The sun sets alone, always silently
In places you don’t know, my cries resound
Isolation doesn’t always arrive through separation. Sometimes it forms inside continuity—inside work that never finishes, grief that never clarifies, and survival that repeats without reward. Ductape’s latest single “Gölgesiz” (Turkish for “no shadow”) unfolds from that condition. Rather than dramatizing suffering, it documents persistence: sorrows accumulate, collapse, and return; attempts at renewal scatter rather than resolve. Even descent offers no bottom—only something briefly solid to cling to before the cycle resumes. Without shadow, there is no contrast between rest and strain, no place where pressure eases. Identity narrows to become an act of endurance itself.
Sung in Turkish, Gölgesiz moves with the weary momentum of someone who continues because stopping would mean collapse. The vocals are restrained and weighted, carrying a beautiful fatigue rather than dramatic force. Time is experienced not as progression but as repetition—days without contour, a present stretched thin. Power exists here, but it is volatile and conditional, shaped by attrition rather than control. And the storm singer Çağla Güleray embodies here isn’t chaos but pressure: a low system that builds like thunder that refuses to break.
Musically, the track mirrors that state. Post-punk guitar lines and steady, insistent drumming generate forward motion without release, circling rather than advancing. The arrangement resists climax, reinforcing the sense of movement without destination—discipline holding everything together where hope no longer does.
The black-and-white DIY video gives this isolation a physical form. Shot in Quito, Ecuador, during Ductape’s Latin American tour, it followsGüleray along an expansive shoreline, where she is often—though not exclusively—rendered in silhouette, bathed in darkness, and reduced to outline. The body drifts, smoke-soft and unstable, neither fully anchored nor fully erased. For a song titled Gölgesiz, the blurred line between what is all shadow and what has no shadow feels quietly pointed: presence thinned into residue, a figure carried by wind and water rather than by intention. Subtle distortions loosen the body from gravity, reinforcing the song’s central condition—exposure without shelter, endurance without protection.
Watch the video for “Gölgesiz” below:
“Gölgesiz” arrives as the second single from their forthcoming new album, Faded Flowers, set for release in 2026.
Listen to “Gölgesiz” below and order the single here.
Ductape will be touring throughout Europe throughout 2026, including a performance at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in May, along with dates in Spain, Germany, Malta, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and more.
Tour dates:
Dec 26 — Hangar 48, Madrid, Spain
Dec 27 — Sala Vol, Barcelona, Spain
Jan 05 — Slaughter Club, Paderno Dugnano, Italy
Feb 20 — Eventstudio / Stereowerk, Brunswick, Germany
Feb 21 — Lido, Berlin, Germany
Feb 27 — Mergener Hof, Trier, Germany
Feb 28 — Rockfabrik, Übach-Palenberg, Germany
Apr 16 — Hafenklang, Hamburg, Germany
Apr 17 — Exil, Göttingen, Germany
Apr 17 — Gianpula Main Room, Ħaż-Żebbuġ, Malta
Apr 18 — Kulturzentrum Grend, Essen, Germany
May 21 — Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig, Germany
Jun 25 — 2progi, Poznań, Poland
Jun 27 — Cultuurhuis De Leest, Izegem, Belgium
Jul 10 — Rock la Mureș, Simeria, Romania
Aug 20 — Stella Nomine Festival, Torgau, Germany
Sep 25 — Die Stadtmitte, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sep 26 — Das Rind, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Oct 23 — Kulturzentrum Bollwerk 107, Moers, Germany
Oct 24 — Kulturzentrum franz.K, Reutlingen, Germany
Nov 20 — Rust, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov 21 — The Abyss, Gothenburg, Sweden
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