“Deep Hate” - Buzz Kull
Released February 13, 2026 through Heartworm.File under: goth/industrial electronic
Buzz Kull is the alter ego of Sydney’s Marc Dwyer, who has been performing under that pseudonym since 2012, and with his fourth full length offering Deep Hate he creates a dark dancefloor, a goth club, a grungey back alley and a dark place within a disturbed psyche. At moments Nine Inch Nails of the Pretty Hate Machine era, at other times evoking sounds from Depeche Mode’s Stripped.
The album is actually only a 4 track EP but included are remixes of the four tracks which lend a deeper and darker lens to some of the tracks here. Full of angst and familiar sounds, Deep Hate has a life of its own that can’t be denied.
From Buzz Kull’s Deep Hate Bandcamp Page:
Buzz Kull’s music conjures the psychic terrain of late-night streets and flickering club strobes, a shadowplay of unnerving synth lines, downcast drum machines, and devotional hooks that feel at once intimate and apocalyptic. His work stands as a modern continuation of the lineage defined by Black Celebration era Depeche Mode and the militant body rhythms of Front 242, but distilled through a distinctly contemporary lens.
For those who enjoy Working Men’s Club, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and dark synth-pop in general.
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“Wuthering Heights” - Charli xcx
Released February 13, 2026 through Atlantic.File under: alt pop/soundtrack
After BRAT it is said that Charli xcx found herself with a writers block, unable to create new music and very frustrated with that predicament, until out of the blue she received anonymous correspondence from an unknown source, asking her to contribute a song for the soundtrack to an upcoming movie adaptation of the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. As it turns out, that correspondence was made by the director Emerald Fennell (Anna Karenina, Killing Eve), to which she responded with this epic soundtrack/album.
The track she completed for the film was entitled House, which she asked legendary musician John Cale of The Velvet Undeground to join her on the track, lending vocals and no doubt the inspiration for the squealing violins in the track. Lyrically the track sets the scene for the classic ghost story with these haunting lyrics, half spoken by Cale himself:
Can I speak to you privately for a moment?I just want to explainExplain the circumstances I find myself inWhat and who I really amI’m a prisoner, to live for eternity
I was thinking, “What is this place?”I thought it would be perfectI thought, “I want it to be perfect”Please, let it be perfect…I think I’m gonna die in this… house
The remainder of the album is much more pop-driven, but is no less compelling. Throughout the tells the story of Katheleen from Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, creating an utterly contemporary version of the music, far removed from Kate Bush’s 1970’s version, but sharing the self-same sentiment.
Below is the clip for House, directed by Mitch Ryan:
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