Category Archives: Immaterial Music

Buzzkill Certainly Don’t Live Up To Their Name With Electric “Wasteland” Album

Posted on January 15, 2026 by postpunkmonk

By the mid-80s I had turned into a Francophile due to the sad quality of the British music reaching my ears. I was terminally bored with House music and that’s all anyone and their pet ferrets were extruding in England’s … Continue reading →

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Claudia Brücken + Zeus B. Held Team Up…Finally, To Map “4 Ways To The Blitz”

Posted on January 14, 2026 by postpunkmonk

I was attending a fitness class with my wife last Saturday when the email arrived from Bandcamp and the Claudia Brücken xPropaganda account; stopping me in my tracks. A new single with Zeus B. Held and Claudia had just dropped … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas Mr. Linton: Fluid Japan And Jan Linton Team Once More For Cover Of “Forbidden Colours”

Posted on December 30, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Jan Linton + Fluid Japan: Forbidden Colours – HK/US – DL [2025] Last winter we enjoyed the crystalline beauty of Fluid Japan’s cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” where Fluid Japan, working with a piano recording by Reiko … Continue reading →

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Sorry We Weren’t Here Before Full EP “Forest Lights” Balanced Melody And Intensity To Hit A Post-Punk Target

Posted on December 15, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Last June we enjoyed the debut single of Berlin’s Sorry We Weren’t Here Before and have been waiting for the full EP which was released late October on Germany’s Agoge Records label. The trio have once more plowed deeply into … Continue reading →

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Bryan Ferry Archives Busy This Time Of Year With “Love Is The Drug” 12″ + DLX RM of “Bête Noire”

Posted on December 12, 2025 by postpunkmonk

I saw today that a new Roxy Music 12″ single was released; an omnibus collection of the foundational single “Love Is The Drug.” That got me looking at the Bryan Ferry website as well and wouldn’t you know it, a … Continue reading →

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Black Boiler With Bloom Weave Dark Disco Spell With “Pilot”

Posted on December 9, 2025 by postpunkmonk

This was something sleek and black so I thought we’d investigate this today. Black Boiler is the electric project of Laurent Audouin by way of Angers, France. Where he was once in an electropop band, Kyu, with Fabrice Nau of … Continue reading →

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Catching Up With Fluid Japan: A Burst Of Recent Singles Reveal New Facets

Posted on November 26, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Fluid Japan are A-list Bandcamp royalty to my ears during the last few years. I’ve been trying to follow their movements closely, but with the amount of travel and concerts I’ve seen lately, this has proven tricky. But today, we … Continue reading →

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