“The place we were inspired by is the airport. Not one in particular, but the imagery of all the elements that make up the experience of traveling by flight. By plane is the fastest and most comfortable way to move, but it’s also the one in which you are subjected to a greater identity control“.
To try to pick up the signals of a frenetic society with no way out, submeet have entered one of the noisiest existing places: an airport terminal, with the voices and screams of the passengers that merge with the din of the planes that land or take off. It’s in this place of passage and exchange that Terminal was born, the first album out January 24, 2020 on vinyl and digital on Lady Sometimes Records by the Italian trio formed by Andrea Zanini, Andrea Guardabascio and Jacopo Rossi that had previously released a homonymous EP in 2017.
Since then many things have changed. The sound, first of all: from the shoegaze of the early times submeet have moved on to a hybrid of post-punk and noise with very specific references. In recent years the band has played a lot, both in Italy and abroad (let’s remember the tour in France and Switzerland), through the word of mouth of fellow musicians and professionals. And so they have opened gigs for Be Forest, Soviet Soviet, and also for Preoccupations who personally chose submeet as supporting act.
In Terminal‘s furious sound there are at least two possible landmarks: the already mentioned Preoccupations, because of the post-punk aspects, and the sonic noise of A Place To Bury Strangers. But submeet’s style goes further: from hieratic clangs that explode in out-of-control outbursts – it happens on the first single Terminal, available on all digital platforms with a video realized by Zannunzio – to the less sharp sounds of Nimby or the frantic flashes of BGY. Let’s prepare to take off!
