Some bands like making their album conspicuous by an indecent, stupid or particularly unbearable title (I won't name any, but have a good look into your memories or in your records collection), while Klimt 1918 shines for originality and let their first album start with a piece of a few more than a minute that is completely useless so that they haven't neither rightly thought to give it a title. What's the advantage of such a choice? None, but that of bewildering, trying to discourage some listeners. Other original thing, the monicker of the band, which is undoubtedly referred to the painter Gustav Klimt, dead in 1918.
All this isn't very exciting, so let's talk about the musical aspect. And here there is no doubt that the advantage is quite different: as in Anathema, at the basis of Klimt 1918, born from the ashed of Another Day, progressive death metal act, there are two brothers, Marco and Paolo Soellner. The band's influences are mostly referred to soft progressive metal flirting with new-wave. In such a mood, "Undressed Momento" smells of melodic metal mixed with the pop of Porcupine Tree. The main metal vibe coming out from this record is undoubtedly the sound of Novembre and it's not a chance if the orchestrations are signed by Massimiliano Pagliuso and if Giuseppe Orlando has improved the backing vocals of "We don't need no music", and they're both members of Novembre, of course. Songs are lovely, arrangements are fabulous and far from seeming heavy technical demonstrations, "Undressed Momento" goes on pleasantly and in clever way, without never leaving room to boredom.
Even vocally, these Italians are astonishing, because Marco's pitch cannot recall but that of Sting, who gives a dimension even more original to the work of Klimt 1918. Some effects on the voice here and there, a strong Italian accent and here is the mark of the band.
An album rich of emotions and quite surprising to deserve a careful listening, especially for the fans of Anathema, Novembre, Lacuna Coil and bands like Flowing Tears.