Italia 90 – Competition
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| Italia 90 - Competition |
Release Date: Out Now
First things first, Italia 90 is
a great name for a band. It was the World Cup that got me in to football and it
spawned the greatest football song of all time so I’m chuffed that there is a
band named after this iconic tournament. This single from the London quartet
starts with an unholy slab of feedback and a military rhythm (I say military in
the sense of Viking army) and at around the minute mark some sort of beat
breaks out from the haze and then the kind of vocal that Ian Dury made a living
from. This is intense stuff and some would call it art rock or post punk but to
me this is just powerful honesty and a passion to say something. This near
spoken word mantra “freedom to choose, freedom to lose” is repeated and the
guitars spiral in to a never-ending landscape of concrete bleakness straight
out of an 80s HIV public warning advert. Essentially, if you want to hear what
Theresa May’s Britain will look like in a few years then listen to this. All
seven minutes of it.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/italia90band/