There is enough room in our world for dreams. Most of us are roused in the morning by our obligations, we face our duties, and then we rest at the end of the day so that we may rise again for the next. The day is spent in toil. Sleep is functional. The ephemeral burns up in the daylight and only vapors remain after dusk. Where is it that our dreams can find sanctuary? International pop and dance trio Nuovo Testamento believes that the answer lies somewhere tangled in the laces and traipsing on the toes of "Lo Stivale," the Italian Peninsula. While influenced equally by '80s darkwave, Soviet-era synth explorations, and the long, living lineage of Italian Disco, the group favors the immediacy and pinning preoccupations present in the latter on their latest LP, Love Lines. Here there is no cage to pen the flights of one's fancy and no fetters with which to smother the glowing furnace of the heart. Tracks like "Heartbeat" honor the drive of desire and feeling of freedom that dancing feet can find when giving themselves over to the persuasion of another's movement and rhythm, individual fountains of undying metronomic metabolism syncing with a wave of freed momentum to beat as one. "Heat" sees the band pleading with you to transfer to them your volcanic passion, a feeling which gripping, polyrhythmic synth cascades and the implore of singer Chelsey Crowley lingering and beseeching call will playfully and seductively draw from you, like untying the knot of a necktie from around your throat with teeth and lipstick traces. Finally, the title track contains a pulsing bassline that feels like the echo of a real human heart, urgently thumping in the dark, yearning to be heard over the din of daily struggle and distraction, beating out a coded message that bleeds upwards via a latticework of surgically sharp synth patterns as mercury might rise to show the boiling point of some roiling substance, often cracking its confines and a releasing purifying and fragrant jets of exhaust produced by the increasing pressure and intensity the song's revolution and chorus. Love Lines traces a pulsing vein across a territory where dreams never sunset. The only question is, do you possess the courage to follow your heart where it desires to go?
