Forbidden Songs (open to pre-orders) release date 1 August 2026 - Forbidden Songs is the fourth full-length studio album by post-punk'er and the most uncompromising exploration of the project's darker and more experimental direction.

Across fourteen interconnected compositions, the album abandons conventional songwriting in favor of hypnotic repetition, fragmented structures and slowly evolving soundscapes. Obsessive melodic bass lines, tribal rhythms, angular guitars, sparse analog textures and moments of deliberate silence create an atmosphere where tension grows through subtle transformation rather than dramatic climaxes.

Lyrically, Forbidden Songs inhabits a world where memory, isolation, identity and unseen forces constantly blur the boundary between reality and imagination. Stories remain incomplete, conversations begin without context, familiar places become unsettling, and ordinary moments slowly dissolve into psychological landscapes open to the listener's own interpretation.

Rather than relying on nostalgia or recreating the sound of a particular era, the album draws inspiration from the raw spirit of the earliest underground post-punk recordings while forging its own musical language : minimal, intimate and emotionally restrained. Every composition develops patiently, allowing repetition, texture and atmosphere to become equal partners in the storytelling.

Recorded with an intentionally organic approach, Forbidden Songs embraces human imperfections, restrained performances and spacious arrangements over polished production or commercial expectations. The result is an album that rewards immersion, revealing new details and emotional connections with each listen.

More than a collection of songs, Forbidden Songs is a continuous journey through uncertainty, disappearance, fragmented memories and quiet transformation - an album where silence carries as much meaning as sound, and where every note exists only because it belongs there.

A Shadow in the Night (maxi single) , release date : 01 August 2026 is the first chapter of a new trilogy by post-punk'er, exploring the fragile space between memory, obsession and acceptance. Built around hypnotic bass lines, angular guitars and raw analog textures, the song draws inspiration from the darker edge of early 1980s underground post-punk while forging its own identity through cinematic arrangements and experimental sound design.

Rather than relying on polished melodies, the music thrives on tension, fragmented guitar figures, moments of silence, metallic percussion and restrained vocals drift around an obsessive rhythmic pulse, creating an atmosphere that feels both intimate and unsettling. The result is a song that invites movement as much as reflection: danceable, melancholic and uncompromisingly dark.

This Maxi Single expands the world of A Shadow in the Night with extended versions, alternate interpretations and immersive instrumentals, allowing the hypnotic atmosphere to unfold beyond the original recording.

Serving as the opening chapter of a three-song narrative that continues with One More and concludes with Last One, the release follows the emotional journey from longing and haunting memories, through repetition and inner conflict, to the quiet acceptance of finally letting go.

Recorded with an intentionally raw, organic production, A Shadow in the Night embraces human imperfections, analog warmth and the restless spirit of classic post-punk where the bass carries the melody, the guitars create instability, and silence becomes as expressive as sound.

Track List :

A shadow in the night A shadow in the night (crowling) A shadow in the night (extended) A shadow in the night (raw) A shadow in the night (unseen) One more The Last One

A Shadow in the Night is available digitally on all major streaming platforms and in high-quality download formats through post-punker.com, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the evolving sound of post-punk'er.

Boema Bacoviană (release date : 15/08/2026) is a conceptual post-punk album in which post-punk'er reinterprets the timeless poetry of George Bacovia through a fragmented, dark and ritualistic musical language. Rather than modernizing the poems or transforming them into conventional songs, the album preserves their original verses, allowing the poetry itself to become the narrator while the music unfolds as an extension of Bacovia's emotional universe.

George Bacovia remains one of the defining voices of Romanian literature, combining the refined sensibilities of French Symbolism with the stark vision of early Modernism. His poetry is marked by existential despair, urban decay, profound isolation and the haunting atmosphere that has become synonymous with the term "Bacovian." Through recurring images of winter, autumn, rain, abandoned streets, cemeteries, silence, illness and death, Bacovia transformed ordinary landscapes into psychological states where the external world mirrors the collapse of the inner self.

Boema Bacoviană embraces these themes through hypnotic repetition, restrained narration, long instrumental passages and minimalist arrangements. Instead of traditional verse–chorus structures, the compositions unfold like forgotten rituals or old stories whispered from memory. Silence becomes part of the music, while repetition slowly builds emotional tension without seeking dramatic resolution.

This is not a tribute album in the conventional sense. It is an artistic dialogue across time , where one of Romania's greatest poets meets the language of fragmented post-punk. The poems remain untouched, but their atmosphere is expanded into immersive sonic landscapes that preserve their melancholy while revealing new emotional dimensions.

The album explores solitude not as emptiness, but as a place of reflection; winter not merely as a season, but as a permanent state of mind; and memory as something fragile, slowly dissolving beneath layers of silence and time. Every track invites the listener into abandoned parks, dimly lit streets, empty rooms and snow-covered landscapes where the boundary between dream, memory and reality gradually disappears.

With Boema Bacoviană, post-punk'er continues the exploration of experimental and literary post-punk, creating an album where poetry is not simply accompanied by music - it becomes inseparable from it. The result is a deeply atmospheric journey through one of the darkest and most evocative bodies of work in Romanian literature, reimagined through obsessive rhythms, restrained storytelling and haunting minimalism.

A new chapter begins.

On 16 July, post-punk’er unveils his third post-punk album , a work shaped by experimental minimalism, shadowed atmospheres, and the restless spirit of darkwave. Expanding on the world introduced in Illogical Sounds, this record pushes further into tension, space, and controlled restraint.

Driven by cold basslines, skeletal rhythms, and fractured textures, the album draws from the raw edge of early post-punk and avant-garde minimalism - resulting in something both intimate and distant, melodic yet unsettling.

This release also comes with three exclusive bonus tracks, available to everyone who downloads the album: Dissolution (Ethereal Mix) Pulse (Ian’s Mix) Stone Grinder (Extended Mix)

Visually and sonically, it continues the Dark Downs aesthetic - monochrome tension, fragments of light in deep shadow, and movement through isolation.

The album will be released on 16 July and available on all major streaming platforms.

Stay tuned for previews, singles, and further announcements.

Undesirable ( maxi single) - released in 06.07.2026 continues the darker and more confrontational direction of post-punk’er’s recent material, transforming alienation into something physical, rhythmic and strangely triumphant. Released as a standalone maxi single, the track abandons nostalgic romanticism in favor of fractured identity, social decay and personal defiance, delivered through obsessive basslines, tribal live drums and raw theatrical vocals that feel suspended somewhere between ritual and collapse. Musically, the single draws heavily from the colder and more aggressive side of early 80s gothic post-punk and darkwave, combining hypnotic floor-tom driven rhythms, angular low-gain guitars and atonal textures with a deliberately unpolished analog production aesthetic.

Fatigué de ce monde (released date : 01.07.2026) marks the first fully French-language release from post-punk’er, moving deeper into the colder and more minimal territory of early 80s French coldwave and post-punk. Built around repetitive basslines, dry mechanical rhythms, angular guitars, tape-textured production, and detached nocturnal atmospheres, the album embraces the raw realism and emotional distance of underground cassette-era recordings rather than modern polished production.

Across tracks such as L’amour est une maladie, L’alchimie entre nous, Argument mineur, Déçus de nous, Rues désertes, Promenades nocturnes, and C’est comme ça que tu es, the record drifts through late-night urban spaces, empty cafés, métro corridors, anonymous apartments, and fragmented conversations, capturing themes of emotional distance, routine, disillusionment, and urban isolation through restraint and repetition.

Avoiding commercial structures and cinematic excess, the album remains intentionally minimal, monochrome, and psychologically tense, drawing inspiration from the darker and more experimental side of the French coldwave movement while preserving the analog imperfections and fragile humanity that defined the underground post-punk scene of the 1980s.

As a side project within the broader post-punk’er catalogue, Fatigué de ce monde explores a distinctly French identity, both lyrically and musically, serving as a dedicated homage to the cold, theatrical, and introspective atmosphere of French coldwave.

The album will be available exclusively through the official post-punk’er website and will not be distributed to streaming platforms or third-party stores, making it a standalone and limited release within the post-punk’er universe.

L’alchimie entre nous Maxi Single released 1 july 2026 L’alchimie entre nous is a collection of alternate versions and companion pieces drawn from the world of Fatigué de ce monde, the first French-language release from post-punk’er. Expanding on the cold, intimate atmosphere of the album, this maxi single explores different perspectives of the same emotional landscape through reworked arrangements, alternate mixes, and companion tracks.

Built around repetitive basslines, minimal mechanical rhythms, angular guitars, and raw analog textures, the release remains deeply rooted in the spirit of early French coldwave and underground post-punk. Each version shifts the balance between intimacy, distance, tension, and abstraction while preserving the monochrome atmosphere and cassette-era realism that define the project.

The maxi single includes:

Déçus de nous (Encore Mix) Fatigué de ce monde (Distant Mix) L’alchimie entre nous (Blume Mix) L’alchimie entre nous (Mendel Mix) L’alchimie entre nous (Original Version) L’alchimie entre nous (Hasard Mix) L’amour est une maladie (Malad Mix)

Moving between melancholic urban landscapes, emotional disconnection, fragile intimacy, and nocturnal reflection, L’alchimie entre nous serves as a companion release to Fatigué de ce monde, offering an alternative view into the same cold and introspective universe.

Available exclusively through post-punk’er.com, this limited maxi single is part of the French coldwave side project and will not be distributed through streaming platforms or third-party retailers.

Isolated Tracks II (released date : 01.05.2026) continues the same in-between space - where songs exist without a fixed place, shaped in moments that resist structure and expectation. If the first collection gathered what was left behind, this one moves closer to what lingers - quieter, heavier, and more persistent.

These tracks are not bound by a shared narrative. Each stands alone again: a pulse, a memory, a brief transmission before it dissolves. Yet together, they form a deeper drift through shadow and rhythm - post-punk movement tightened, darkwave textures more defined, the silence between sounds more deliberate.

Where the first volume was a pause, Isolated Tracks II feels like a return to that same space, but changed. The ghosts remain, but they move differently now - less distant, more present.

This is still not an album in the traditional sense. It is the continuation of a space between - a second gathering of what refused to fade, and what quietly came back.

Isolated Tracks II continues the space between albums , a collection of standalone songs shaped in quiet moments and driven by instinct. Each track exists on its own, yet together they deepen the atmosphere of post-punk rhythm and darkwave shadow. Not a conventional album, but a return to unfinished thoughts - a second gathering of fragments that refused to disappear.