Кожа расшедшая швами,
Мир угасает во тьме.
Звёзды, зависшие в небе,
Много расскажут тебе
The world always seems to ask for one more thing just as the body begins to give out: another crisis to absorb, another responsibility to shoulder, another future to fret over before the present has loosened its grip. In time, exhaustion alters the scale of everything. A room grows airless; a day becomes an ordeal; even the simple act of carrying on weighs more than you can bear.
Turin-based coldwave and post-punk project Obychno Odyn confronts that struggle on Мир угасает во тьме (“The World Fades into Darkness”). Written by Vadym Protsenko, the single opens the forthcoming album Адинамия, tracing human fragility under the weight of a world closing in.
Knocking snare percussion and strange, watery vibrations set the song on uneasy ground, the latter conjuring a loose sheet of metal or plastic shivering against the beat. Funereal keyboards drift in, hovering between organ and piano, as an eerie analog synth slices through the arrangement. Protsenko hurls the Russian lyrics in forceful cries, held tight in reverb; each phrase surges through the music with sharp, macabre urgency.
These cramped electronics carry something of Bunker Strasse at their bleakest, while the Gothic theatricality of Das Kabinette emerges through a rougher recording surface. Dusty and decayed, the sound feels like a coldwave cassette unearthed from the mid-1980s. It conjures candlelight flickering against damp stone, footsteps echoing through an Eastern European castle, and corridors that vanish into darkness beyond the flame.
The lyrics give exhaustion a body: skin splitting at the seams, yellow leaves drifting into a pool of blood, tired eyes tallying the days. A weight settles on the shoulders, while tomorrow claims time scarcely lived. Even the world’s silence brings no solace. In the closing lines, the body is urged to rise and run even as breath fails—turning the demand to keep moving into something almost unbearably cruel.
Filmed by Tout Debord, the accompanying video places the musicians beneath a sickly green light, interrupting the performance with black-and-white passages, tracking interference, and coarse bursts of green and magenta. The framing moves between Protsenko at the microphone, his guitar, and Marcello Aloisio on bass, bringing hands and faces close before distortion partially swallows them. The distressed picture gives the performance an unstable intimacy, as though the recording itself were struggling to hold itself together.
Watch the video for Мир угасает во тьме below:
Musician Vadym Protsenko founded Obychno Odyn in Bucharest in 2025, responding to global instability and events in his home country through songs concerned with war, existence, and emotional isolation. Writing and performing in Russian and English, he draws on the French coldwave of the 1980s, particularly Trop Tard and Bunker Strasse, seeking neglected sounds that can speak to present circumstances. The eight-song debut album, Излияние (“Outpouring”), followed in 2026.
The same year brought the project’s first live performances in Bucharest, with DJ sets by Corina Sucarov. Although Obychno Odyn remains Protsenko’s solo recording project, Aloisio joined in 2026 to support its live performances on bass, alongside Protsenko’s vocals and guitar. Their deliberately reserved stage presence leaves room for the music’s combination of distance and closeness, a quality preserved in this new video.
Listen to Мир угасает во тьме below, and order the single here.
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