“Carries that signature blend of earnest emotion and deprecating humour, occupying a space between nostalgic longing and existential dread where we are left to scrabble for comfort wherever we might find it.” So we wrote about the amazing Lorenzo Landini‘s single ‘Rockaway’ back in 2024, a track which typified the way the Philadelphia-based artist combines heart and playfulness into a uniquely sincere sound. This style holds true across Landini’s work. Be it concerning anarchist theory and Charles Dickens as with debut album a moving spectacle for compassionate minds, or the zero-sum stakes in the world of sport on follow-up Wins Above Replacement, he mines his subject matter for all its peculiar details while always relating them to the human experience with a sense of defiance or catharsis. “The presiding spirit of Wins Above Replacement [is an] embrace of contradiction.” as we wrote in our review of the latter. “Because, like sports, life can feel like a whole lot of suffering until those moments where it’s suddenly wonderful.”
This November will see the release of a brand new full-length from the amazing Lorenzo Landini. The album, titled radical with the subtitle or, all the good revolutionaries are dead (cuz we killed them), looks set to further the aforementioned style, as previewed by lead ‘firebrush’. Inspired by the Osorno volcano in Chile, the song takes the image of the titular perennial to explore ideas of life and transformation within inhospitable conditions, as though holding onto hope that within the burning world of the present moment, new growth might be possible yet.