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UNIFY SEPARATE

Unify Separate are the Scottish-Swedish duo of Andrew Montgomery and Leo Josefsson, whose dark and beautifully mesmerizing synthpop is steadily gaining recognition on the electronic scene. With a unique voice that’s equal parts choirboy and soulman, Montgomery made waves in the Britpop era with Geneva on Nude Records between 1996 and 2000, touring with Suede along the way. Josefsson is a luminary of the Stockholm synth scene with the bands Lowe and Statemachine, whose work has been recognised with several Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards (Best Newcomer, Best Live Act, Best Song and Best Album). As a producer Leo won a Swedish Grammy in 2023.

Unify Separate’s live show is and  intense and rich experience, and their futuristic visuals and thrilling sound is equally at home on arena stages as in small, intimate clubs.

New releases

Dark Heaven
Listen to the new single "Dark Heaven". Taken from the upcoming EP "Heavy Meta".
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Gaslighted
Listen to the new single ‘Gaslighted’ - an anthem for the manipulated
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Music Since Tomorrow
Listen to the new album here.
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DETOX
Listen to "Detox".
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Heavy Meta
'Heavy Meta', the new EP is getting rave reviews. "10/10 This is a small masterpiece!"/Reflections of Darkness.
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HEAVY META

Through your dark heaven
Dark heaven

I know a place
I know a place
Where I can go to
And leave this world behind

Where I can strip
(Where I can strip)
Where I can strip away my ego
And feed on my desires

Lead, lead me on to your dark heaven
Take, take me with you
With you forever
High on desire
And all that you’ve given
Please take me with you
Through your dark heaven

Dark heaven

We have a place
A secret place
Where we can shelter
And play with all our fears

Lead, lead me on to your dark heaven
Take, take me with you
With you forever

High on desire
And all that you’ve given
Please take me with you
Through your dark heaven

Dark heaven
Now lead the way
Through your dark heaven

Take me away
Take me with you
Now lead the way
Take me with you
Through your dark heaven

Dark heaven
Through your dark heaven

Don’t believe everything you think
And don’t believe you can heal the sick
Don’t believe that you can’t be loved
When you love yourself you’ll be good enough

Let them do what the fuck they want
As long as they can’t hurt you

You draw the poison out bit by bit
It hurts like hell
But you need to quit
You draw the poison out bit by bit
It hurts like hell
But you need to quit

Don’t believe that you can’t be loved
Just believe that you’re good enough
Don’t believe
Don’t believe
Don’t believe…

You draw the poison out
Bit by bit
It hurts like hell
But you need to quit
You draw the poison out
Bit by bit
It hurts like hell
But you need to quit

It’s ok not to think anything at all
It’s ok not to feel anything at all
t’s ok not to do anything at all
It’s ok not to have anything at all
It’s ok not to think anything at all
(Say something, be something)
It’s ok not to feel anything at all
(Feel something, love something)
It’s ok not to do anything at all
(Say something, be something)
It’s ok not to have anything at all
(Feel something, love something)

Say something, be something
Feel something, love something
Say something, be something
Feel something, love someone

I need to know
I’m not fucked up
That I’ve not fucked up
Again
I’ve been gaslighted
For so long now
That I don’t know
What’s happening 

Cos it’s never your fault 
Never your fault 
Never your fault 
And if it’s never your fault 
We’re all in the wrong
You find a reason 
To make a lesion
And go

You’ve got this way 
Of explaining 
Of behaving 
That shuns the blame
You’ve got this way
Of saying
But never doing
What you say 

Cos it’s never your fault 
Never your fault
Never your fault 
And if it’s never your fault 
We’re all in the wrong 
You find a reason 
To make a lesion
And go

Gaslighted again
I’ve been gaslighted again
Gaslighted again
I’ve been gaslighted again 
Gaslighted
I’ve been gaslighted again

Gaslighted
I’ve been gaslighted again
Gaslighted
You’re gaslighting me
Gaslighted again 

You want to know
What’s your problem?
Your problem 
Is you 

Excuses
Excuses
That’s all you ever have
Excuses

Excuses
Time and time again
Excuses

When you try make everyone happy
Someone will be sad
When you try make everyone happy
Someone will get hurt
(X 2)

Excuses
That’s all you ever have
Excuses

Excuses
Time and time again
Excuses

The world is cold
But you know that it doesn’t have to be
The world is cold
But there’s refuge in a dream
(X 2)

Refuge in a dream
Dream

Excuses
That’s all you ever have
Excuses

Excuses
Time and time again
Excuses

Excuses
Excuses
Excuses
Excuses

Excuses
Excuses

Refuge in a dream

No parachute
No life support
No future tense
My last resort

No self-defence
When you distort
The truth we had
You sold us short

Return to exile
To exile
I turn to exile
To exile

I wish that we
Could reconcile
If only we
Could press rewind

No self-defence
When you distort
The truth we had
You sold us short

Return to exile
I turn to exile
To exile

I turn to exile
To Exile
Away from you
Away from you

No parachute
No life support
No future tense
My last resort

(You’re breaking up, your signal’s lost)
It’s what I do
(You’re on your own, fingers crossed)
Away from you
(You’re breaking up, your signal’s lost)
Away from you

Return to exile
To exile
I turn to exile
To exile

Away from you
Return to exile
It’s what I do
I turn to exile

Away from you
Away from you
I turn to exile
To exile


MUSIC SINCE TOMORROW

You guard yourself against the pain
You take no risks and feel no shame
You keep yourself away from blame
You can’t go through it all again

And then it Breaks through And then it Breaks through
Breaks through
Breaks through…

You couldn’t find the words to say
And so you tried to turn away
But still the memories remain
It’s time that you embraced your fate

And then it Breaks through
And then it Breaks through
Breaks through…

A thousand likes
How many lies?
These are the times
When you will conquer, or divide

A billion ways
To die inside
As you confide
The secret’s out
You have no life

It leaves me cold
It leaves me blind
The little things
You leave behind
It makes me sick
It makes me tired
The game you play
To be admired

I know your kind
A troubled mind
You’re out of time
The secret’s out
You have no life

It leaves me cold
It leaves me blind
The little things
You leave behind
It makes me sick
It makes me tired
The game you play
To be admired

But I can’t leave you
Even though I try
I just can’t leave you
Dying on the vine

You and me v tomorrow
Living off joy and sorrow
And the dreaming in our eyes
We keep our dreams alive

Naiveté blind and holding
Our heads up high ignoring
The pity in their eyes
The pity in their eyes

There’s nobody out there
No-one but you and I
Lost in a world where
Nobody understands

Hiding away the bruises
Making up new excuses
They’ll never understand
Never understand

There’s nobody out there
No-one but you and I
Lost in the moment
Solitude holds my hand

Nobody out there
No-one but you and I
Lost in a world where
Nobody understands

It’s you and me against the world
We have to break it down
So we can build it up again
You and me against the world
We’re running out of time
Oh Solitude, my only friend

Nobody out there
No-one but you and I
Lost in the moment
Solitude holds my hand
(my only friend)

It’s you and me against the world
We have to break it down
So we can build it up again
You and me against the world
We’re running out of time
Oh Solitude, my only friend

(My only friend x 3)

Embrace the Fear

Embrace the fear

Embrace the fear (x3)
We can’t get out of here

I keep trying to tell you
But I can’t explain
It feels like the road ahead is far too straight
And you know it’s okay
To feel afraid
It’s what you do with your fear that counts
So let it stay

Breathe in me the fire to make a change
Embrace the fear, oh make it fade away
Fade away
Fade away

The sum of my dreams
Is all I am
A raging, a powerless staging of my last stand
And you know it’s okay
To ignore the debate
That’s when you go with your inner voice, immune to shame

Breathe in me the fire to make a change
Embrace the fear, oh make it fade away
Fade away
Fade away
Fade away

Embrace the fear (x3)
You can’t get out of here

Embrace the fear (x3)
You can’t get out of here

I keep trying to tell you
But I can’t explain
It feels like the road ahead is far too straight
And you know it’s okay
To feel afraid
It’s what you do with your fear that counts
So let it stay

Fade away(x3)

Embrace the fear (x3)
You can’t get out of here

Embrace the fear (x3)
You can’t get out of here

Embrace the fear (x3)
You can’t get out of here

Embrace the fear

None of this belongs to us
All we have is just on loan
We won’t matter in a hundred years
We’re visitors in our own home

Visitors
Only visitors
Destroying things that we don’t own

Dismantling the life support
Denying what is going on
Maybe it’s too late for us
But not for those who carry on

Visitors
Only visitors
Destroying things that we don’t own
Visitors
Only visitors
It’s almost time for us to go

When I see you in the darkness
You’re so fragile, all alone
Now I’ve woken to your beauty
Hanging in the void

Visitors
Only visitors
Destroying things that we don’t own
Visitors
Only visitors
And now it’s time for us to go

When I see you in the darkness
You’re so fragile, all alone
Now I’ve woken to your beauty
Hanging in the void

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Hello, where are you, are you there?
Hello, where are you?

I never questioned your emotions
You’re in the grip of blind devotion
Can’t get through
I can’t get through

I never advertised my feelings
You wouldn’t care if I revealed them
Tell the truth
You know it’s true

But when you feel the pain
I feel the pain with you

You say you’re fine but you’re unsteady
And when you break some day I’m ready
Here for you
I’m here for you
You’re saying things you don’t believe in
Can barely walk in those high heels
I see through you
I see you through

And when you feel the pain
I feel the pain with you
And when you lose your way
I will be there for you

I tried to take your hand
But you were making other plans
And you left me where I stood
I don’t know if you’re coming back
I’m gonna wait anyhow
In case you do
I wait for you

When you feel the pain
I feel the pain with you
And when you lose your way
I will be there for you

And when you feel the pain
I feel the pain with you
When you lose your way
I will be there for you

Hello, where are you, are you there?
Where are you?

You and me
Can’t you see
We’re falling apart and becoming debris
All we are
Bound to cease
We’re radio waves lost
In eternity

Because it’s over now
Because there’s no way out
This is the final hour
Aboard a dying star

Look around
Can’t you see
We’re drifting away on a vast empty sea
All we are
Dies away
A broadcast, a signal
An echo to fade

Because it’s over now
Because there’s no way out
This is the final hour
Aboard a dying star

All the stories that we told
Count for nothing when we’re gone
No one hears them at all
All the promises we made
Came too little and too late
Lost in eternity

Because it’s over now
Because there’s no way out
This is the final hour
Aboard a dying star

Because it’s over now
(You and me, can’t you see
We’re radio waves lost in eternity)
Because there’s no way out
(You and me, can’t you see)
This is the final hour
(You and me, can’t you see)
Aboard a dying star
(We’re radio waves lost in eternity)

Because it’s over now …

This time
I will never let you down again
If we just go our separate ways
No more guilt or pain
No debts to pay

This truth
That we constructed for ourselves
A world to fill our desperate needs
A place where we can hide away

In the after
Will we be together?
Where everything is symmetry
And everlasting harmony
In the after
In the after

You say
That you see things a different way
But still I don’t know what you want
I don’t know what we’re fighting for

In the after
Will we be together?
Where everything is symmetry
And everlasting harmony
In the after
In the after

In the after
Will we need each other?
In the after
In the after
And now we’ve reached the point of no return

In the after
Will we be together?
Where everything is symmetry
And everlasting harmony
In the after
In the after

How can you be happy
When you hurt yourself?
All this life you’re wasting
When you know fine well

And the hurt
Like a wave
Washing over
Till it’s over

Should this
Be the way
That you love
That you love?
When you’ll
Never be
Good enough

Choices that you’re making
Lovers that you take
None of this is helping
Only bringing pain

And the hurt
Like a wave
Washing over
Here it comes
Like a wave
Washing over
Till it’s over

Should this
Be the way
That you love
That you love?
When you’ll
Never be
Good enough

Doesn’t have to be like this…

(Should this
Be the way
That you love
That you love?
When you’ll
Never be
Good enough)

I watch you standing on the edge
As I dissolve in tears of rage
You’ll take me down with you again
But still I play the waiting game

I know you better than
You know yourself and I’m
The only one who’ll take you in

I’ve come to recognise your lies
Before they’ve even taken flight
And though you’ll leave me in the rain
I know you’ll be back here again

I know you better than
You know yourself and I’m
The only one who’ll take you in
I’ve given all I have
And that’s what breaks my heart
You still can’t see the state you’re in

oooh…

I see you step out off the edge
I know that I can’t turn away
I walk towards the emptiness
And still we play the waiting game

I know you better than
You know yourself and I’m
The only one who’ll take you in
I’ve given all I have
And that’s what breaks my heart
You still can’t see the state you’re in

Oooh…

I watch you step out off the edge

I feel untethered
I’m trying to stay afloat
And I don’t trust this weather
I’m so far from shore

As the waves
Break over my head tonight
I’ll keep a memory of you
As the waves
Drown all my sins, I’ll try
To baptise them in you

You are all I wish for
Admiring from afar
Grace and liberation
And all that I desire

As the waves
Break over my head tonight
I’ll keep a memory of you
As the waves
Drown all my sins, I’ll try
To baptise them in you

You are all I wish for
The secret in my heart
Lost in admiration
I worship from afar

As the waves
Break over my head tonight
I’ll keep a memory of you
As the waves
Drown all my sins, I’ll try
To baptise them in you

You
All I wish for
The secret in my heart
The secret in my heart
You
All I dream of
The secret in my heart

All songs written by Andrew Montgomery and Leo Josefsson.

Electric Guitars by Richard Oakes (The Void, Waiting Game)

Electric Guitars by Christian Persson (Embrace the Fear, The After)
Drums by Nassim Al Fakir (In Over My Head)

Recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by Leo Josefsson at Kiss the needle


FIRST CONTACT

Stains, all around
I try to count and give them numbers
Stains, without sound
Soaked in long deserted wonders
Remains, of fired rounds
They keep a secret in their slumber
Remains, lost and found
We told the truth and then we stumbled

Let the splinters take the stand and wait for a rewind
Let them tell you all about the crime

I will be mute and let the numbness shout to you now
I will be mute, cos only silence speaks the truth
I will be mute, and fill the air without vibrations
And I will be mute, only silence speaks the truth

Break, what is whole
Then smash the parts into tomorrow
Break, a broken hole
And fill the nothingness with sorrow

Let the void sound, hear it scream confessions in your head
Let the perfect emptiness embrace you in its lead
Conversate oblivion to see how it’s combined
It will tell you all about the crime

I will be mute and let the numbness shout to you now
I will be mute, cos only silence speaks the truth I will be mute,
and fill the air without vibrations I will be mute,
only silence speaks the truth

(There’s no ending, no ending, no ending)

Though it all seems like light years ago
There’s no ending, there’s no ending
Travelled so far but still not enough
There’s no ending, no ending

I’m gonna go to the end of the world
I’m gonna go to the end of the world 
I’m gonna go to the end of the world 

Come on, come on, to the end of the world x 3

There’s no ending, no ending…

Surly bonds that only hold me down
Can’t escape your orbit, pulling me back
Termination shock won’t stop you now
Energy to feed off, pulling me back (back)…

Though it all seems like light years ago
There’s no ending, there’s no ending
Travelled so far but still not enough
There’s no ending, no ending

Come on, come on, to the end of the world x 6

No ending, no ending, no ending

Come on, come on, to the end of the world x 6

Remember when I should’ve stayed with you?
All those years ago, all that time ago
But then, I couldn’t wait to
Sing a different song
Prove my own heart wrong, oh…

Still don’t trust myself to love you
So much time has passed, don’t know how to act
The stars that arc across the sky to you
Are all you’re gonna need
Not someone like me

We all do what we do what we have to do
Even if we’re wrong, even if we’re wrong
We all what we do what we have to do

Remember when I should’ve stayed with you?
All those years ago, all that time ago
The stars that arc across the sky to you
Are all you’re gonna need
Not someone like me…

We all what we do what we have to do
Even if we’re wrong, even if we’re wrong
We all what we do what we have to do
Even if we’re wrong, even if we’re wrong…

With no explanation
You killed the conversation
How can you turn your back on us now like this?

You showed yourself to me and gave me all your glory
Didn’t that even mean something to you, maybe?

I see the world, I see the world 
In technicolor, technicolor

Now see the world, come see the world
In technicolor, technicolor

With no hesitation
You broke with the sensation
Why can’t we just live moment to moment, tell me

I see the world, I see the world 
In technicolor, technicolor

Now see the world, come see the world
In technicolor, technicolor

Now, now and then I’ve found
There’s a truth that hides in doubt
Why can’t we work it out?
I’m so sick of being 

Let down… (Technicolor)

Come see the world, come see the world
(But I think I’m losing you…technicolor)

Now I don’t wanna to lose you
I don’t wanna lose you
But I think I’m losing you

I see the world, I see the world 
In technicolor, technicolor

Now see the world, come see the world
In technicolor, technicolor

Come see the world, come see the world
(But I think I’m losing you)

Now see the world, come see the world
In technicolor, technicolor

I don’t wanna lose you
I don’t wanna lose you
But I think I’m losing you

I want you back
Cos I can’t take anymore
Since we broke up
I’ve been sleeping on the floor

And I don’t mind saying
That I can’t go on
What is the point?
And I don’t mind saying
That I’ve nothing left
I just give up

You… Never get over… You

I want you now
To just tell me what went wrong
Still don’t know why
After five years we are gone

And I’ve broken down
And I can’t get out
I just can’t get out
And I’ve broken down
Till I’ve nothing left
I’m finished now, now, now

You… Never get over… You
I want you back
You… Never get over… You
I want you back

You… I want you back… You
I want you back … You … Never get over… You

I want you back
Cos I can’t take anymore
Since we broke up
I’ve been sleeping on the floor

I have been worn down
I have been strung out
I have been controlled
Now it can be told

Suspend the denial x 4

How do you carry your sins?
How do you carry your sins?
Does the weight of self-hate not do you in?
How do you carry your sins?

I have been worn down
I have been strung out
I have been controlled
Now it can be told

Suspend the denial x 3
Suspend…

How do you carry your sins?
How do you carry your sins?
Does the weight of self-hate not do you in?
How do you carry your sins?
Ooooh…

Suspend the denial
Suspend the denial
Suspend the denial
Suspend…

I have been worn down
I have been strung out

You could be my refuge
From my ingratitude
You could be my saviour
My saviour

At least you did something
(Something when you look back)
Tried something
(Gave us all the love you had)
Were something
(My saviour)

Now I flow my tears
Wash away my fears
Till I can see clearly
Till I have you with me again

Now I flow my tears
Wash away my fears
Till I can see clearly
Till I have you with me again

At least you did something
(Something when you look back)
Tried something
(Gave us all the love you had)
Were something
(My saviour)

Now I flow my tears
Wash away my fears
Till I can see clearly
Till I have you with me again

Now I flow my tears
Wash away my fears
Till I can see clearly
Till I have you with me again

You know where I’ll be
If you feel you need me
We are broken friends
Hope we’ll meet again

In a feedback loop
Everything I do
Don’t believe in fate
But I make the same mistakes

As a child, I used to wander
With the secrets of the world
But now I only wonder
Can this all be real?

Every time I try
To restart you and I
Something stops me dead
I will not be led

As a child, I used to wander
With the secrets of the world
But now I only wonder
Can this all be real?

In a loop, you’re my broken friend
In a loop , we are broken friends

In a loop, you’re my broken friend
In a loop, we are broken friends…

Can it still be real?
With the secrets of the world

Can it still be real? x 3
Can you still be real?

On the road of suffering
Each one takes their turn
The shaking and the burning
Each one has to learn

Wait, just wait for it… wait…

On the road less travelled
Searching for a cause
The twisting and the turning
Sometimes we get lost

All I want to do is stop your hurt
All I want from you is try to make it work

Looking for the memories
Smashed inside our hearts
How could we forget about
All the things we are

All I want to do is stop your hurt
All I want from you is try to make it work
(Again)…

If it doesn’t feel right
If it doesn’t seem right
Then you have to fight
Till the dying of the light

If it doesn’t feel right
(All I want to do is stop your hurt)
If it doesn’t seem right
All I want from you
Till the dying of the light
(Again)…

My heart’s desire
Gave up long ago
My soul’s bonfire
Gave me all I know

My heart’s desire
Gave up long ago
My soul’s bonfire
Gave me all I know

Can you sense the need in me?
Do you fear the greed in me?
Can you sense the need in me?
Do you fear the greed in me?

Radiating desperation
Drowning in anticipation
Radiating desperation
Drowning in anticipation

I’m lost at the party
And not a friendly face in sight
It feels so far from home here
In this strange, strange light

My heart’s desire…oooh…
My Heart’s desire…oooh…

I’m lost at the party
And not a friendly face in sight
It feels so far from home here
In this strange, strange light

Can you sense the need in me?
Do you fear the greed in me?
Can you sense the need in me?
Do you fear the greed in me?

Radiating desperation
Drowning in anticipation
Radiating desperation
Drowning in anticipation

I’m lost at the party
And not a friendly face in sight
It feels so far from home here
In this strange, strange light

I never told you
Just how I feel
But I’ve cried over and over again
Can this be real?

I want that feeling
I used to know
It used to be so very simple
So long ago

This hazy language
This masquerade
Going through the motions
Repeat to fade

You have to hurt me so I can heal
You have to hurt me so this is real
You have to hurt me… so I can heal

I don’t want to live with nothing
I just need your love
I’m desperate to know you’ve got me
Secure in your arms

You have to hurt me so I can heal
You have to hurt me so this is real
You have to hurt me… so I can heal

(so I can heal… so this is real… so I can heal) …

All songs written by Leo Josefsson & Andrew Montgomery
Except: ‘Flow My Tears’ written by L. Josefsson, Andrew Montgomery & M. Jönsson
‘Mute’ Johan Renck & Martin Landqvist
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Recorded, mixed and produced by Leo Josefsson at Kiss the needle.

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