IMPURE WILHELMINA Share “Blanche réalité,” the Cold Heart of Le sanglot

With “Blanche réalité,” IMPURE WILHELMINA offer the second glimpse into Le sanglot, their forthcoming album due for release via Season of Mist. An official music video accompanies the single, drawing further into a body of work built entirely in French for the first time in the band’s history.

“Blanche réalité” (White Reality) maps a state of persistent, low-grade alienation: a person going through the motions of daily existence, disoriented at the centre of a world from which all warmth has been subtracted. The song finds its biographical root in a winter hike vocalist and guitarist Michael Schindl took, during which he nearly lost himself in the fog. That real, physical experience of erasure sits at the core of the track’s emotional logic, grounding an otherwise interior state in something concrete and felt.

The accompanying video extends the song’s territory rather than illustrating it. Shot entirely on location in fog-bound natural landscapes with no band performance, it follows a solitary figure moving through mist-consumed fields and bare woodland without ever arriving anywhere. The palette is almost entirely desaturated throughout, with animals functioning as the visual counterpart to the lyrics: present, unreachable, moving through the fog with a purposefulness the human figure lack. Only in the final seconds does colour return, a handful of amber leaves around water, an image that offers no clear resolution.

Watch the official video for “Blanche réalité” here: https://youtu.be/Z23gEAepLAE

Le sanglot will be released on May 22nd, 2026 via Season of Mist. It is the band’s first record written and sung entirely in French, and the first to feature guitarist Edouard Nicod. The album was recorded and mixed by Yvan Bing at Kitchen Studio, Geneva, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studio, Stockholm.

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