Few things are as magnetically self-assured as a band with the intentionality to sound more like themselves with every successive release. In their new single Take Me To The Moon, Italian four-piece All You Can Hate doubles down on the raw-yet-refined vision that characterized their 2025 EP, Nothing Lasts Forever. Fans of Nocturne-era Wild Nothing will find themselves right at home in this undeniably catchy track.
Right from the opening riff, Take Me To The Moon typifies the eminently danceable beach sleaze sensibilities that defined late-aughts indie pop (à la Wild Nothing, Real Estate, Girls, Best Coast). Veterans of famed Roman stages such as Largo Venue, Trenta Formiche, and Wishlist Club, All You Can Hate is a band that knows how to propel a crowd to its feet, and that penchant is on full display here. A deft mixture of shoegaze texture and mathy, Midwest guitar flourishes gives the instrumentation a dynamic feel, and the vocal style drips with post-punk ennui.
Rife with heady existential themes and sharp cosmic imagery, the lyrics give voice to the escapist fantasies many of us harbor in this eternally plugged-in social media era. “Take me to the moon, so that I can get out of my mind” is a relatable appeal for a vantage point from which our everyday anxieties can dissolve into a more tranquil, distant beauty.
Take Me To The Moon is an anthem for the overstimulated, and it maintains a compelling direction for All You Can Hate. Follow the band on Instagram, and listen to Take Me To The Moon below:
Written by John Bagatta
