All You Can Hate they are a Roman band with indie rock sounds contaminated by post-punk, midwest emo and shoegaze, the lyrics of the songs talk about contemporary generational discomfort: social isolation, addiction to social media, desire for change, sense of impotence, love and hate that overlap without clear boundaries.
Afterglow is their latest EP, published by Vina Records, which consists of seven tracks, available on all digital platforms and in vinyl ed format. limited and numbered, available for purchase on Bandcamp and on the Vina Records website.
The video clip is a live session recorded in studios of Radio Rock FM 106.6 during the show “Bring On The Night”. “Rockstars” is a song taken from Afterglow.
The video shows the most authentic dimension of the band, between shoegaze, indie rock and post-punk atmospheres, captured live from the studios of the historic Roman broadcaster.
“Rockstars“is a frontal outburst against those who build a character instead of producing music. In the sights is the eternal promise: almost forty years, twenty of a “career” told like a personal myth, but without a real substance to support it. Ambition becomes a mask, experience a self-assigned title, while one continues to seek someone's approval, always “one step higher”. The song demolishes that attitude made up of poses, imaginary hierarchies and stories inflated to impress. It's a jab at those who look down on others but thrive on self-celebration and compromise. At the center there is a clear clash: those who play the part of the rock star and those who, on the other hand, make music out of real need, without bowing to the toxic dynamics of the environment. It's not a race for fame.
We are already doing what we are. While someone else continues to play a role.
Afterglow it is the light that remains when everything seems over.
Afterglow it is the persistence of light in the darkness: that suspended moment in which something is over but still continues to shine, even if just for an instant. It is the symbol of transition – between light and shadow, adolescence and maturity, illusion and awareness.
If All You Can Hate's previous EP, Nothing Lasts Forever, stated that nothing is destined to last, the Ep Afterglow it tells what remains after the end: the echo, the trace, the heat that survives the destruction. It is not a denial of the end, but its natural evolution. It is the demonstration that a new beginning can be born precisely from what is extinguished.
Concept that we also find in the band's visual identity: evanescent and reverberated shapes, softer and more derivative tones compared to the predominant blue of the first EP. A graphic continuity that becomes aesthetic and conceptual evolution. The covers of this new recording project reinforce this vision, broadening the emotional universe of the project.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
