★★★★★
Lust For Youth go for the synth pop jugular on their third album, International. Back when it was Hannes Norrvide's solo project, LFY released a series of noisey, Casio-driven post-punk, with vocals that sounded like a Cro Magnon rebirth of Ian Curtis. Since then, Norrvide's loosened his grip, inviting Loke Rahbek (of Vår) and Malthe Fischer to join...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-07-16
★★★★★
Lust For Youth go for the synth pop jugular on their third album, International. Back when it was Hannes Norrvide's solo project, LFY released a series of noisey, Casio-driven post-punk, with vocals that sounded like a Cro Magnon rebirth of Ian Curtis. Since then, Norrvide's loosened his grip, inviting Loke Rahbek (of Vår) and Malthe Fischer to join...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-07-16
★★★★★
International, the newest album of the Swedish synth-pop group Lust for Youth, has been a complete turn around in the musical direction for the band. Lust for Youth, the sobriquet for the previously solo act of Hannes Norrvide, has become a three-piece machine (with Loke Rahbek and Malthe Fisher) for the latest record. The album's light, polished, ambient synth sound is a drastic change from the band's prior albums -- which have had an underlying darkness and lowest low-fi sound...
- www.ink19.com
2014-07-15
★★★★★
As Lust for Youth, Hannes Norrvide cranked out three albums in two years, and his artistic growth was just as swift and prolific. His biggest step forward comes with International, an album that finds him moving into new territory and excelling at it. Now a trio thanks to the addition of producer Malthe Fischer as well as longtime collaborator Loke Rahbek, it's fitting that this is Lust for Youth's most expansive-sounding set of songs yet...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-06-14
★★★★★
You can feel the warmth as soon as the opening bars of "Epoetin Alfa", the first song on the fourth album from Lust For Youth, chime in. While "sunny" would be pushing it, International does mark the continuing emergence from the darkness for Hannes Norrvide as he transforms his band from dark and metallic electro to something approaching classic synth-pop...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-06-11
★★★★★
It's healthy sometimes to find a layer of abstraction between yourself and whatever you take for granted. On their fourth full-length LP, International, Scandinavian trio Lust for Youth do the work of building that membrane. International is a move away from the lo-fi, cold wave post-punk of the group's first three outings toward a brightly colored new wave. Neon synths and honest-to-God guitar riffs adorn the record in place of rusty scrapes and tape hiss...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-06-11
★★★★★
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Lust For Youth have endured a torrid evolution since 2012. Their first long player Growing Seeds was a twisted mess of plodding post-club indie house, topped by the atonal, baggy ravings of main man Hannes Norrvide. 2013's Perfect View demonstrated a progression of sorts, widening the scope to include beats you could actually distinguish and a selection of keyboard sounds other than the drilling Casio that seems to fascinate their...
- www.thefourohfive.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
Lust For Youth - 'International'
The Swedish trio swap noise assaults for uplifting synthpop
8 / 10
Hannes Norrvide founded Lust For Youth as an ear-blitzing noise project in his native Sweden, but since moving to Copenhagen in 2010, where he fell in with the crowd around Iceage and the Posh Isolation label, his music has changed beyond recognition...
- www.nme.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
Minds typically go to dark, severe places when describing Lust for Youth: the blackest winters of Hannes Norrvide's native Sweden, mental and physical prisons, Joy Division songs. So when a Lust for Youth song is built on Norrvide singing "this time he crossed the line" with typical, Teutonic austerity, you figure it's not going to end well for whoever he's talking about...
- pitchfork.com
2014-06-09
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