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New York (USA) based atmospheric coldwave act Blacklist is pleased to unveil their brand new video for “Lovers In Mourning”. The track comes by way of the group’s just-released, via Profound Lore Records, full-length, Afterworld.
Starting out as the flagship band of artist Pieter Schoolwerth’s Wierd Records imprint, Blacklist’s trademark sound is dense and dark, incorporating elements of shoegaze and heavy metal with coldwave. The members often cite influences like My Bloody Valentine and Motörhead alongside bands like Comsat Angels, Killing Joke, and The Sound, while singer Joshua Strachan’s (Vaura) lyrics split the difference between the anthemic manifestos of Manic Street Preachers and The Sisters Of Mercy’s Vision Thing.
Issues Strachan of "Lovers In Mourning": "A lot of strange and maybe seemingly unrelated things came together with this song. But with Blacklist I like to lean into those. Post-punk is, in some sense, a genre exercise, so there's no point in doing it by-the-numbers. As with much of Afterworld, this song is about desire and longing, but also about feeling as if love might be impossible or forever out of your reach. Whether because of distance, isolation, or lots of bad luck, I think we all have hit those walls at one point or another. What started musically as an early Mötley Crüe/mid-‘80s Ozzy-style riff morphed really quickly into this wistful sounding thing when I kicked on the synth pedal. I had just finished the Meridiane record a few months earlier which is a dark ambient collaboration I did with Pieter Nooten (Clan Of Xymox) with guest appearances by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive), and Kennedy Ashlynn (SRSQ, Them Are Us Too). Working with Pieter, I learned so much about arrangement and dynamics, so I decided to jump headfirst into a sort of Hounds Of Love big drums and strings feeling with this. It came together shockingly naturally. The chorus references ‘star-crossed lovers’, a well-known expression from Shakespeare. But I think fewer people know that it's a reference to astrology, to this idea that what you personally want isn't mapped out in the future the stars foretell. So, when I say ‘stars crossed don't mean anything’, it's about feeling doomed, but also rejecting that hopelessness. At the time, I found myself relating to very familiar vampire films like The Hunger in a new way, as characters who have experienced eons of isolation from the wider world, for whom love is complicated or maybe impossible. I became interested in this idea of paying a certain shameless homage to standbys like "Bloodletting" by Concrete Blonde and "Black No. 1" by Type O Negative while hopefully also pulling them into new territory, where once you peel back the meta-gothic tropes, there are layers of authentic inner life that connect to our deepest emotional turmoils." Link
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