AP Track Review:
The dreamy Endless Blue by Prettything, the NOT side project from Melbourne's Bella Venutti (IV League) starts out with blended ambient sounds, water or waves falling over a drum beat that sounds distant like a Polaroid. It adds a surreal dimension from the onset so when Venutti's vocal lilt with pretty guitar and droning synths come in the dreaminess feels more lofty and art house cinematic. When the bass embraces it all and the chorus flows around you with Venutti's kind of finger snap cadence and bounce I feel a cool 60's chamber (girl band) tone happening. It now feels transportively cool, old and new and maybe even futuristic. Wow.
I am happy this is not a side project. Give me more, please.
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Introducing prettything, the exciting, brand new solo project from Bella Venutti, a voice and a face out of Melbourne you'll recognise from indie-darlings IV League. Don't call it a 'side project' - you'll soon hear when you click play on debut single 'Endless Blue' that this, quite simply is a very different sonic outing from and an additional outlet of expression from a creative mind who simply cannot stop expressing
Explains Venutti: "I'm an obsessive fan as much as I am a creator and I try to put a lot of love and thought into everything I make."
'Endless Blue' was always going to be the first release for prettything and, for it, award-winning producer Dean Tuza (Stella Donnelly, A. Swayze & The Ghosts, The Rubens) quickly became the co-experimenter of choice. The two dabbled with sounds, samples, synths, drum loops, tempos and arrangements to reach the sonic sanctuary Venutti felt was her most honest and enjoyable.
“It’s the first song I wrote and demoed for the project and once I shared it with a few close friends, I could start to see a little prettything world starting to unfold inside my head. There’s a softness to the sound that I’ve had in me for a while and haven’t explored in a music project properly before - I feel like I’m sometimes seen solely as the rock performer and I’m excited to challenge that and really lean into this direction as much as possible."
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