komakino: post-punk noise dreampop shoegaze indie & DIY fanzine

It's a small bunch of years I follow this amazing band, The Marias, they are unable to write a wrong track.. and of course you instantly fall in love with Maria Zardoya, even too easy that, but, for fcksake, their Music is so gently, instantly beautiful, sheerly ecstatic, and she and Josh Conway share a pure obsession for details in writing Music, an exquisite taste for details, musicaly and visually. They were already huge on Superclean ep's (2017) and Cinema LP (2021).. Submarine (2024) wants perfection. Best luck to them all. Press play, one more flawless live performance for them, enjoy, fall in love.

More from the invisible DIY Italian scene: Clangore, with a self-titled release from A.D. 2019, today still worthy a note.
Monicker for Davide Mastrullo (formerly in Elettronoir), Rome-based illustrator and musician confronting and exploring the buzzing and reverbed galaxy of post-punk alienation. 
Vocals sometimes whispered, guitar fuzz squall gently cascading into reverb, and obsessive drum machine beats, synth. 
Nuovi giorni opens this EP with abrasive melancholy, a manifesto of tension and intensity. Later, Baratto goes Suicide-like, with this dancy straight beat, sinister basslines, distorted guitars like an incoming thunderstorm and bending and shifting notes keys, while Davide sings/describes all the hallmarks of consumerism that command and consume people's personalities. This also happens with Donny Fegato: a torturing, hammering beat and a narrative shared by teetering vocals and trascending guitar fuzz, a long jump into the abyss of pressure and consciousness.
Track Clorofilla speaks 80s dark tones music, like the casio claps on the unchanging drumbeat progression, a song about despair and rebirth. Last track Immerso shares a sort of hummable refrain, sonically and thematically true to the soliloquy spirit of the other tracks.
Definitely an EP disc of distress and release into decay.

Valerian Swing go classy with this new title. Still abrasive, still obscure, still acrobatically tightrope walking, yes, still.. but here they know more than ever before how to control their far-from-stochastic chaos and mold it with a gelid, futuristic glove, able to masterfully shape and explode at the same time their frenetic ego and estrus. An instrumental record with several different voices reflecting in a splintering mirror of clashing sounds.
Fourth LP to date, released on USA CA based Pax Aeternum Digital, our heroes from Correggio (ITA), with the opening two tracks, Gor-ai and Atacama I, they twirl post-rock and kraut realms, like a modernization of Tangerine Dream cinematic meditation, overloaded with Shiva-drummer David Ferretti and explained to future generations balancing orchestral movements and electric strings magic by Stefano Villani and Francesco Giovanetti: The Ritual is fully visionary, pulsing and celestial. And when you think you understood the Music they are writing, here it comes the fast rap on Badman (Ting) feat. Flowdan, UK grime MC and music producer. An evidence of Valerian Swing free spirit.
And there is no way to get back down to earth, because song Indigo features Giovanna Cacciola of Uzeda, here surprisingly ethereal and out of her body, adding her very own pagan chemistry and call to higher gods. Then they add jazz trumpets and piano on Pond Riddim, and go completly free-form on Home: Liminal proves they can music soundscore of your mental breakdown or of your astral trip: it just depends on you.