Svnth – Pink Noise Youth

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7.5

• Band:
  Svnth
• Duration: 00:37:14
• Available from: 04/18/2025
• Label:

• These Hands Melt

It passed by water under the bridges since the Roman boys called themselves Seventh Genocide, playing an rickest Black Metal of clear agalloch/first alcest. A decade during which the band of the singer/bass player Rodolfo Ciuffo has revised both its moniker (moving on to a sober and enigmatic Svnth), and (in part) its reference points, now only at times attributable to the universe of extreme music and useful to outline a concept with a sweet metropolitan hues.
In light of the content of this “Pink Noise Youth”, the definition of Blackgaze obviously continues to be the most suitable to frame the sound of the quintet, but compared to the previous “Spring in Blue” – disc which, we remember, was even recorded by Colin Marston in his The Thousand Caves of New York (Black Anvil, Gorguts, Kralllice) – the 'non -metal' component is made here Even more predominant, in a succession of pastel -colored images that, like the pages of a summer diary, first of all transmit a sense of melancholy, of memories linked to nights that never seem to end, of broken and real dreams.
An evolution that, gather, will carry some criticism, but which from our point of view coincides with the so -called quadrature of the circle for the Capitoline project, never so expressive and compact from the point of view of writing (not by chance, compared to certain past prolisions, the tracklist lasts just thirty -seven minutes), as well as uninhibited in moving among the influences pulled into question.
Songs that start so from the 'usual' alcest, deafheaveaven and Lantlôs, but often ending up overturning its internal balances, with shoegaze, post-rock and Dream pop solutions to represent, much more than metal ones, the fulcrum of the narrative, also cracked by a use that is far from shy or detained cleaning.
And it is precisely from this softening that one can say the true talent of today's Svnths emerges, whose ability to try their hand in bright, delicate, yet never fainted melodic lines, means that each episode ends up hitting in the mark and being listened to really pleasantly.
On the other hand, although ours reinvento nothing from a strictly formal point of view, it is rare in this field to come across an amalgam that, in his watching insistently with catchy and light plots, keeps the sound research and depth intact, but episodes such as “Cinnamon Moon”, “Elephant” and “Nairobi Lullaby” show that they pitched and companions, in 2025, More famous (think of the Harakiri for the Sky) sometimes arrange, somehow collect the legacy of the fellow citizens November and Klimt 1918.
Enclosed by a warm and organic production, perfect for enhancing the emotional character of the proposal, “Pink Noise Youth” is in short a well -kept and convincing return; A work that, between euphoria and fragility, lends itself well to marking these spring days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hppr0mfxqs