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Elektrokohle Darkwave Garage Rock Single “I Wanna Cry” is a Song About Yearning to Break Out of Emotional Paralysis

Elektrokohle, photo courtesy the artists

Elektrokohle waste no time getting into the thick of “I Wanna Cry” and its urgent mix of dark post-punk noisy punk driven by a motorik beat. In the black and white music video and it’s flashing lights, stark shadows, haunted underground settings and those more like the interior of a repurposed, abandoned school the band looks like a darkwave version of some kind of psychedelic garage rock band from Memphis or The Cramps. And this aesthetic reinforces the desperate themes of the song of feeling stuck and despairing at not being able to satisfy a loved one and give them what they want and vice versa and not knowing how to break out of that terrible emotional deadlock. Elektrokohle perfectly captures that breaking point of not knowing what to do next but knowing that maybe a good cry would purge that blockage of feeling and that sense of powerlessness. Watch the video for “I Wanna Cry” on YouTube and follow Berlin-based post-punk band Elektrokohle at the links below. “I Wanna Cry” is out now on a seven inch b/w “Abstand” available through the group’s Bandcamp page.

Elektrokohle website

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Elektrokohle’s Cold Punk Single “Vollmond” and its Expressionist Style Video Disorients as it Draws You In

Elektrokohle, photo courtesy the artists

Elektrokohle looks like commandeered a pirate television station in the video for “Vollmond” (in English, “Full Moon”) – all black and white, flickering images like reels projected onto a background. The motorik beats, metallic utility percussion and what could be processed guitar or synth, vocals sounding like they’re coming from a tunnel, a bit of German Expressionist aesthetic and a sense of traveling back and forth in time before crackling white noise spirals into the outro. It truly sounds like a music out of time with obvious sonic references to krautrock and early German industrial and post-punk but with a sound palette of its own that prevents discreet discernment of instrumentation so that the track has to be taken on as a whole that disorients as it draws you in. It’s a sound the band calls “Cold Punk” which encapsulates the diverse roots and influences nicely. Watch the video for “Vollmond” on YouTube and follow Berlin’s Elektrokohle at the links below.

Elektrokohle on Bandcamp