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01. NOT WAVING - I Love Trance
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02. NOT WAVING - Me Me Me
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03. NOT WAVING - Children Are Our Phuture
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04. NOT WAVING - Walk Of Shame
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05. NOT WAVING - Where Are We
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06. NOT WAVING - Teach Me
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07. NOT WAVING - Forever
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08. NOT WAVING - Her Quality
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09. NOT WAVING - Interested Going
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10. NOT WAVING - Watch Yourself
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11. NOT WAVING - Tool [I Don’t Give A Shit]
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12. NOT WAVING - Roll Along With The Pain Of It All [I'll Text U]
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ARTIST
NOT WAVING
TITLE
Good Luck
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DIAGONAL
CATALOG #
DIAG 042CD
DIAG 042CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/3/2017
Alessio Natalizia
, aka
Not Waving
, rides the wave of a lifetime on his magnum opus,
Good Luck
. The London-based Italian artist's second album for Diagonal is an emotional but fiercely optimistic album of skewed cathartic dance pop written in the midst of these dark and uncertain times (made perhaps more uncertain by the recent birth of his first son). It represents the most ambitious album in his own unique catalogue, a discography that features acclaimed work as part of
Banjo Or Freakout
and Kompakt techno duo
Walls
-- plus half a decade spent at the axis of underground electronics via his own Ecstatic label and his recent, raved-up output for Diagonal. This latest record sees Natalizia fine-tuning 20 years of recording and rave experience into a vibrant, pop-ready statement that's never felt so necessary. It abandons the sensitive streak hinted at on
Animals
(DIAG 025CD/LP, 2016), his debut LP for Diagonal, to pursue a creative hunch for concision and social unity. This new perspective drives the album's flux of emotions and guides what some may find to be a utopian outlook, wrapping his trademark experimental urges, clever song arrangements, and winking edits in a larger narrative. After all, rave 'floors were conceived for many as a way to forget/abandon the dark undercurrents of late '80s political turmoil.
Good Luck
is constructed as an album proper and follows a novel narrative: from the ego-pinching computer punk of "Me Me Me", which jabs it into action, to the new wave thrust of "Tool [I Don't Give A Shit]" and the ambient flush of "Roll Along With The Pain Of It All [I'll Text U]", Natalizia clearly delights in taking us on a frenzied ride, but he never forgets his fondness for contemporary club culture (see the fulminating iridescent EBM-pop of "Where Are We" -- with Montréalais minimal wave chanteuse
Marie Davidson
guesting on vocals -- or the acidic punk jabs of "Watch Yourself").
Good Luck
is a thrillingly positive record; it's delicious, sweet, creamy, and wonderful. And that's the thing: even the title feels like a much-needed injection of optimism, a return to the utopian ideals of rave. Contemporary politics/culture/life/love/music/media seem to be infected by a feeling of impending dread -- of fear, alienation, and division. It feels like there has never been a more important time for a record like this. Artwork by
Guy Featherstone
. Mastered and cut by
Matt Colton
.
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