Julia Bardo - Bauhaus, L'Appartamento (2021) [Hi-Res]

Debut album from manchester-via-italy singer, songwriter and guitarist Julia Bardo. Produced and mixed by younghusband's euan hinshelwood, the record firmly establishes bardo's musical adventurousness and prowess, and marks a cathartic and self-affirming moment for an artist who found her voice by realizing it's been there all along. The album is best summed up by the Woman who wrote it all: "Bauhaus, l'appartamento is about loneliness, solitude, separation...But also unconditional love," Bardo reveals of the record's overarching themes. "Family, emotional dependency, mental health issues, feelings of emptiness and numbness, feelings of not being enough, inability to be in control of my own emotions, self-doubt, self-reflection, past traumas and dealing with them." named after the apartment complex she lived in when demoing the album's recordings, but with an Italian twist.