{"id":23376,"date":"2026-10-16T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=23376"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:06:50","slug":"berlins-night-nail-drops-new-single-passion-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=23376","title":{"rendered":"BERLIN&#8217;S NIGHT NAIL DROPS NEW SINGLE &#8220;PASSION SQUAD&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NNpassion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23377\" style=\"width:473px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NNpassion.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NNpassion-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NNpassion-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BERLIN, GERMANY \u2013 October 16, 2026 \u2013 Berlin-based darkwave artist Night Nail has just released \u201cPassion Squad,\u201d their second single from their highly-anticipated fourth studio album entitled &#8220;Infinite Fountain&#8221; on Icy Cold Records (France). What happens when your 9-to-5 isn&#8217;t just a grind, but a countdown to your own obsolescence? Night Nail&#8217;s Brandon Robert answers this with his latest single, &#8220;Passion Squad,&#8221; a haunting, romanticized retelling of his real-life, tragic story working in E-commerce alongside the very technology designed to replace him. Inspired by his final days in the corporate world, &#8220;Passion Squad&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a song about job loss\u2014it\u2019s a psychological dive into the digital abyss. Brandon flips the script, telling the story from the perspective of the Artificial Intelligence model itself. The lyrics open with a chillingly empathetic blow: \u201cYour story\u2019s really sad.\u201d \u201cPassion Squad,&#8221; available on all digital and streaming platforms, was mixed and produced by Sven Wolff at Cosmonaut Studio in Berlin, Germany and coproduced by Night Nail. Saxophone was played by Ruby Mai with additional bass guitar by Kill Shelter and backing vocals by VV &amp; the Void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bandamp: www.<a href=\"https:\/\/nightnail.bandcamp.com\/track\/passion-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nightnail.bandcamp.com\/track\/passion-squad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Passion Squad\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6EtSl44zhzxxAG6NvxwJcw?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Passion Squad\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7qy34FIvYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, GERMANY \u2013 October 16, 2026 \u2013 Berlin-based darkwave artist Night Nail has just released \u201cPassion Squad,\u201d their second single from their highly-anticipated fourth studio album entitled &#8220;Infinite Fountain&#8221; on Icy Cold Records (France). What happens when your 9-to-5 isn&#8217;t just a grind, but a countdown to your own obsolescence? Night Nail&#8217;s Brandon Robert answers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=23376\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BERLIN&#8217;S NIGHT NAIL DROPS NEW SINGLE &#8220;PASSION SQUAD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23378,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376\/revisions\/23378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}