Novanta - 'Volta'
Milan-based band Novanta provide the ideal euphoric experience with new single ‘Volta’ - taken from their album ‘Punk For Introverts’, which is out now.
Ideal for staring at the ceiling and losing yourself to the senses - Novanta combine shoe gaze and dream pop to perfection.
Initially started as the solo instrumental project by guitarist Manfredi Lamartina, over the years Novanta have become a collective involving musicians from both the Italian and international independent scene.
Lead single “Volta” is a shoegaze gem, written together with one of the guests of the LP: Italian-Canadian duo etti/etta.
Speaking about the single, Manfredi Lamartina said: "Volta's first instrumental version came out during the 2020 lockdown and was inevitably affected by that armored and dead-end everyday life: it was a vortex of continuous distortions that dug between stubborn and frightening frequencies from start to the end. It was very dark and deafening stuff, something we couldn't bring ourselves to complete. For trying to give a twist to the song, a year later we shared it with a very mysterious Italian-Canadian duo called etti/etta. Those who follow the scene know what they are capable of: theirs is a futuristic and nocturnal shoegaze, something unique in their genre. With Raffaella's voice and Marcus' synth we turned the song upside down, from claustrophobic to boundless, dreamlike, dizzying. It's a dream pop crescendo in 5/4 in which there is everything we love: the wrong tunings, the badly set pedals, the amplifiers close to collapse. Because we, to quote Adorable, are against perfection."
