NEWT. - Voider

Debut album for Bologna's Newt., stuck in a time bubble branded with four numbers burned in: 1.9.9.1. It's an aesthetic that keeps winning converts, drawing in both the most hardline nostalgics and younger generations, who trace in those sounds - and above all in that way of playing - a spirit that too often feels lost. Yet for many musicians the urge to gather in a garage, or rent a rehearsal room and crank the amps all the way up, remains strong, screw the sales charts stuffed with trap and Auto-Tune. Newt. aren't newcomers: they come from other bands, Marnero, ED and Antares, and today they look back, but only to sketch out a hypothesis for an alternative present.

The quartet's reference points are glaringly obvious, and rather imposing too, starting with the grunge of Nirvana, Mudhoney and Tad, and the propulsive garage-psych of Motorpsycho. But Newt. bring plenty of their own to the table, crafting ten tracks with a life of their own. There's the electric fury of "Acetoned", the hard-psych of "Sleepwalk", the sheer effectiveness of "This Place", the stadium-sized chorus chased down on "Nobody", but also the melodic tension that surfaces within the coils of "Saturnine", where it's precisely when they slow down that they land a masterstroke.

To make it all feel even more "authentic", the album's mastering was entrusted to Jack Endino - yes, that Jack Endino, the man behind Reciprocal Studios, the recording studio where countless albums that came to symbolize the golden age of the Seattle Sound were born.

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23/03/2026