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01. NOT WAVING - Believe
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02. NOT WAVING - Head Body
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03. NOT WAVING - 24
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04. NOT WAVING - Tomorrow We Will Kill You
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05. NOT WAVING - I Know I Know I Know
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06. NOT WAVING - Punch
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07. NOT WAVING - Gutsy
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08. NOT WAVING - Face Attack
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09. NOT WAVING - Presenza Immobile
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10. NOT WAVING - Work Talk
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11. NOT WAVING - They Cannot Be Replaced
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12. NOT WAVING - 28 (CD only)
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ARTIST
NOT WAVING
TITLE
Animals
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DIAGONAL
CATALOG #
DIAG 025CD
DIAG 025CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/4/2016
London-based Italian artist
Alessio Natalizia
aka
Not Waving
presents
Animals
, the project's most versatile album to date. It's an unruly yet emotive bender taking in dancefloor-mauling new beta and endearingly beery post-industrial synth music.
Animals
harnesses the wanderlust of Natalizia's spate of self-released albums and records for Ecstatic and Emotional Response but dials up the wildness, spitting out a careering sequence of tracks that feel as warped, deep-raved, and giddy as a night out in the city where they were forged. And make no mistake, although
Animals
occasionally bites hard at the business end of the dancefloor, this is Diagonal's most pop album yet, with Natalizia's songwriting sensibility conjuring moments of tenderness and beauty to offset the manic strobe lighting and dropping sweat. Opener "Believe" is one such moment, a twisting synth workout that bounces along over rock-ist live toms. The tie is loosened on "Head Body," as Not Waving unleashes a raging kosmic EBM showpiece that morphs across six sprawling minutes. Next up is "24," the album "hit" that delighted and destroyed dancefloors throughout 2015, with clear influences from
Front 242
and
Ancient Methods
. The shunting "Gutsy" and whopping industrial stress-test "Work Talk" buckle down like mutant
Powell
cuts, whereas "I Know I Know I Know" and the thrashing EBM-pop of "Face Attack" run
The Sound of Belgium
(LMFLF 287CD/296LP, 2015) through a distinctly Diagonal filter, all smart edits and unruly arrangements. The great strength of
Animals
, though, lies in how Natalizia marries the clammy peaks of contemporary club music with oddly emotive runs into acidic Canterbury pop (as on "Tomorrow We Will Kill You") and cyborg despair (see "Punch") before the bittersweet "They Cannot Be Replaced." In short, this is Not Waving laying down some of his most sophisticated songwriting and finding an entirely appropriate home for his own distinctive sound.
Animals
is Diagonal's sixth artist album, following releases by
Russell Haswell
(including DIAG 024CD/LP, 2015),
The Skull Defekts
,
Shit & Shine
(DIAG 012CD, 2014), and
Death Comet Crew
(DIAG 006LP, 2013). Art by Diagonal whiz
Guy Featherstone
. Mastered and cut by
Matt Colton
. CD version includes two bonus tracks.
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