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Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor
2025
Release Date: 2025
By Walden Green
Reviewed March 10, 2025
Reuniting on a double-billed album, the Danish musicians draw on 20 years’ worth of indie dance textures for a sound that’s summery yet distant.
Lust for Youth were never quite as frigid as they seemed. Even on 2012’s Growing Seeds, the minimalist, abrasive solo debut of Swedish producer Hannes Norrvide, a song like “Champagne” yearned to pop a cork and hit the dancefloor. And by the time the coldwave revival began to thaw, Norrvide’s project had expanded twice—first into a duo with Malthe Fischer, then a trio, bringing in Posh Isolation label co-founder Loke Rahbek—and begun to dip its toes into the warmer waters of beach disco and balearic pop. , the group’s new full-length collaboration with Rahbek’s Croatian Amor moniker, finally commits to a decade-plus’ worth of flirtations: This is a summer record through and through, engineered for windows-down car rides along the coast, beachside cabana bars, and Ibiza discothèques. As soundtrack, mood music, vibe, flourishes; under closer inspection, it can resemble a lesser sum of its references. Tantalizing but not always satisfying, the album summons a series of itches that the songs can’t quite scratch.