The Sanctuary Gazette

Gloria de Oliveira releases the single Leda Saw Eyes on 28 October 2026, an ethereal wave release on La Double Vie, the label she founded herself.

A German-Brazilian artist, she is both a musician and a visual artist. Trained at the London drama school, she has worked for stage, film and radio, and has played roles in Babylon Berlin and in Undine, Christian Petzold's 2020 film.

In 2018, she won the Krach + Getoese prize, a Hamburg scheme supporting young musicians. It enabled her to record the EPs La Rose de Fer and Lèvres de Sang at the analogue studio Clouds Hill Recordings, released in 2019 as a limited cassette via La Double Vie and Dispersion. Her debut album, Fascination, came out in early 2020 on Reptile Music and Cargo Records.

Dead Man's Bones, the duo of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, release Lost In The Night on ANTI- Records. It is their first music since their 2009 self-titled album.

Produced with longtime collaborator Tim Anderson, the track combines rattling drum machines, Bruce Springsteen-style grandeur, new wave synths and post-punk guitars. Gosling and Shields say they tried several Los Angeles studios without finding the sound they wanted, before heading to a farm on the outskirts with two guitars, two drum machines and two synthesizers, and recording the track in a single day. The result is rawer and more homemade than the 2009 record.

The video features Noah Jupe and Rain Spencer as young lovers leaving a cemetery for the lit streets of the city. The first album, recorded with the Silverlake Conservatory children's choir, blended gothic folk, old-school rock'n'roll and doo-wop.

Factory Floor will release One Trip on Phantasy Sound: a digital release next month, followed by vinyl on December 4. It is their first album since 2525, released in 2016. The band, which falls under electronic post-punk, are sharing the double single Continuation / One Trip to mark the occasion.

Continuation is described as dreamy, expansive and euphoric. One Trip leans toward the darker side of the band and is said to be one of their most intense dancefloor tracks.

The trio comprises Gabe Gurnsey (drums, percussion, electronics) and Nik Colk Void (modular synth, vocals), the original members, along with Joe Ward on percussion, who joined after Dominic Butler's departure. The band released their first album on DFA Records in 2012. Their return began in Montréal in 2024, when Alain Mongeau, founder of MUTEK, invited Void to reform Factory Floor for a live performance. Ten tracks are on the program, including Big Brain, Buzz Saw and Obsessed.

Declive, a dream pop and post-punk band formed in Valencia in 2022, released its debut album, El Final de Occidente, on October 16. The quintet is made up of Rafeta Mansanet, Pablo Villegas, Pablo Gil, Jordi Sendra and Irina Navarro. It cites The Chameleons, Slowdive, Fontaines D.C., Triángulo de Amor Bizarro and La Plata among its influences. Before the album, it had released several singles and the EP Nuestro Abrazo (2025).

The album has eleven tracks, sung mostly in Castilian Spanish, except for Creure, which is in Valencian. Distorted guitars sit alongside luminous landscapes and melancholic atmospheres. The sound is brighter than on previous releases.

The lyrics respond to the uncertainty of today’s world, directly in Creure and more indirectly elsewhere, through metaphors and images of nature. The band also leaves room for hope: “we are also part of building it,” it says. Estrella en el pecho and Haz de luz are among the tracks mentioned.

Synthpop duo Unify Separate releases the single Heart Aches on October 30, 2026, self-released. It precedes the album The God Particle, due on November 6.

Leo takes the lead vocals, while Andrew stays in the background and backs him up. The song relies on synthesizers and big choruses. Ventilator and heart monitor sounds can also be heard in the background, their rhythm approaching a heartbeat in the second chorus.

The lyrics speak of love and loss in general terms: the person is gone, but the love remains. The Reflections of Darkness reviewer reports that Leo lost his father in March 2026, and that the cover shows two doves, as on his parents’ grave.

You Won't Fear Them is the live project of Emilia Celona, an Italian composer, singer and producer based in Barcelona. Her first single, Una sola, is out on October 30 with a video, and announces the album A wider spectrum, due on December 11 on vinyl and digitally via Bandcamp.

Celona has been a DJ for more than a decade under the name Omvra and also composes for dance pieces and sound installations. The project marks her move to the stage. The style is synth-punk: analog sequences, fast rhythms, abrasive tension. Una sola opens with a darkwave bassline, then a synthwave keyboard collides with the Italian vocals and their punk attitude. The lyrics are a feminist anthem.

The video, directed by Dársena Agencia Creativa, is released on October 30 at 9 a.m. on the project's YouTube channel. It combines archive footage of feminist struggles with collective action in the streets of Barcelona. Celona composes and produces the track, vocal recording and mixing are by Alex Brinken, and mastering is by M.A. Spaventi.