If you are a regular visitor to the Black Metal Archives, you may have read my musings on the tracks SVNTH have so far released from Pink Noise Youth. And if you have then you know it would be safe to assume that this is one of my most anticipated albums of 2025..
Well, the day has now come and SVNTH have set Pink Noise Youth loose upon the world, which beggars the question: Were the three singles offered a fair reflection of the album or were they just a lucky triple case of catching lighting in a bottle?
The answer to this is fairly simple. Yes, yes it does.
Pink Noise Youth is an epic record and lives up to the hype my brain had surrounded it with, and then some. It is a whirling dervish of an album., jumping to and from genres and styles like an ADHD kid hopped up on sugar, but embracing each one on equal merits and assimilating then into the beautiful wall of noise that SVNTH create.
At times black metal, at times introspective thoughts caught forever in haunting melodies, Pink Noise Youth is as much a desperate, desolate and silent cry into the gathering storm as it is an angry, violent roar into the face of the abyss. It is the musical equivalent of The Scream by Edvard Munch brought to life.
As with all things there are influences. I hear Mayhem, I hear Glassjaw, I hear mid 80s goth – though that one might just be me – but I also hear the sounds of sitar and a heavy dose of Middle Eastern mysticism dripping from the songs. Songs, I may add, that are carved to perfection from the Rock of (Metal) Ages.
SVNTH are in scintillating form across the eight tracks Pink Noise Youth offers. Having already fallen in love with Cinnamon Moon, Perfume, and Narrow Narrow, there was always the chance I’d turn up to the ball and find out that Cinderella was actually a huge, hairy brick layer from Romford called Dave, but unlike so many tragic Tinder dates – damn you, Dave, and your catfishing ways – Pink Noise Youth is as beautiful as advertised.
Every single member of SVNTH bring their A-game, but – at least for me – my Man of the Match is Alessandro Canzoneri, a man so talented behind the drum kit that I’m glad I quit playing a long time ago, as if I still did I’d jack it in on the principal I’d never be able to come close to the shit he can pull off, which he does while making it seem so effortlessly.
The fact is that Pink Noise Youth by SVNTH not only delivers on the promises made by its three lead off singles, it surpasses them by a country mile. This is album of the year material. This is a case of do believe the fucking hype. This is proper.
You can order Pink Noise Youth from the SVNTH Bandcamp page or via These Hands Melt Records.
RATING: 4.5 OUT OF 5
RATING SYSTEM:
- 0 – 1: Fucking shit
- 1 – 2: Shit
- 2 – 3: Not Bad Shit
- 3 – 4: Pretty Good Shit
- 4 – 5: Amazing Fucking Shit
- 5: The Best Shit You Will Ever Hear
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