Lantern
Diavoleria

Let's admit it: hearing our language combined with post-hardcore or screamo makes everything more beautiful, more poetic, and more complete, especially if you can also perceive the words.

The Lantern is a young quartet from Rimini, and “Diavoleria” follows the EP “Noicomete,” placing itself in the lineage of Italian productions like Raein and looking overseas towards Touché Amoré in the way they cleverly play with melodies, although with a mood that remains consistently melodramatic unlike the sense of resilience or hope that emerges from an album like “Is Survived By.”

About 20 minutes of music, only eight chapters (interspersed with quotes from Woody Allen's '89 movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” that give a bizarre air to the whole and perhaps could have been set aside to avoid pauses), yet conceptually there's as much material inside as there is in two albums. Sonic shards of glass, unexploded bombs, but intelligently arranged to avoid a monolith where individual tracks don't distinguish from one another.

The opener “Inferno a rotta di collo” stands out for its lyrics (“Announcing our oblivion, we designed our solitude. As astro-engineers, we build worlds and sidereal passages. I don't remember the faces, I confuse the stories of evenings spent forgetting to pretend to want anything different from you”) and also ranks among the best pieces, showing us a group that hits hard with instruments, without however foregoing a fleeting melodic diversion both vocally and instrumentally that serves as a preamble to the explosion, as happens also in “Blek macigno” and throughout the album where twists and changes of scene are not lacking within individual episodes.

It goes from the more exasperated tones of “Il segreto delle ragazze” or “Siberia” to the particular “L'invincibile S50” (whose title refers to an old woodworking machine, without forgetting the passion for cinematic quotes) a sort of apocalyptic and decadent Massimo Volume but extremized. Not to forget "Antonio": an effective sixty-second spot where no smoke is sold, but rage and sincere emotions.

A production by three Fallo Dischi, V4V, and Flyind Kids Records for an album that you can listen to freely without commitments thanks to trusty Bandcamp.

Surely the oblivion they sing about does not concern them, young and skilled astro-engineers whose faces and excellent architectural designs like “Diavoleria” we will certainly remember.