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Established in the early ’80s, the North-East Italian band LDV (La Dolce Vita) from Udine cruised with unbridled teen passion the Post-punk local wave, coasting the spiritually close, yet geographically far, historical Punk and Wave epicentres such as Bologna, Milan, and Pordenone.
After more than three decades, the band is reunited, changing members, rearranging old songs and writing new ones, which, through a worthwhile affiliation with the independent label Mold Records, have been released through the first endeavour of the LDV’s MkII incarnation, the “1979” EP in 2022, replete with the group’s rejuvinated iconic classics, and two years later with the retrospective first album, “Confessions,” an existential anthology of the band’s legacy.
The terse and high-energy song bristles with bracing, taut immediacy from the outset through bustling drum beats and squiggly, darting basslines, ceaselessly fueling shaking, nervy, sharp guitar riffs, achingly wailing alonside icy buzzing keyboards, to inject high-echoing electricity on top of bold, restless male vocals, turning into an angry obsessive “someone will find you” loop.
To accompany the myriad of ways “every man kills the thing he loves” described in the lyrics of “Hide Yourself From Love”, a film by Sergio Cinghiale stars Nina Bigatton as a woman who is outside, running for her life, somewhere in Istria. Dramatic lights and shadows and up-close, screwed camera angles combine with the fear and paranoia expressed on Bigatton’s face to create a heady and frightening thriller, syncing seamlessly with the edgy energy of the soundtrack.
“Hide Yourself From Love” cover artwork
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Photo by Michele Rossi
