Universal Sex Arena - Romancitysm

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 3 / 2 / 2015

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This ambitious second album from 60’s-influenced Italian fun popsters Universal Sex Arena should leave you feeling rest assured. They are still rather wild, yet not life threatening. The self-appointed idiosyncrasies of Universal Sex Arena’s linguistics come in Italinglish, which is pleasant on the ear but a language which is difficult to understand. Sing-song rock-outs such as 'Sudden Donna' add to this cross-cultural dilemma. When this is finally resolved, 'Romancitysm' takes a turn towards seemingly endless spaghetti sonics. It loses focus - noodles sliding down from the kitchen wall - until, and just in time, a snappy synthesizer funk sound is introduced on 'Eyes Telling the Future'. The album's penultimate track 'The Ghost Town' is in a similar vein. You'll hear a clumsy yet daring mish-mash of freeform à la Italiano. 'Romancitysm' is far too odd to dismiss.

Track Listing:-

1 Breathe the Light
2 The Last Detroit's Urbanist
3 Sudden Donna
4 Take My Shirt Off
5 Eyes Yelling "The Future"
6 The Ghost Town
7 The Legendary Healer

Band Links:-

http://www.universalsexarena.com/
https://twitter.com/univsexarena
https://www.facebook.com/universalsexarena

Label Links:-

http://www.latempesta.org/
https://www.facebook.com/la.tempesta.dischi
https://twitter.com/tempestadischi
http://latempestadischi.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/enricomolteni

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