Swedish electrophile Hannes Norrvide, made his debut under the moniker Lust For Youth with 2012's "Growing Seeds", amidst a decade where the cultural zeitgeist's newfound adoration of invincible youth culture and dancey "live fast, die young" California not-pop unabashedly reigned. No, Lust For Youth abandoned the hypocrisy of modern dance pop and plummeted to the depths of world-wariness and teen despair with the elegance and bravado of electronica's roots.
Straying (but ever, so slightly) from the kitschy casio-tinged melodies of their debut and last year's "Perfect View"; the band's recent offering, "International" finds Norrvide and company exploring fuller, more lush sonic escapades. The bleeps and bloops that previously defined them are somberly blanketed in the background; texturally aiding the mopey dancefloor backbeat under impeding waves of forlorn synthlines. It's a time-tested, albeit perfected, formula (see: Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, etc) and the blatantly persuasive new romantic leanings could make them inadvertently dismissible- if it weren't for the level of earnest conviction and humble reinterpretation the band demonstrates throughout the album.
The element that separates Lust For Youth the most from the onslaught of throwback acts is its self-awareness; this is a band that has ZERO reservations about pushing itself into directions that embrace genre nostalgia. From Norrvide's reverbed Ian Curtis croon noodling in and out of silky dance contemplation to the layers of orchestrated gloompop, "International" is an album that will inevitably have the uninitiated listener wondering why they never found any B-sides of Lust For Youth on their "Unsung Heroes Of The 80's" box set.
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