PINK TURNS BLUE, BLACK SWAN

Nearly forty years after answering a small newspaper ad, Mic Jogwer is still carrying the flame for Pink Turns Blue. Formed in Cologne, German in 1985 when Jogwer joined up with Thomas Elbern, the band quickly became pioneers of Germany’s darkwave and post punk underground. Elbern departed before their debut If Two Worlds Kiss, and across the decades that followed, Jogwer has remained the constant, steering Pink Turns Blue through shifting lineups and evolving eras of sound.

Now the group has released their twelfth studio album, Black Swan. The record is full of shimmering synth textures, chiming guitar lines, and pulsing rhythms, hallmarks of the band’s sound refined by years of perspective. Its atmosphere is dark and weighty yet always melodic. Lyrically, the album turns inward, circling themes of isolation, yearning, and fragile human connection. With songs built on the tension between resignation and hope, darkness and light, the album shows that Pink Turns Blue remain enduring pioneers of darkwave nearly four decades on.