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The Italian band Klimt 1918 was founded in 1999 and after only one demo the band
has now released their first full-length album, which they have given the title
"Undressed Momento". Today the band consists of four musicians, Marco Soellner (guitar
and vocals), Alessandro Pace (guitar), Davide Pesola (bass) and Paolo Soellner (drums).
The music the band performs on this album isn't the easiest to describe, but the
two keywords that immediately floats up in my mind are the words emotional and
atmospheric. The band itself mentions influences that reach from Opeth to The Smiths, and that doesn't really help in classifying their music. The strongest
parallels can however be found in bands like Anathema and Katatonia.
The music is mostly quite slow and harmonic, even though there are some faster
parts too, especially in the last song "Stalingrad Theme". Musically there isn't
really anything to complain about, the band members handle their instruments
well and Marco has a really beautiful and melancholic voice. The result is a
well-played album that is both easy to listen to and full of feelings.
My personal favourite song on the album is the forth one, "We don't need no
music", which is a song where we also get to hear Marco sing in Italian, and
that is something that sounds really good in my ears. Other really good songs
are the third song "Parade Of Adolescence", the eighth song "If only you could
see me now" and the above mentioned "Stalingrad Theme”.
Together with bands like Greyswan and Roow with a View, Klimt 1918 shows that
Italy is building up a really impressive collection of bands in this melancholic
genre. Some small fixes here and there and we will have a really great album
look forward to from this band in the future. "Undressed Momento" is however a
really impressive debut and have no other choice but to recommend this.
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