The friends at Fuzz Club Records, a label based in London, UK, generally have a keen eye on everything happening in our continent concerning neo-psychedelic music, and in this sense, they don't overlook what's happening in our peninsula.

It was indeed the label of Singapore Sling, Underground Youth, Radar Men From The Moon... that released the works of the two groups that can be considered the true 'standard-bearers' of Italian neo-psychedelia, Sonic Jesus and New Candys, as well as variously the records of Piatcions, Throw Down Bones, and the krautgaze of My Invisible Friend.

The latest chapter of this ideal bridge between London and Italy set up by the London label is the second LP by The Gluts, a group coming from the Milanese underground and composed of Nicolò J. Campana (vocals), Marco Campana (guitars), Claudio Cesena (bass), Dario Bassi (drums).

Up until now known mainly as a reality mostly inspired by the post-punk sounds of the early eighties (their debut album, released in 2014 on Nasoni Records, is called in fact 'Warsaw') with this new album ('Estasi') released last May 5th obviously on Fuzz Club Records, the group opens up to new sonic frontiers that variously refer to shoegaze and psychedelic music. Starting particularly from the sounds of the New Yorkers White Hills with whom the band had the opportunity to share the stage on a couple of occasions during their last Italian tour.

In any case, the references remain strong and marked to what someone defines as 'dark-wave' or variably and generally as post-punk ('Ash', 'Richard'...) with inevitable echoes of Joy Division ('Home') or Public Image Limited ('Colline bianche', 'Controller') in general for the bass sound and the proposal of obsessive sounds and hypnotism suggestions.

However, in all cases, the band's sound is compulsive, bubbling with underwater pulsations ranging from the most extreme shoegaze of the Telescopes to real noise frenzies that create infinite reverberations and those that can be defined as real air pockets ('That's Me') and rarefied and violent atmospheres as in the most difficult and expressionist works of Singapore Sling ('Squirrel', 'Come To Fire', 'Ponytail') up to the construction of real three-dimensional sound structures in the style of the early Black Angels ('I Realize That I'm Not So Dub', the interlude of 'Usiku Mweva') which give the album a certain variety of sound, yet without ever derailing, despite all these clattering, from the main track on an unmissable journey towards that droning ecstasy which in the cybernetic age corresponds with what once would have been defined as 'mysticism' and contemplation of religious truth.

Tracklist

01   Colline Bianche (00:00)

02   Richard (00:00)

03   Home (00:00)

04   Controller (00:00)

05   That's Me (00:00)

06   Squirrel (00:00)

07   I Realize That I Am Not So Dumb (00:00)

08   Usiku Mweva (00:00)

09   Come To Fire (00:00)

10   Ponytail (00:00)

11   Ash (00:00)

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