Photo by Kristopher Kirk

One week away from today, Nuovo Testamento will be taking to Los Angeles Exposition Park and turning the dust ups of the festival pit into their own beaming dance floor when the Los Angeles synth-pop trio of vocalist Chelsey Crowley, drummer Giacomo Zatti, and synthesist Andrea Mantione take the stage at this year’s Sound and Fury. This shouldn’t be a difficult fete for them to succeed at. Being outliers as reformed hardcore artists already going against the expected is something that comes naturally to them, especially on “Dream On”, the latest preview from their forthcoming EP, Trouble.

Described by the band as a song about “being told to become a simpler version of yourself, even after you thought you had found your place in the world,” Nuovo Testamento’s pulse-perfect appropriation of ’80s and ’90s dance-pop, Italo disco, and Hi-NRG energy remains a flawless constant here. It assists in their persistence to remain authentic to the self just as well. “What does it mean if I’m like everybody else? / I have to save myself / Like everybody else,” sings Crowley. Dream big or go home, they said. They haven’t found the latter yet, so they just keep turning the lights on brighter.

Directed by: Alfredo Lopez

Nuovo Testamento’s Trouble will be released July 25th on Discoteca Italia.