Italy’s Amalia Bloom Share New Single “Sleeping Beauty”

Sleeping Beauty is the new single signed by the Italian emo fuelled hardcore outfit Amalia Bloom, the track is a waltz of distortions that transforms a delicate dedication of love into a declaration of frustration for a relationship that consumes its counterparts from inside. The title is inspired by the famous French folk tale yet, surprisingly, sleeping beauty is not a person but a city, a place that sleeps, beautiful but crystallised in its own slumber. The conflictual relationship narrated in the song is therefore that of a twenty-year-old against his hometown, a visceral and affectionate bond that is common for many young italians, like the band, in which people are led to suffer for the opportunities that their city does not grant them or that ends up wasting.

The song starts with a rhythmic triplet and an enthralling trend on which rests a clean and delicate voice, that swells and darkens as the song progresses until it roars into a resounding growl. The guitars are immediately intertwined between extremes of consonance and dissonance, conveying the contradiction in a bittersweet sensation in which the bitterness of disappointment dominates. In some ways the song could be linked to the previous single, Whimsical, another outlet whose goal is recognisable in stasis and fear of change. Both singles anticipate the band’s second studio full length, Picturesque, that is due out on May 13th and is inspired by their daily lives and places of origin.

You can awaken Sleeping Beauty here