The world hums with the cold machinery of individualism, each person a solitary figure lost in the glow of a screen, trading communion for convenience, kinship for clicks. Technology, once a bridge, has become a barricade, isolating rather than uniting, feeding the illusion that one can stand alone against the tide. But no man builds a house from a single stone, no fire warms without gathered wood. The weight of the world is not meant for one back…it must be borne together. The time has come to uncoil from our digital cocoons and manufactures prejudices and stitch the torn fabric anew, before it completely unravels into tatters.
Pink Turns Blue strips sentiment to its sinew with Can’t Do Without You, a stark reckoning with the fault lines fracturing society. The track, a preview of the Berlin trio’s forthcoming Black Swan, carries the weight of urgency. Mic Jogwer, Luca Sammuri, and Paul Richter, fresh from a triumphant tour, refuse complacency. They press forward: undaunted, unrelenting.
“The world is becoming more and more divided,” says Jogwer. “More and more energy is spent on advocating different world views and political emphasis. It’s about asserting one’s own point of view, and the other person is simply wrong. He is too stupid, too gullible. Or is either manipulated by the media, the elite, the ideology. Or a racist, nationalist, sexist who is easy prey for conspiracy theories and populism. But that doesn’t lead to anything, except anger, disappointment, blockage. We can only really win as a team. By not calling each other’s point of view wrong, but by designing a common target landscape and working out the most viable solution possible for everyone. For well-being we need peace and security. We must get along.
Can’t do without you.”
The video for Can’t Do Without You unfurls in raw, unrelenting fragments—crowds surging, voices raised in defiance, streets littered with the wreckage of protest, faces twisted in anguish beneath the weight of batons and tear gas. It captures turmoil, a mirror reflecting the bruises of a world in crisis. The earth scorches, seas choke, and war leaves its mark on the innocent, yet still, the fight persists. It is a battle for breath, for beauty, for the right to exist beyond the grasping claws of greed. A hard watch, yes, but one that must be seen, felt, and reckoned with as a collective.
Watch the video for “Can’t Do Without You” below:
Since their formation in 1985, Pink Turns Blue has continually refined their sound into something lean, luminous, and utterly fearless. Early releases like the seminal If Two Worlds Kiss positioned them within a lineage of post-punk innovators, including Joy Division and Chameleons, but their creative vision remains defiantly forward-looking. They continue to chart new territory, penning powerful music that resonates as profoundly today as it did in those tense final decades of the 20th century.
Black Swan is out now on all digital platforms, as well as vinyl and CD, via Orden Records.
The new album and tour, both titled Black Swan, draw from the term for an unforeseen event, one that hindsight often recasts as inevitable, as though we could have been ready for it.
In 2025, Pink Turns Blue will take to the road, starting with April shows across Germany before venturing into North America, culminating in their appearance at the Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival in Whitby, UK.
TOUR DATES:
- Apr 04 Hamburg, Germany @ Fabrik
- Apr 05 Münster, Germany @ Gleis 22
- Apr 11 Leipzig, Germany @ Moritzbastei
- Apr 12 Cologne, Germany @ GEBÄUDE 9
- Apr 25 Stuttgart, Germany @ clubCANN
- Apr 26 Hannover, Germany @ Musikzentrum Hannover
- May 09 Rüsselsheim, Germany @ Das Rind
- May 10 Bochum, Germany @ Bahnhof Langendreer
- May 16 Bremen, Germany @ Tower Musikclub
- May 17 Berlin, Germany @ Lido
- May 23 Nuremberg, Germany @ Club Stereo
- May 24 Munich, Germany @ Hansa 39, Feirwerk
- Jun 28 Izegem, Belgium @ Cultuurhuis De Leest
- Aug 28 – Philadelphia PA @ Milkboy
- Aug 29 – Brooklyn NY @ AMOC – Brooklyn Made
- Aug 30 – Boston MA @ Sonia
- Aug 31 – Montreal QC @ Casa Del Popolo
- Sept 4 – Toronto ON @ Baby G
- Sept 5 – Detroit MI @ Smalls
- Sept 6 – Chicago IL @ Bottom Lounge
- Sept 7 – Columbus OH @ Rumba
- Sept 10 – Nashville TN @ East Room
- Sept 11 – Atlanta GA @ The Masquerade
- Sept 12 – Charlotte NC @ Snug Harbor
- Sept 13 – Orlando FL @ Conduit
- Sept 14 – Miami FL @ Gramps
- Oct 31 Whitby, UK – Whitby Pavilion Theatre
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