Turkish Darkwave Duo Ductape Confront the Slow Decay of Modern Life on New Album “Faded Flowers”

Ductape, a Turkish darkwave duo formed in Istanbul in 2019 by Çağla Güleray and Furkan Güleray, have released their fifth full-length album Faded Flowers after relocating their base to France. The record uses botanical metaphor—flowers drained under poor light—to examine modern exhaustion: digital self-construction, social performance, administrative identity labour, and the contradiction of mass connectivity producing isolation. Çağla’s detached yet vulnerable vocals anchor songs built on cold synthesizers, disciplined basslines, and restless guitar that avoid decoration. The album explores submission to invisible systems of power and inherited expectation, circling anger and deeper exhaustion. The first single, Fine, traces collapse toward an uneasy acceptance of circumstance, balancing relief against suspicion in luminous arrangements.

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