From Denmark the alliance between Lust for Youth and Croatian Amor is renewed, two names that certainly do not represent a revelation in thehumus electronic ten years. Lust for Youth, today a duo formed by Hannes Norrvide and Malthe Fischer, crossed the lands of the minimal-Synth DIY More melancholy and claustrophobic (see “Growing Seeds” of 2012), until they land in alienated drifts in a synth-pop key, as in the alienating “International” (2014), which consecrated them on the global scene. Croatian Amor is instead the changing face of Loke Rahbek, born in '89, always engaged in environmental Arabesques suspended between ethereal minimalism (“The World”, 2013) and avant -garde hallucinations (“Isa”, 2019). Born between post-industrial fragments and epicthe project slowly absorbed the philosophy of beat In a fragmented pulse and, at times, drunk.
“All Worlds” marks a turning point future-garage veined pop sentimentalism, which in reality is not surprising much, given the progressive approach to a Garage-Gothic brumosis that captures the blurred beat of the 2-STEP And mix the vapors with the distant echo of the New Order, modeling the darkwave on gitarella patterns in the car, stripping it of her suffering and leaving only the idea. The connection between Lust for Youth and Croatian Amor dates back to 2013 with agony post-Synth of “pomegranate”, and perhaps it is time to retire the screeching voks of “all worlds” to rediscover sensuality lo-fi of that debut.
Let me be clear: the disc is certainly not evil, but it is more one elevator-music Equipped with rhythm, between drowned guitars, reverberations and synthesizers smooth by the advertising aftertaste, which rarely impress (“Nowhere”). Its most evident, perhaps, is precisely the excess of finishing: a touch of roughness would not have spoiled. Who knows if the two act One day they will return to walking barefoot. While waiting, better not to indulge in feelings of nostalgia.
29/04/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
