Kriminals! is the second studio album by the punk rock band from Parma Shonan, released on October 15th on all the main streaming and download platforms. The new work was anticipated by the singles Rocky Roberts and Suburban Hayez, available in streaming and on YouTube, with official videos. The album, characterized by a powerful and explosive sound, comes out 2 years after the last single Fall From Grace. The songs talk about the difficulty of finding someone willing to listen seriously, how we are often left alone, abandoned and sabotaged, and the difficulty of being able to trust people, and how this affects relationships between people.
"We worked intensely on these songs for a couple of years, trying to come up with everything that could be useful. The pandemic canceled the first recordings initially set for April 2020, so at the first reopening we booked 7 days of studio in Milan; the mixer, the microphones, our instruments and the 4 streets next to the studio became our home, our bed and everything we saw for a week, together with our producers and some beer in the evening, after having played and recorded. Locking ourselves in the studio in that brief interlude of serenity from all the mess that was going on was our response to the first 3 months of the lockdown, and the best way to process all the questionable personal experiences we had lived in recent times " says Arcu, singer and guitarist.
Kriminals! is released on the label Rocketman Records and was entirely recorded and mixed in 6 days at the Real-Sound Studio in Milan, under the production of Ettore "Ette" Gilardoni. The album is distributed by Believe, and is also available on Digipak CD at the label's online store. The album cover and artwork were created with the art designer Miguel Velasquez, and show a skate park surrounded by a sinister and disturbing atmosphere, where red clouds move nervously between the high voltage pylons in the background. The artwork was created in collaboration with the art designer Miguel Velasquez.
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Rocky Roberts is a song about complicated relationships: those relationships full of contradictions, of positive and negative feelings; it's about conflicting emotions that cling to memories and moments once relationships end. It's about love and war, unlikely times, and how great it would be to just ask and know how these things work. VIDEO: The main theme of the video is the alternation of lights and shadows: in the song, in its themes, in the Shonan themselves and in their music. The dark and sinister atmosphere leaves room for moments of light and clarity, to gradually create a fast alternation of these two moods, of the song and emotions.
lyrics
SHOULDERS TO THE WALL, I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH A KISS,
A SMILING FACE THAT I AM TRULY GONNA MISS
BECAUSE BABY I'VE BEEN UP UNTIL 4
WELL I KNOW THIS AIN'T NO LOVE, THIS IS A WAR
AND I KNOW, A THOUSAND FIGHTS AGO
WHY THINGS HAVE TO BE SO?
IF MY LIFE HAD A GREEN NUMBER, I'D CALL IT
MONDAY I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE LEAVING,
SUNDAY MORNING BREATHING THROUGH YOUR DRESS
TELL ME THE MEANING OF MY DREAMING
LYING WITH A WEIGHT STILL ON MY CHEST
I WANT
THEY SAY GIRLS ALWAYS INVOLVE A LITTLE RISK
BEWARE OF WHAT YOU GOT AND WHAT YOU NEED
BECAUSE MAYBE IT WILL BE GONE BEFORE YOU AWAKE
I DON'T GIVE A DAMN, DAYDREAMIN' ANYWAY
AND I KNOW...
MONDAY I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE LEAVING,
SUNDAY MORNING BREATHING THROUGH YOUR DRESS
TELL ME THE MEANING OF MY DREAMING
LYING WITH A WEIGHT STILL ON MY CHEST
I WANT
SO FAR, LET ME GO, WHERE'S THE LINE BETWEEN US ALL? WHERE'S MY HEART? I'D GIVE MY LEFT SIDE FOR YOU_
MONDAY I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE LEAVING,
SUNDAY MORNING BREATHING THROUGH YOUR DRESS
THE RECORD'S SPINNING BACKWARDS, SOMEHOW I'M GONNA BE THERE
LYING WITH A WEIGHT STILL ON MY CHEST
I WANT YOU BAD,
I WANT YOU BACK.
credits
from Kriminals!,
released October 15, 2021
Music & Lyrics by Shonan
Produced by Shonan and Ettore Ette Gilardoni @ Real Sound Studio in Milan, Italy
Published by Rocketman Records
Shonan were born in Parma, in February 2011.
In a short time they write enough
music to get
out
of that room and start playing concerts. The sound is a clash
between punk and hard rock.
After the release of Farewells & Pillows, the trio undertakes a long series of concerts throughout Italy, and concentrates on writing the
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