Bauhaus, L’Appartamento (Red Vinyl)
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Bauhaus, L’Appartamento is the debut album from Manchester-via-Italy singer, songwriter and guitarist Julia Bardo. Named after the apartment complex she lived in when demoing the album’s recordings, but with an Italian twist, her musical journey began in Brescia in Northern Italy, where she sang and wrote lyrics for a local band between shifts at her father’s bar. She relocated to Manchester and it was here she developed her striking style as a solo musician before also meeting and joining post-punk band Working Men’s Club.
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.”
Bauhaus, L’Appartamento follows the release of two EPs, Phase and The Raw EP, which saw Bardo experiment further with her wistful and mysterious sound to become the alternative pop artist she is today.
