PTT - Rock Wing - Black Like Tar | 1985 Darkwave |

A DESPERATE LONGING. CAN YOU HANDLE A HOPELESS LOVE ? A Next stop on the PTT-Rock Wing: 1985 - DARKWAVE Still dark (hence the name), but now deeply romantic. Haunting synths, cold streets, unreachable love. https://musicmap.info/ says: ----------fragment---------- After the heydays of the few early Gothic Rock pioneers, the Gothic movement took their legacy and started creating darker, more melancholic music with haunting synth melodies, drum machines, and Post-Punk guitar riffs. The introvert lyrics were typically about Gothic (romantic) topics. This darker form of New Wave (usually it was more Post-Punk than New Wave) was called Darkwave. Darkwave emerged in Germany as a second wave of Gothic Rock. It merged with Synthpop, and thus became much more electronic. ------------------------------- Well, the “haunting unreachable love” part is my own takeaway of the genre. Darkwave can move in many directions, (and I like the haunting unreachable love part) So here’s the story. I guess if you ever had an unreachable hopeless crush on someone… This might resonate with you. ******************story************* At night she haunts his dreams. During the day he catches fragments of her everywhere he turns. A shadow beneath a streetlamp, the outline of her figure disappearing into the rain. Whenever she draws near, she is gone again the next moment. Turning away. Fading into the night as she walks past him at a deserted train platform, leaving only the scent of perfume in her wake. A silhouette behind curtains across the street. A brief glance through wet hair and dim light. Eyes that never truly acknowledge him. And still his heart races at the sound of her voice. His stomach turns at the mere glimpse of her face obscured beneath raven-black strands. If only he could have one brief moment… #darkwave