Single Review: You, Nothing - Lullaby

You, Nothing formed in Verona, Italy in 2019 with a love 80s/90s Shoegaze and Alternative Rock at the core of their ambitions. Ryan Doyle Elward listened to new single 'Lullaby' and summed it up with his usual astuteness.  

                                   You, Nothing - Lullaby

Flowering meadows and impending storms. Watch your life in VHS on an old 80s TV. Rewind it, press play again.Everything goes, everything comes.

                                         Like You,

                                         Like Nothing

                                        Like You, Nothing.

 Selective focus is implicit to the formula of a lullaby: drifting scenes, a serene narrative. Different than a daydream, and not a dream at night, either. Previous albums from You,Nothing. like early 2021’s Lonely // Lovely is productively busy and informed by Perfect Pussy, The Joy Formidable, and akin to the kind of far-reaching, varying catalog produced by Sonic Youth. It is a portmanteau of punk, haunt, heavy delay, and distortion.

By comparison, their December 10 release ‘Lullaby’ is black-lit, authenticating only shoegaze oriented, cool-toned elements. This is a transition shown well by the changes between this track and ‘Reflectie,’ the single from Lonely // Lovely.

A quickish, sweet synopsis, ‘Lullaby’ embodies its name in sound and structure. It sets up a surreal, liminal space, straddling the past and present, and proposes a beautiful impossibility:that our memory might capture only the best experiences and emotions. 

                                                   r.d.e

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