Pop and Cold Punk. The “H2D” single is the best way to enter into their universe. Dystopic, jeering, heady moods stir up bouncy skipping rhythms, throbbing resonant bass lines, frenzied icy bright melodies, and warped echoing stabs, to sway in chilly, dire frequencies around catchy layered vocals, releasing taunting laughs, caustic cries, and trippy echoes, into a detached chaos of surreal grooves. Immersive and imaginative, the visuals shuffle a brash and sassy performance by Venin Carmin with symbolic black-and-white scenes to sync seamlessly with the busy, in-yourface, energy of the soundtrack. Eye-catching wardrobe, fantasy make-up, and edgy attitudes set the stage for a day-to-night transition where the dynamic duo wanders from the graveyard to a strobing party scene, without missing a dramatic beat. Bandcamp 試聴 https://venincarmin.bandcamp.com/album/toxic-legends https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr115-venin-carmin-toxic-legends

Icy Cold Records – ICR088-LP (2022) Electronic Producer From Paris, France. Bandcamp https://sydneyvalette.bandcamp.com/album/other-side-lp3 https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr088-sydney-valette-other-side

Icy Cold Records – ICR069-LP, Manic Depression – MD136-LP (2022) Winter Severity Index comes with its third LP with a new approach in composition, renovated inspirations but the same attention to sound research. A massive presence of synths, played by both Simona and Alessandra, no more bass guitar and rare guitar phrases with the familiar Simona's liquid new wave sound, as a sort of trademark of the project. The name of the album, deliberately in Italian to underline the intimate and personal urge of expression of its contents by the two musicians, is connected with the idea of change. DISGELO (Thaw but also detente) is about the necessity of adaptation to new phases that unavoidably occur in everyone's existence. This process emerges in all its difficulties but also in its fascinating aspects: farewells, passages of time, death, cosmic cycles, climate changes, but also the insuppressible urge of discovery and confrontation, the opening to love and new relationships, everything related with putting ourselves under question with the unavoidable consequence of a deeper self awareness and a true admission of responsibility in our choices. The LP was composed and recorded mostly before the pandemic period and already presented as live preview in Cologne, Madrid and Stockholm with great appreciation by the audience. It will be released on February 2022,19th by Manic Depression and Icy Cold in CD format and a vinyl release is programmed for the next spring by Blood Rock Records. Bandcamp https://winterseverityindex.bandcamp.com https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr069-winter-severity-index-disgelo https://manicdepressionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/md136-winter-severity-index-disgelo

Icy Cold Records – ICR070-LP (2022) "JE T’AIME is a Parisian, Post Punk, Cold Wave hybrid, reminiscent of the great Mancunian Factory era and suffused with hints of the Smiths." dBoy, Tall Bastard and Crazy Z. are "partners in crime". Merging electro-clash, new-wave, and post-punk, they founded JE T'AIME in 2018 and released a first eponymous album carved in the stones of the goth caves of old Europe.The music of the trio is reminiscent of the great era of the Mancunian Factory. From its first year,the band took part in some major events such as W-Fest and Owls &Bats Festival, while per-forming all over Europe. A live album called « Live at Gibus » recorded in Paris, followed imme-diately as a marker of this spectacular start.In 2021, the silence of the three men reached a point where their label began to wonder whether they were a real band and musicians capable of writing other records, or another ephemeral talent. But the band was focusing on a more important work. They'd secluded themselves on the Brittany coast recording «PASSIVE/AGRESSIVE», an ambitious double-album.The first part «PASSIVE» will be released on Valentine's day: February 14th, 2022. The second one « AGRESSIVE » will follow next october.The first single off «PASSIVE» were «Another Day in Hell» and «Give Me nore Kohl», for which the band released two powerful music videos, a living testimony of the past ceremonies that were 80’s goth parties! «PASSIVE» is the central link of a trilogy started by the eponymous album of the band. It is also the albumawaited by the band’s fanbase as either a confirmation of their talent, or as their fall as a short-lived phenomemon. We follow the evolution of the same antihero, whom we had left in bad shape in the previous album. But is he all that fictional tough ? He appears to look more and more like a common avatar of the 3 musicians. The tone hardens, the atmosphere becomes more melancholic, and the lyrics embrace bitterness and anger.If this episode is called «PASSIVE» despite its obvious energy, what can be expected of the next chapter that will close the trilogy «AGRESSIVE», coming in october ? Bandcamp https://jetaime-music.bandcamp.com/album/passive

Manic Depression – MD128-LP, Icy Cold Records – ICR045-LP (2020) Jackson VanHorn is a Shoegaze / Post Punk artist from Indianapolis, IN, United States. I feel that this record is even more relevant now than when it was conceived earlier this year - drawing heavily on the ever-present hypocrisy of surrounding ideology & the decay brought forth from the despair of an illusory social reign of religion and capital that ultimately guide our collective human condition. These are themes that will continue in my music as it reflects reality & I hope to challenge the listener by bearing these sentiments which mirror a harbored truth. Bandcamp https://jacksonvanhorn.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rehearsal

Icy Cold Records – ICR030-LP (2022) The fourth album from Liverpool's Double Echo, adding elements of dream-pop, giallo and electronic experimentation to their established mix of post-punk and darkwave. “Burning In Blue" was released on CD in January 2020 and offers nine darkwave tracks with mostly ethereal and introspective tones, as if the setting was that of a Victorian house haunted by ghosts, and in this sense the cover image evokes these feelings, keeping in line with the atmosphere of the previous album (on Gothic Records), with respect to which there is a greater cohesion, for a songwriting and production certainly superior. Double Echo began in 2012 as a studio collaboration between producers Chris Luna (San Diego,California) and Ash Lerczak (Liverpool, UK) that set out to re-mystify the forgotten practices of post-punk and primitive soundtrack electronica in the guise of a lost band from 1982 whose demo tape 4AD never got around to listening to. Since then, the band released 3 regular albums [and 4 EPs] on Edils Recordings and Gothic Music Records and released their 5th album on FABRIKA last year! Bandcamp https://doubleecho.bandcamp.com/album/burning-in-blue-2

Select-A-Vision Records – V12IN001 (2021) オーストラリア出身のシンガーソングライターBrigitte Handley (The Dark Shadows) シドニーのクリエイティブグループ Matahari Ranch(MHR)との共同シングル "Köln-Visions EPのアイデアを探求し始めたとき,初めて見知らぬ土地にやってきたときにこの街が私に与えてくれた気分や感情をどうやって捕らえようかと考えました。私は異なる世界に足を踏み入れたときに感じた興奮, 恐怖, 不安, そして驚きを個人的に芸術的,新しい道へと私を駆り立てたものを伝えたかったのです" "これらの歌はケルンの街で私の時間の様々な章を表しています... 思考とビジョンと存在の状態...同様に自分自身の人生を切り取ったものを私はただこのEPへと導いていたと思います" 心,社会の闇の深淵から 光,希望へとつながる珠玉の全5曲 https://brigittehandley.bandcamp.com/album/k-ln-visions-2