New Jersey-based rock band Mercy Union are excited to announce the release of their first single in four years titled “Prussian Blue.” Recorded at Audio Pilot Studios, engineered by Rob Freeman and mixed by Kevin Dye (Gates), “Prussian Blue,” with its almost Cure-like intro and lush, stadium-sized chorus, follows the band’s well-received 2018 debut album, The Quarry, with a new found confidence. Experiencing a number of changes in the past few years, “Prussian Blue” serves as a new beginning and is the band’s headlamp guiding them through the uncertainty of these times.
On first listen, the lyrics “I need you like a Prussian Blue” leave the imagination with the ever common theme of love and loss. But after another pass, a heavier thought comes to the surface. Inspired by historical events, the song “explores what happens when humans build beautiful and amazing things and the inevitability of those things sliding into catastrophe,” frontman Jared Hart explains. “It’s about the juxtaposition of turning on cruise control while you’re spinning out or taking a nap during an earthquake.”
Although it’s nothing new, the last couple of years have only magnified those feelings of unsteadiness and lack of control. It’s difficult to watch as people make decisions on the world’s entangled well being. But sometimes it’s not the control we’re really looking for, only the illusion of it. “Prussian Blue” is a small attempt to make sense of it all.
Stay tuned for more information and music from Mercy Union throughout 2022.
