‘Night’ closes Burn’s dark electro love story on debut CD ‘Chopped and Shattered’
Burn
Polish-Luxembourgish dark electro duo Burn have released their second single “Night“, a downtempo, trip-hop-leaning track that serves as the closing song on their debut album “Chopped and Shattered”. The single is accompanied by an official video, while the full album appears in 2026 as a limited CD edition.
Thematically the single “Night” is about complex relationships to a close.
The CD edition of “Chopped and Shattered” is limited to 150 copies and contains nine tracks that run from the earlier single “Pockets” through to “Night”. Each song title consists of a single word, and together those titles spell out the album name.
About Burn
Burn is a Polish-Luxembourgish electronic duo formed by producer Bartosz Brzeziński (DXCV3R) and composer, bassist, pianist and vocalist Ewa Baran, who works under the name Holy Høly. The project positions itself between dark electro, industrial-tinged electronica and trip-hop, with a strong focus on precise song structures and heavily edited vocal work.
The duo publicly emerged in 2025 with “Pockets” a track built on a slow trip-hop tempo, heavy beats and an EBM-derived pulse. Before “Night”, Burn also contributed the track “Run!” to the compilation “Music From Poland” released by Go Boys Records.
Holy Høly’s solo activity forms a substantial part of the duo’s background. Under her own name, Ewa Baran released the downtempo and trip-hop-influenced album “262626” through Bezdech Records on 10 January 2025.
Beyond Burn and her solo work, Baran plays bass in bands including Noce / zespół and MSM, handles synths, bass, vocals and piano in projects such as She Fits Me, and appears in the acid-jazz group Regresja. She is also signed to the Barcelona-based label Diffuse Reality Records (via the release “Hard Times”) and Italian platform Cultural Bridge. Her credits include participation in the “Taki Pejzaż” project by the Polin Choir and Dominik Strycharski, as well as backing vocals on film soundtracks by composer Amaury Laurent Bernier.
DXCV3R brings a parallel history in trip-hop and experimental electronica. Brzeziński co-founded the duo ThunderFuzz with Camille Fabre in 2020 and released the album “Anti Body”, from which the track “Horizon” appeared on the vinyl compilation “Down Tempo Fix, Vol. 1” released by US label H1 Massive. He has also recorded under the name The $cience and worked as a producer and remixer for artists including the Canadian-British project Ashes and Dreams, US-based TabInStereo, and Polish acts such as Ania Sama and Polaczek.
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