Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor
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Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, release 'All Worlds (Deluxe)' ft two new tracks "Someone" and "Parasol" out today on Sacred Bones.
Ahead of Paris & London shows next week, today Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor share an expanded deluxe edition of last year's album 'All Worlds'.
The new edition returns to the original recording sessions with two previously unreleased tracks, “Someone” and “Parasol”, extending the album’s central themes of connection, uncertainty and devotion.
“Someone,” featuring Kate Durman (Purient), deepens the album’s emotional core through a longing, synth pop framework steeped in dreamy atmospheres and reverb washed textures.
Ethereal and gently nostalgic, the track is full of warmth and devotion with Durman’s vocal tracing the fragile space between longing and self-compromise - “I could be someone who could live that lie”- while ultimately leaning toward love -“I adore you.”
First recorded during the All Worlds sessions, the collaboration grew from a chance meeting in Melbourne, where Purient opened for Lust For Youth, and later took shape remotely when she was invited to respond to two instrumentals from the album, first with “Dummy” and now with “Someone.”
“Parasol” offers a counterbalance: a drifting, sun-dazed instrumental built around a Vini Reilly–inspired guitar motif, shaped by dictaphone textures, radio interference and a vocal sample of Loke Rahbek’s son singing. It functions as an interlude between worlds - reflective and suspended.
Rather than bonus material, these tracks feel like additional fragments from the same constellation, completing the picture of 'All Worlds' as a hopeful, generous constellation of inner landscapes reaching outward, waiting to be received.
In June 2023, Copenhagen's Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor shared the stage at the iconic Sydney Opera House during the Vivid Live Festival. This encounter reignited their creative partnership, laying the foundation for ‘All Worlds’.
Loke Rahbek, who used to be a member of Lust For Youth, left the group to focus on his solo project Croatian Amor and the Posh Isolation record label. His departure coincided with the release of Lust For Youth’s self-titled album in 2019.
With ‘All Worlds’, Rahbek’s collaboration with Lust For Youth marks a poignant reunion for the band’s core creative forces, where the differing sonic palettes of the Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor projects meet again in the form of a full-length album.
Drawing inspiration from the Golden Record sent into space as humanity's message to the unknown, 'All Worlds' mirrors this longing for connection and understanding. Each track captures a fragment of emotion, culture, or memory, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the human experience.
Through a sonic journey of isolation, resilience, and wonder, introspective lyrics intertwine with lush, evocative soundscapes. Retaining the dreamy atmospheres characteristic of both Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor, the album’s reverb-drenched production lends it an ethereal, nostalgic quality. While themes of melancholy and longing are central, energetic beats and uplifting arrangements introduce a bittersweet harmony that oscillates between vulnerability and euphoria.
Celebrating twelve years since their 2013 ambient-industrial album ‘Pomegranate’, ‘All Worlds’ reflects the evolution of Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor. This album serves as both a response to their earlier work and a progression informed by a decade of growth and change. It deepens their exploration of sound and meaning, speaking directly to the present moment.
Picture by Alexander Rotondo
Lust For Youth + Croatian Amor Live dates
Feb 26th – Paris, Badaboum
Feb 27th – London, Moth Club
Stream/buy 'All Worlds (Deluxe)' here
