New Music: Kill Your Boyfriend – Discretion

Discretion sees Italy’s Kill Your Boyfriend pump up the volume – and the emotional intensity – on this EBM-meets-electropunk banger.

There’s a deliberate feeling of claustrophobia around Discretion, as it hit the ground hard, a punky energy expressed through harshly filtered electronics. The vocals feel born of desperation and anger, as if the narrator is cornered by lies, but insists on telling the truth to power, regardless of the personal cost.

I was immediately struck by how Discretion harnesses dark energies in the vein of Atari Teenage Riot, but also Front 242’s driving melodies and the post-guitar dancefloor grooves of New Order. Discretion doesn’t want you to lose self-control, but your chains.

“The song explores how the absence of truth can cause the downfall of a power structure that should be devoid of secrets,” says the band. “The sound captures the sense of a suffocating atmosphere through a series of echoes and reverberations.”

Discretion is from the Treviso, Italy based outfit’s Disco Kills EP, which is released on the 9th of May via Sister 9 Recordings. It’s part of a split EP with Manchester’s Neu Oscuro and can be found in digital and vinyl formats on Bandcamp.