Vonamor is the debut album by Italian trio Vonamor who are the sisters Giulia and Francesca Bottaro alongside Luca Guidobaldi and was recorded in Rome by Luca D'Aversa and Lucio Leoni.
The album opens with the close and claustrophobic sounds of Empire that sounds like it's describing a weekend of Larping at Empire as the lyrics about secret clothes and fire unfold. The breakdown in the middle adds all sorts of elements and makes it go a bit goth jazz with sampled voices babbling into the void as the civilizations clash.
Lucky You has a strange Flute funk goth feel as the biblical incantations and other desperate and disparate lyrics keep trying to find a way through the flute funk murk to summon the storm clouds of timpani into a song that I want to hit repeat on a few times.
Never Betray Us is a slow sparse song hoping for fair treatment in among the swooshing sounds and wonderfully warbly vocals.
Take Your Heart starts off with a slow thudding beat like Rema Rema and when the female vocals come in it has more echoes of Torch Song, this is for the darkest of dancefloors as you gyrate in the pitch-black dark making out the silhouettes of the other dancers writhing around you. When the male counterpart vocals come in it only adds to the dark mystery that's unfolding. The song will grow on you the more you hear it a very cool single.
You The People the second single from the album has an experimental approach with skittery percussion alongside male and female vocals that get subsumed by the rapier guitars and assorted other noises, this is ultra-modern gothic and dark, as it switches from being enticing and drawing you into a seductive world, through to be expelled and thrown out for going too far or is it not far enough.
Mother Night is a slow wistful tune that draws you into its world with french vocals that have echoes of Catherine Ringer and a dark clubby feel as if you are lost at 3 am in Monmartre.
Fast Forward Girl has a thumping club beat with synths that go quite space age in places and the male female vocals whispering all sorts into your ears as this builds and builds like your flying across a city at top speed and everything is getting a little bit blurred around the edges, but nothing that some good whirling dervish style dancing won't cure.
The album closes with Wilderness that has some very fraught guitar and panting in your ear vocals like whispered instructions as the noise abates and the calm descends as if finally, everything is ok again and the vocals can mimic Laurie Anderson a tiny bit.
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