Redworms' Farm
4 [EP]

Italians do it better: part 4

This is the first time I'm doing it. Writing a review - although, in this case, I would refer more to "advice" - after only two listens, I mean. It's not indifference, but confidence. Confidence in finding in Redworms' Farm the sturdy trio as always: dual guitars and drums composing songs strictly under three minutes, for records that often see the half-hour mark from afar, with binoculars. Those who know "Amazing!" or the latest "Cane Gorilla Serpente" know what we're talking about. Those who, however, are more or less consciously unaware of these important pages of Italian post-punk at heart and strictly American in intentions, should start from the beginning.

While waiting for someone else to notice our three favorite guys from Padua, perhaps coinciding with the release of the fifth album now being recorded, you can easily entertain yourselves with this 7'' vinyl EP. A "4" that is anything but rhetorical, because it suspends in many ways the discourse of physical power and the something -core speed eyed over several years, returning to the electronic roots that made the early performances of the group so successful. The sound deforms, takes courage, and becomes darker, at times almost alien. Rhythms break, an acoustic guitar appears in a magnificently synthetic context, the six strings devour one danceable beat after another. And then the dual-voice choruses return, the flawed pronunciation, Matteo Di Lucca's battered toms, the dry geometries of Shellac. Quite a mess, in short. The old new Redworms’ Farm. Definitely a tasty appetizer of what might be dissected over the long (so to speak) distance.

That's about it. If you wish, mark on paper the thunderous roar of "Wasted", the perfectly circular crawl in "Revman" (a prize for whoever samples the opening, connecting, and closing riff first...), the squared torpedoes of "Cane Mangia Cane" and the mists of "Never Repeat", which with a synth and a handful of dissonances creates a futuristic no wave masterpiece. The rest to follow.