Kill Your Boyfriend
Ghosts

Ghosts as fetishes implanted in the mind, natural bearers of repressed and suffocated anxieties. This is a journey into the deepest recesses of the human psyche, a Dantesque hell of our soul with no chance of atonement, of redemption. Welcome to your fears, welcome to the magical, horrific world of our own Kill Your Boyfriend.

Active since 2011, KYB also leave a strong mark on 2016 with a masterful work produced in collaboration with the Italian independent label Shyrec. Matteo Scarpa (guitar and vocals) and Antonio Angeli (drums) open the macabre dance of this short but intense EP "Ghost" with the claustrophobic "Man 1", a hypnotic lullaby that pushes us down a slippery spiral with no steps or handrails. The same story continues with the following "Man 9" introduced by glacial reverberations, developing-folding itself on a driving bass line that traces the way to the underworld. The territory is now sparse and our nightmares visible to the naked eye; we are what we would not have wanted to be in this no man's land, tormented by our guilt, regrets, distracted by our frivolities. Dark atmospheres enriched by a synth played with military rigor and Scarpa's agonizing, resigned scream in "Man 4" are the definitive seal, the point of no return. The slow and inexorable progress of the third track leads us to an epilogue foretold since the beginning of the journey. "Man 5" is perhaps the darkest of all the five tracks and closes the work in a tribal rite that unfolds over almost three minutes of obsessive martial step. Then the end.

Thirteen minutes of exquisite craftsmanship, between dreamy dark-wave and energetic post-punk, contaminated by a delirious new-psychedelia, are the irrefutable proof of an artistic maturity that, work after work, takes shape and substance and gives us good vibes for the future of this extraordinary duo from Treviso.