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.
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