I wish my eyes were always closed
Broken world has lost its glow
No place to run no place to hide
Just emptiness deep inside
Cold Union’s new single Lost In Black sounds like two people staring down the end of the world with a drum machine, a bass, a guitar, and bruised romance. Julie and Charles Morose started the project after seeing Twin Tribes and Lebanon Hanover in Wrocław, which is exactly the sort of origin story that makes sense: one night, one gig, one shared infection, and suddenly the future has black eyeliner and an Icelandic windburn.
The duo began in Poland and later took shape in Iceland, where the stark glacial landscape seems to have frozen every soft edge out of the music. You can hear that cold space in the record: the vintage electronics sitting there like old hospital equipment, the guitar cutting in with a nervous little gleam, Julie’s bass keeping the body upright while everything else threatens to fall apart. It certainly brings to mind Lebanon Hanover, Qual, and Clan of Xymox, but Cold Union have enough private damage hidden beneath the floorboards to avoid sounding like a masquerade.
The title track is brutally plain about its misery. The song has that awful clean feeling of something made after too many sleepless mornings. The world is broken, the glow is gone, and the singer sounds stranded inside a life that has lost its colour chart. The black cars, black night, and blackened emotional weather are not goth decoration; they are inventory, the stuff left on the table after depression has cleaned out the room. They let the beat march, the bass brood, the synths shiver, and the voice carry the bad news without polishing it into pretty misery.
“We came up with the idea for Lost In Black shortly after releasing our first album, Deep In My Memory,” says the band. “During the writing process, we went through some of the hardest moments of our lives, and those experiences deeply shaped the music. In the end, it became what we believe is our strongest and most honest work to date.” They assert that this is their strongest track so far, with the biggest impact. “At times, I feel exactly as expressed in the song: lost in the colours of my life. The concept made such a strong impression on us that we decided to shape the entire album around this theme,” says Julie.
The video, edited by Charles Morose and Philip Merch, gives the song a hard black-and-white glare: the band framed against TV screens, night trees, and a kind of digital-era German Expressionism. Lost In Black is Cold Union turning private collapse into cold current.
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Listen to the title track from Lost In Black below and order the album here.
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