Lupo Cittá - Inverno LP [12XU]

Lupo Città is Sarah Black (guitar, bass), Chris Brokaw (guitar + vocals) and Jenn Gori (drums + vocals). 

The title track for Lupo Città’s second LP, INVERNO (‘winter’ in Italian), was born in January 2023. Written in waking sleep at 4 am. Looking out the window at the winter world below when it's too quiet, no one is around, but anything and everything feels possible. Lupo Città wrote the songs for INVERNO by instinct: each song, in viscera, a life and personality of its own. Chris, Jenn, and Sarah each brought in songs at different stages, in different forms and moods. Some came together fast, others took long. Some songs had to be stripped, slowed down or sped up, while others were completely gutted and rebuilt. A hard coming out of post-COVID lockdown, trying to relearn to live outside of isolation. Moving from the dark of winter into light, a jarring shift, the world was changing so fast in such stark contrast between the quiet isolation we settled into with close friends and family. We couldn’t look away anymore, in the light of day, escalating political and social chaos happening outside, now rapidly closing in.



While Lupo Città’s debut was melodic, energetic, world-weary, sometimes chaotic, INVERNO is out on a limb, taking a risk, and not caring at all how it turns out. INVERNO is a snapshot of the bad and good, trying to stay awake and be present, fighting off the sleep of winter and the lure of time standing still, so we can create...  more