Faded flowers rain on me
Every ache now oh feels so real
Nothing makes sense anymore
As I drift and watch them fall
There is a strange majesty in the fall that can often lead to a ddark night of the soul: it is a sacred bursting of the self so absolute that it becomes a form of grace. To plummet from the high ledge of illusion to the dust of one’s own undoing is to be stripped of every decoration the world bestows. Down there, amid the wreckage, one feels the rough texture of truth for the first time. The air is raw and clean. In the pit, pride burns off like fog, and what remains – bare, blinking, and bloodied – is the beginning of something pure. The bottom, then, is not an end, but an awakening.
Collapse can be its own form of revelation, and Ductape have learned how to translate that fall into sound. The Turkish duo return with Fine, a song steeped in the strange radiance of ruin, where losing control becomes an act of awakening. Following their 2024 album Echo Drama, they transform descent into devotion, sculpting something raw, intimate, and unmistakably alive.
Fine begins like a quiet reckoning, basslines moving with the steadiness of a pulse on the edge of breaking. Gorgeous synth work underlines a voice that feels both weary and resolute; an invocation to reclaim the self, to wrest power back from the void. The lyrics spiral through disorientation and pain, until they find calm at the bottom. “At the bottom of the hole (I call mine),” the voice admits, finding strange peace in surrender.
Black sheets and faded flowers become symbols of beauty uncovered through collapse. The track feels stripped to its essence, like light through dust in an abandoned chapel. It folds inward, tracing the grace that lives inside decay.
The accompanying video, filmed in stark black and white at Misuc in Ankara, feels like a forgotten silent film resurrected from some haunted archive. The duo appear as alchemists in their own creation myth, brewing a spell in a laboratory filled with relics and preserved life. They collect ingredients, smudge the air, and stir their potion into being. Directed, styled, and produced entirely by Ductape (with camera work by Mert Yalçın and editing by Çağla Güleray) it captures both ritual and renewal, where art becomes the act of survival itself.
Watch the video for “Fine” below:
After a relentless tour cycle, Ductape show no signs of slowing. Their forthcoming album Faded Flowers, set for release in 2026, promises to expand this meditation on surrender and rebirth. Fine is its invocation: a hymn for those who have fallen, found themselves in the wreckage, and learned to call it home.
Listen to Fine below and order the single here.
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