You get out of the cycle again
You get worn out before it begins
You get out alive it all starts again
Cure For Youth is a Los Angeles outfit whose post-punk carries the bodily intelligence of hardcore. Scott Savarie’s bass and Nicolas Sturz’s drums push against time, giving the song the clipped momentum of a crowd beginning to move. Connor McKenna’s guitar widens the frame with chorus and delay, while Catarina Teles’s synthesizer hangs over the arrangement like fluorescent weather. The track is spacious without becoming vague, melodic without relaxing its grip.
Savarie’s vocal performance gives that disorder a center. He sings with the cool restraint associated with early-eighties post-punk, but the reserve is less theatrical than protective. The song’s lineage — Joy Division’s severity, Ceremony’s sharpened velocity, the rougher romanticism of The Men — is audible, though Cure For Youth avoids the deadening effect of impeccable reference. Their sound is persuasive because it seems lived in: phrasing learned in small rooms, atmosphere added later, once the band knew exactly how much space it could afford.
In the video for New Rose Bloom, the first single from Cure For Youth’s début album, Synthetic World, Los Angeles appears as a nervous system. Sidewalks, storefronts, passing cars, domestic fragments, and protest footage arrive in quick, uneven pulses, as though someone were trying to reconstruct a week from the images left behind on a phone. The result is not quite a collage and not quite a documentary. It is memory after it has been exposed to the news. The editing is brisk but not frantic, and its repetitions—traffic, windows, bodies passing through the frame—create the impression of a city rehearsing the same day under changing pressure. Even the protest images avoid grandiosity; they enter as part of the weather, urgent precisely because they are ordinary.
The video’s most effective gesture is its refusal to separate private life from public emergency. A face glimpsed in transit, a room at dusk, a street corner, a demonstration: each image is granted roughly the same emotional weight. This can feel, at first, like indiscriminate accumulation. But the hodgepodge gradually reveals its argument. Contemporary attention does not organize experience into neat hierarchies. Grief, desire, boredom, and political anger occupy adjacent tabs; the self is asked to absorb them all without losing the thread.
Watch New Rose Bloom below:
Recorded and mixed by Alex Jacobelli at Sunsick Studios and mastered by Andrew Oswald, Synthetic World promises twelve songs in thirty-five minutes. The video suggests the governing principle: no escape from the present, only a way of moving through its images without becoming numb.
Listen to New Rose Bloom below and order Synthetic World here.
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