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Pink Turns Blue Make a Case For Hope in Basic Human Connections on the Melancholic Post-punk Single “Can’t Do Without You”

Mic Jogwer of Pink Turns Blue, photo by D. Vorndran

Pink Turns Blue takes on an uncomfortable personal truth on “Can’t Do Without You.” The gleaming drift of guitar riffs and the steady rhythm serves its meditational quality well. The touch of melancholic atmosphere sets the mood because the song and its powerful music video outline the personal cost of taking on a world seemingly filled with struggle and tragedy and now with global fascism rising and world powers either funding or doing little to stop obvious genocides it can feel hopeless and overwhelming unless you have some foundation of hope no matter what your place is in all of this mess when you’re not the people holding the reins of power. The song suggests that so much energy expended in the struggle for what’s right without a vision to drive it to give a guiding sense of hope, despair can take over and make you think nothing has any power to change things for the better. But the song seems to come from the perspective of someone who is trying to hold on to a shred of something better that feels like there can be an impetus, a glimmer of human solidarity and caring, of love that can push back against the wave of darkness that can feel like it’s snuffing out everything good and decent. It in effect makes a case for the personal being the political and how often that tide can turn in ways with small efforts that become larger causes and movements that can turn things in a positive direction beginning with the basic component of what makes life and society so vital and that is with bonds with one another. Watch the video for “Can’t Do Without You” on YouTube and follow Pink Turns Blue at the links below. The band’s new album Black Swan released on February 28, 2025 on vinyl LP, digital download and streaming.

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Pink Turns Blue’s “Dancing With Ghosts” is a Song About the Will to Break From Stifling Relationships

Pink Turns Blue (Mic Jogwer), photo by D. Vondran

Pink Turns Blue released its new album Black Swan on February 28, 2025 and the singles put out around the release of the album hint at the album full of self reflection on interpersonal conflict, inner struggles and the yearning for growth and satisfaction rather than a familiar yet stifling situations that can off shape and define our lives. “Dancing With Ghosts” and its brooding yet urgent melodies dives into the latter directly. The music video depicts a young man who is trying to escape from a family dynamic filled with the kind of turmoil and conflict that does no one any good and in the video we see not just him seeking freedom and fulfillment outside the family but also the mother and father characters who fight looking on reflectively especially at the end. In that way it becomes obvious the song is about how we are all participants and victims of this dysfunctional normal in our own ways and sometimes simply removing oneself from the situation can be the best choice for many of us and one to which we may be driven before we understand that’s what’s going on. The jangly shimmer of the guitar melody paired with the melancholic vocals make the song stick with you reinforced by the strong emotional hook of the imagery of the video. Watch that video on YouTube and follow Pink Turns Blue at the links below. Black Swan is now available on vinyl LP, CD, digital download and streaming.

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Pink Turns Blue Announces the Release of Its 2025 Album BLACK SWAN With the Release of the Existential and Melancholic Titular Single

Legendary German post-punk band Pink Turns Blue is set to release its new album BLACK SWAN on February 28, 2025. Its lead single of the same name as the album title is a melancholic, almost brooding, existential examination of modern malaise and how the seeming meaningless or essential aimlessness of going through the motions of our lives can leak into the psyche like a slow acting poison that brings about a dissatisfaction with even the most comfortable lives and making a living and getting by. Especially when that mindset and perception masks how it’s resting on a civilizational delusion regarding rising authoritarianism, inequality, the specter of climate disaster that most powerful world governments seem to be glossing over. The song speaks to a yearning to plug into something more meaningful and relevant because there is more to life than even ethical consumption and identifying with any aspect of where one fits into one’s economic utility to any political or economic structure in all of human existence right now. The song goes deeper than the surface level and immediate concerns because the neglect of that inherent depth of understanding and feeling and sensitivity is what fuels so much of our collective sense that things could and should be better for everyone and everything if our energies weren’t feeding back as despair or funneled into consumptive endeavors and livelihoods that don’t build toward a mutually nurturing civilization. Watch the beautifully melancholic music video for “Black Swan (But I Know There Is More to Life)” on YouTube and follow Pink Turns Blue at the links below.