It's ok If you still need Help Sometimes. That's Just Part of Growing Up.
Sonic the Hedgehog
(from “Sonic Frontiers”, 2022)
Any reference to the legendary blue porcupine, a great protagonist of the well -known Japanese videogame saga, in the title and relating to the shade of theartwork Of “Sonic”, valid and expected return of the Glazyhaze, is purely random. Unless you want to make comparisons with the growth speed of the latter. The very first steps in 2021, in full pandemic, the young Venetian formation had jumped to the honors of the chronicles two years later with the debut “Just Fade Away”, an invitation to learn to accept and express their emotions in a society that teaches to repress them. With it he had proven, net of some typical lightness of those who approach Shoegaze, Dream-pop and similar sounds for the first time, of an early artistic maturity, ending up under the magnifying glass of Italian criticism and (above all) international, and then undertake various promotional tour tours, which led him to perform in different cities in Europe and in the United Kingdom, allowing him to make himself known for his suggestive lives.
Written and recorded between Treviso, Vicenza and London, the sophomore of the project led by Irene Moretuzzo follows a thinly more ambition loud Compared to the debut, to tell the facets of complex loves and emotional contrasts, mixing elements if necessary dark And storage of post-punk matrix, shoegaze and alt-rock, with a pinch of psychedelia and dreamy melodies, with the gaze turned to the work of Lush, Cranes, Makthaverskan, Alvvays and many others. Production e Mastering They see the names and great care of Paolo Canaglia (New Candys, New Testament) and Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher, Soft Moon) respectively.
After all this time, it has been so long
After all this time, My Heart Beated So Strong
The entrance is In medias resthrown at the mercy of the impetus of the short highlight “What a feeling”, continuing with the distant choirs and the battery power and guitar shots in the foreground in refrain of “Breath”, and the most melancholy and painful “Forgive Me”. THE'intro of “Nirvana” touches the pop of “Wish” and “Kiss Me, Kiss Me” treatments with the addition of a touch psychillustrating a love now at the terminus, while the subsequent noisy growing of “Dwell” is located in the alternative rock area with a nineties flavor.
The melodies of the first part of the work give way to the most intense and introspective notes with “Sonic”, trace from the new wave references and enriched with Gothic veins, and with the dreamlike atmospheres of “Stardust”, up to the lively rhythms of darkwave and post-punk memory ground in “slap”, which come to clash with a turbinous tail gaze. The final jokes are up to the Bassline Fast of the fast “Not Tonight” and to the latest glitters of the most ethereal, minimal and fragile “Warmth”, which is progressively consumed, between a whispered name and an enveloping farewell look, such as the match present on the cover of the disc.
In perfect balance between finely woven sound chiaroscuro and lyrics of valid workmanship, “Sonic” represents a natural evolution of the first chapter of the Glazyhaze, a flower ready to blossom through which our people continue effectively their ascent, with the hope that all this can lead them even further.
07/06/2025
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
