{"id":13816,"date":"2022-03-16T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/?p=13816"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:59:43","slug":"light-figures-il-nuovo-album-sweet-noise-dei-kick-e-in-uscita-oggi-16-marzo-2022-per-anomic-records-dischi-sotterranei-sour-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digipur.it\/en\/light-figures-il-nuovo-album-sweet-noise-dei-kick-e-in-uscita-oggi-16-marzo-2022-per-anomic-records-dischi-sotterranei-sour-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Light Figures”, il nuovo album sweet noise dei KICK, \u00e8 in uscita oggi 16 marzo 2022 per Anomic Records\/Dischi Sotterranei\/Sour Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweetness and noise, light and dark, soul and body.\u00a0KICK<\/strong>\u00a0are back with the new album\u00a0Light Figures<\/em><\/strong>, out today\u00a0March 16th, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0Anomic Records<\/strong>\u00a0(Germany),\u00a0Dischi Sotterranei<\/strong>\u00a0(Italy)\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0Sour Grapes<\/strong>\u00a0(United Kingdom)\u00a0on all digital platforms, available for pre-order\u00a0on vinyl and cassette.<\/p>\n

KICK<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0Chiara Amalia Bernardini<\/strong>\u00a0(vocals, bass) and\u00a0Nicola Mora<\/strong>\u00a0(guitars, electric piano, synths, samplers), from Brescia. Their sound combines rough elements and others more dreamy in a sound that could ideally be defined “sweet noise<\/strong>“, a style on their own melting the noise with the softness of the atmosphere, without any limits of genre.<\/p>\n

The production of\u00a0Light Figures<\/strong><\/em>, composed between 2019 and 2020, was curated together with\u00a0Marco Fasolo (Jennifer Gentle, I Hate My Village)<\/strong>, known for the international reach of his works.<\/p>\n

Light Figures<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0shows “deviant” melodies and often obsessive rhythms, representing\u00a0a natural change of direction compared to what was previously released by the Italian duo (the debut album\u00a0Mothers<\/em>\u00a0of 2016 and the EP\u00a0Post-Truth\u00a0<\/em>of 2018): the sound become less electronic and at the same time more analogue, minimal and heavy. It’s an approach that reflects a heterogeneous background, able to move from the\u00a0hypnosis of\u00a0trip hop<\/strong>\u00a0to the New York\u00a0no-wave<\/strong>, up to stoner and\u00a0desert rock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Light Figures<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a record made up of\u00a0complementary opposites<\/strong>. “This album wants to enhance the ‘bruises’ of the soul, the ‘dark side’ that characterizes each of us, and that we often try to repress because we are afraid of it. Communicating with our dark side is necessary. Once in a while we have to go out and have a glass of wine with our dark side. Our sunny and darker sides are closely connected, and make sense of each other<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The first single\u00a0Setting Tina<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0sees as a guest on bass\u00a0Scott Reeder<\/strong>, longtime member of Kyuss and currently of Fireball Ministry.\u00a0Marked by a compelling groove,\u00a0Setting Tina<\/em>\u00a0is a peculiar interpretation of the language of populist propaganda, which aims at people’s anger and frustration to manipulate and “set” them as if were machines to be exploited. The name Tina was inspired by the famous Thatcherian slogan “There is no alternative”, with which the former British prime minister declared neo-liberalism as the only possible model of life. Times have changed, but the sense of inevitability unfortunately is still here: we feel victims and mere tools of a sick system that is leading us to collapse.\u00a0Sirens Never Sleep<\/strong><\/em>, following a crooked post-punk footstep, increases its magnetic aura of mystery with lyrics sung partly in an unknown language:\u00a0“Sirens Never Sleep\u00a0is a light-hearted song, an ironic dedication to the sirens who deceive us with their singing, leading us to crash into the rocks<\/em>“.\u00a0The imperious and ambivalent\u00a0Rubberlover\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>goes well with lyrics that investigate a cross-section of BDSM practice. “We are fascinated by exploring the dynamics of power versus submission established between two consenting adults, and by how, in the narrating voice, requests for submission coexist with more typical requests for amorous sweetness<\/em>“.The new single\u00a0Viole<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the first song ever written and published in Italian by KICK. The bucolic theme and the dreamlike dimension of the lyrics are combined with slow, lulling and psychedelic sounds. The song features\u00a0<\/strong>Beppe Scardino\u00a0(C’mon Tigre, Calibro 35) on winds and Fasolo on the guitar in the final coda.<\/p>\n

Bernardini’s\u00a0lyrics<\/strong>, for the first time not only in English but in fact in some tracks also in Italian (listen to the irresistible swing of mood and languages of a track like\u00a0Benvegnuda<\/em>), focus both on the recurring theme of\u00a0love and on social issues<\/strong>. In the first case, we go from the\u00a0BDSM dynamics of\u00a0Rubberlover<\/em>\u00a0to the connection between two souls in the fizzy\u00a0Sparks<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0consolidated relationship told\u00a0in the pastoral ballad\u00a0Eleven<\/em>. In addition to\u00a0Setting Tina<\/em>, on the second case we have the frenetic\u00a024-Hour Delivery Club<\/em>, in reference to the “false needs” generated by an increasingly materialistic society, and the final\u00a0Atlantide<\/em>, against the climate change and its probably apocalyptic consequences.<\/p>\n

Very active also live, both in Italy and abroad,\u00a0KICK\u00a0<\/strong>chose a symbolic photo by Marco Pietracupa as cover image. “The shot depicts an androgynous, almost angelic model. Behind her, there is a natural and heavenly world that opens up. However, there is something in her look and her nakedness, referring to a corporeal and earthly dimension, which would find no space in Paradise as we know it. She is a complex creature, whose ambiguity represents the overcoming of the soul\/body dichotomy and therefore fits perfectly to the concept of\u00a0<\/em>Light Figures<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n