Silver Tears by Pale Blue

We are pleased to announce a new Pale Blue single/video-“Silver Tears”. At the beginning of this year, we released a very personal EP called Breathe. We weren’t prepared for what was to come, only a few weeks after the release. The plan was to release our new record this year, but we decided to put that on hold until we can figure out this mess we are all in. Instead, I sent Liz an instrumental I wrote for a standalone single for a "song about 2020”. We finished the song, and a month later, my father died. So, I asked Liz to add more vocals and lyrics. Those final lyrics tied the song together. This is a long song, almost 11 minutes, but its been a long year. Silver Tears is the culmination of 2020, just like Breathe was the beginning. They are bookends. I am so over all of this negativity and death and sadness and anger. Silver Tears closes the chapter. Its time to move forward. I miss being in a club djing, I miss seeing my friends and my family, I miss you.

Also I am very excited for the remix from my friend Monty Luke. We released a record together under the name Billions and Billions back in 2012. He is one of my favorite producers and people, and he also runs Black Catalogue. Thanks - Mike

From Liz:
“This song was written during the first quarter of the quarantine. Every day I thought about death- death caused by the virus, death caused by white supremacy, racism, violence, death by transphobia, homophobia, inequality, and all of it put me in a dark place where I was desperate for some sort of hope. Mike’s dad had just passed away during all of this and it’s devastating to think about all the people losing loved ones who aren’t able to be there during those final moments due to covid-19. When I was writing this, I was trying to make sense of it all, but I still can’t. I used to take solace in the love I had for my city but all of a sudden, I didn’t feel safe because of people’s disregard for spreading this virus.So, to cope I reflected a lot on the people I love and tried to strengthen those connections....it's all I could manage to do to deal with so much hate but honestly at the end of the day that isn’t enough” -Liz

Mike Simonetti split from Italians Do It Better (Chromatics, Glass Candy) to focus on his new project, Pale Blue, as well as his new label 2MR (Two Mikes Records). The Past… encompasses a myriad of sonic elements, ranging from rhythmic, melodic techno to atmospheric ambient productions, while also incorporating Simonetti’s varied background in noise, drone, and even experimental dream pop.

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