Polar Noir – Is It Over Now?

What remains in a world in which we are destroying our own habitat?
Polar Noir is the project of songwriter Sandra Gern, who wanted to raise awareness of the precarious state of the ocean with her debut single “If Everybody Listened”. Since then, nature, especially water, has been Polar Noir’s greatest inspiration and its protection her greatest motivation. The subsequent singles “Circles”, “Underwater” and “While We Were Sleeping” also tell of the longing and failings of a society disconnected from itself and the environment in glassy dream pop.

Polar Noir hit a nerve with this. Her songs garnered international airplay on radio stations such as KEXP, FM4, radioeins, 1Live, FluxFM, egoFM, rbb Fritz, ARD, Radio 100,7 Luxemburg, BR Puls and Radio X. This was immediately followed by support slots for bands such as the Grammy-nominated M83 or Cari Cari and her first live shows.

Is It Over Now? Making peace with a destructive world
With “Is It Over Now?”, Polar Noir is now releasing a painfully effervescent synthpop song with a heartbreaking chorus that heralds the next phase of their career. “What is the point of a society producing intelligent solutions, but failing putting them into practice? Perhaps the most radical thing we can do is accept our humanity and understand that we ourselves are nature, too,” says Sandra Gern about the song, whose chorus line ‘It’s all about connection’ makes this necessity clear in a light-footed way. “If we fully respected ourselves for who we are, perhaps we could also show this respect to our environment.” It would be worth trying.
The video shows Polar Noir together with a group of dancers in a dilapidated house. Between broken windows, cracked walls and overgrown doorsteps, the message of the song becomes even clearer: it is the dance in the ruins, where we only have each other.