Lust for Youth – International [Deluxe Edition] (2014)

Hannes Norrvide’s work as Lust for Youth has always been firmly situated on the darker end of the lo-fi goth spectrum – see 2012′s modest breakthough Growing Seeds, and its grouchy 2013 follow-up, Perfect View. On June 10th, Sacred Bones will put out the new Lust for Youth album, International.
The new album sees Lust for Youth trading as a three-piece, with regular collaborator Loke Rahbek and Malthe Fisher joining the outfit in earnest.
The darker-than-thou aesthetic has also been junked in favour of straightforward, airy electro-pop, with Pet Shop Boys and New Order being touted as influences.
According to Rahbek, “the record deals with the rootless, sometimes almost inhuman, nature of traveling and touring. Hotel rooms and strangers’ beds, drugs and clubs, and the impossibility of living a regular life.”