Schonwald have announced their new album Night Idyll will be out June 1st via Manic Depression Records.
The Italian duo of Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini focus on a darkwave atmospheric sound that is minimalist, synthetic and hypnotic drawing inspiration from New Order, The Cure, Suicide with guitars echoing My Bloody Valentine and Curve.
A first album Amplified Nature was released in 2009 (Pocket Heaven Records – Lux). Two releases followed, Dream for the Fall (2014) and Between Parallel Lights (2015), collaborations between the French labels Manic Depression and Anywave.
The new album is now available for pre-order via Bandcamp and the duo have released, “Love Collides” as a preface to their dark sound that can be witnessed live on their Night Idyll tour that started April 1st and continues:
- May 19 Cueva Rock – Cagliari + Digital Disorder, Uncodified
- June 8 Bus Palladium – Paris + Soror Dolorosa
- September 8 NCN – Nocturnal Culture Night – Leipzig
- November 25 SOUNDFIELDS WAVE – Deinze + Ash Code, She Past Away