LINEA 77 - Available For Propaganda

Linea 77 are Italy's standard-bearers of crossover music abroad. For some time now on Erache, and for some time now, probably the best-known Italian rock band overseas. It would be easy to take potshots, claiming that the Venaria-based group is the sorry custodian of an outdated style, one that already said everything it had to say in terms of freshness and innovation (?), and was perhaps never truly on point except when thrust into the rock spotlight by the likes of Rage Against Machine and Faith No More. So why fall into the easy, snobbish clichés of the most pseudo-cultured and unforgiving critics?

In truth, "Available For Propaganda" is an excellent piece of "alternative mainstream rock", tailored for a well-defined audience, which won't be short of satisfaction in terms of metallic good vibrations. The record boasts the collaboration of Dave Collins, who has already worked with the likes of Madonna, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, Black Sabbath and Soundgarden among others, and who supported the band during mastering, a testament to the status the band has now achieved.

But let's get to the heart of the matter: the album. Linea 77 have built their sound on solid hardcore-melodic foundations, with proto-rap vocals, but stopping just short of getting bogged down in nu-metal swamps. On "Available For Propaganda", true to form, the band pounds away from start to finish, without a moment's breath. "Fist" is a punch in the gut right from the off, fast and ferocious, yet with a melodic appeal that won't fail to strike the Mtv-lobotomized fan. And so it carries straight on through the hardcore epilepsy of "But I Thought Everything Was Alright" and the funk-metal of "ADHD", the record slips by pleasantly, giving the sense that where creativity falls short, craft picks up the slack.

An adrenaline-fuelled, fun album.

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30/04/2026