PREVIEW: Kint – New Waves [Video]

It's called "New Waves", the single that previews the new album by the band Kint, "Losses", out June 19th via Transition Totem, whose video is being premiered exclusively on OndaRock's homepage. A personal, visceral blend of goth blues, noise rock and shoegaze, weaving dark atmospheres together with saturated guitars and deep reverbs to create a rarefied sonic landscape. "The video for 'New Waves' – the band explains – grew out of a fragment of reality captured almost by chance, only later recontextualized within the universe of the track." They continue: "In 2022, during an artist residency in Brest for the DañsFabrik festival, Raffaele Marchetti filmed a public workshop led by choreographer Eric Minh Cuong Castaing in the spaces of the Ateliers des Capucins, former naval workshops turned into a huge cultural center suspended above the city. In that open environment, crossed by a continuous flow of people, performers and audience blurred together into a collective dimension underscored by minimal techno pulses. The footage, gathered without any precise narrative intent, stems from a desire to hold on to the atmosphere of that moment.

Over time, that footage found a new form, resonating with the meaning of 'New Waves'. Bodies in motion, immersed in an unpredictable, shared dynamic, thus become a visual metaphor for the track: a continuous oscillation between momentum and loss of control, immersion and resistance. The video was subsequently reworked by Stefano Villani, who deconstructed its original flow through an abstract visual treatment deeply tied to the track's sonic dimension. The effects applied to the images act like waves: not just physical ones, but sonic ones too. The result amplifies the relationship between movement and sound, evoking unstable, layered landscapes in which the boundary between body, vibration and memory gradually dissolves. What emerges is a non-linear narrative, suspended between document and reinterpretation, reflecting the essence of 'New Waves': an emotional crossing in which every wave can turn into either direction or disorientation." Kint were formed in 2017 out of the sonic wreckage of Death of Anna Karina, carrying with them the urgency, weight and awareness of a path that left a deep mark on the Italian noise punk scene and beyond. Raffaele Marchetti (guitar and vocals), Adriano Pratissoli (drums) and Andrea Ghiacci (bass) turn that legacy into something more layered and darker. The structures grow tenser, the silences denser, the impact more controlled but no less fierce. Kint's sound is a compact, abrasive substance, where noise and melody coexist in unstable balance and disenchantment becomes language. Over the years the band has played stages in Italy and abroad, building an intense, physical live dimension, sharing bills with cult acts like METZ, Whores and Sumac.

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