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Trollheart · 09-16-2017, 10:48 AM

Album title: L'amore E La Violenza
Artist: Baustelle
Genre: Indie Rock
Nationality: Italian
Release date: January 12
Position in Discography: Ninth
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Not Italian, no
Check out more from this artist? Might do, yes
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Possibly

These guys have been going since 2000 and have, now, nine albums, so why haven't I heard of them before? Oh yeah, that's right: because I don't give a flying **** about Italian indie rock. But should I? Probably not, though the opening track is certainly catchy enough. I assume, with my extremely limited grasp of Italian, that the title of the album translates to “Love and Violence”, and some of the tracks are either titled in English or easy to work out, like “Eurofestival”, “La Musica Sinfonica” and “L'era Dell'Acquario”, though whether this last is a cover version of the old sixties hit or not I won't know for a little bit*. I'm betting not. “Amanda Lear” sounds more electronica, more Moroder than anything else. It's pleasant, but not what I'd call rock. Nothing I hate so far though, and we're nearly halfway through. Yeah, this kind of weaves a path between electronica, synthpop and the odd bit of rock. Good though.

* It wasn't.

09-16-2017, 10:48 AM	#104 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: L'amore E La Violenza Artist: Baustelle Genre: Indie Rock Nationality: Italian Release date: January 12 Position in Discography: Ninth Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Not Italian, no Check out more from this artist? Might do, yes Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Possibly These guys have been going since 2000 and have, now, nine albums, so why haven't I heard of them before? Oh yeah, that's right: because I don't give a flying **** about Italian indie rock. But should I? Probably not, though the opening track is certainly catchy enough. I assume, with my extremely limited grasp of Italian, that the title of the album translates to “Love and Violence”, and some of the tracks are either titled in English or easy to work out, like “Eurofestival”, “La Musica Sinfonica” and “L'era Dell'Acquario”, though whether this last is a cover version of the old sixties hit or not I won't know for a little bit. I'm betting not. “Amanda Lear” sounds more electronica, more Moroder than anything else. It's pleasant, but not what I'd call rock. Nothing I hate so far though, and we're nearly halfway through. Yeah, this kind of weaves a path between electronica, synthpop and the odd bit of rock. Good though. It wasn't. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 10-07-2017 at 05:44 AM.