21 Nov 2019

Onda Rock reviews Julie's Haircut's In the Silence Electric


They say:

A few weeks ago, talking on the phone with Luca Giovanardi, we were thinking about how important it could be to grow up in the restless and paranoid Emilia at the turn of the 80s and 90s, if you loved music and could play an instrument. On one side or the other, in a city or in a country among many (think of the incredible story of a place like Correggio, for example), the big ones used to come over there and if you positioned yourself under the stage you had things to learn. Emilia was the equivalent of a metropolis in this sense. Not that all this can explain the story and in some way the success of Julie's Haircut , but it can motivate its vocation - always very present - to get out of the provincial logic of the Italian scene.

In the meantime 25 round round years have passed since the foundation of the then university band based in Bologna, and the albums of the Emilian combo come out for the London giant Rocket Recordings. A sort of achievement of a status quo for Julie's but they are far from interrupting their musical explorations, which indeed go further and further. "In The Silence Electric" could be, but it will be the story to tell, the right conclusion of the "psychedelic decade" inaugurated just 10 years ago with...

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