National Music Reviews
Lust for Youth
Perfect View
Sacred Bones
Street: 06.11
Lust For Youth = Vår + Body of Light + Cold Cave
Swede Hannes Norrvide’s third Lust for Youth album is more accessible and more confidently produced than anything that’s come before it. It’s no small wonder that this group is at the fore of the current dark wave of Northern European synth-punk bands. The mantra of “Breaking Silence” serves as a manifesto for the crop of Posh Isolation via Sacred Bones minimal synth crowd, to which Norrvide belongs—between pockets of isolation can be found blisses of youthful club synth fantasies. Perfect View doesn’t get stuck in the usual minimal synth rut—its tracks are dynamic and playful within the genre, making it an album worth swimming around in. –Christian Schultz