But when the time comes
I’ll hold my strings
Until my fingers bleed
Vikowski arrives like a band stepping into their own reflection and finally liking what they see. Their home city of Milan suits them: restless streets, interior weather, a sense of languid movement. What began years ago as Vincenzo Coppeta’s solitary outlet has matured into a shared language with Lorenzo Pisanello and Alessandro Panzeri, a trio learning to listen more closely to one another. You can hear that trust everywhere.
Transparency, from their latest album Consistency, circles around one central idea: staying. Staying with work that weighs on you. Staying with people who complicate you. Staying with yourself when the easier option would be escape. Lyrically, the song turns professionalism into a fault line. There’s appreciation for opportunity, spoken plainly, without irony. At the same time, you can feel the cost of compliance, the slow tightening of patience…holding on is an act of control. The song understands how ambition can stabilize and strain in the same breath, how commitment can feel both grounding and bruising. This song carries the tension of adulthood: the bargain between security and selfhood, gratitude and grit, routine and resistance
The electric guitar takes the lead role, less as decoration than as a compass. It moves with intent, sometimes sharp, sometimes restrained, always guiding the emotional direction. Bass lines are economical and sure-footed, anchoring everything to the ground. The rhythm section keeps the pulse clean and direct, giving the song room to breathe without losing momentum. Nothing feels wasted; every element knows its place.
The black and white DIY video for Transparency extends this emotional logic with restraint and precision. It mirrors the song’s interior tension, favoring mood and gesture over explanation. The visual language stays focused and uncluttered, allowing small movements and expressions to carry weight. There’s a sense of containment throughout, as if the frame itself is part of the pressure. Nothing overreaches. The result feels cohesive, purposeful, and quietly unsettling in the best way.
Watch Transparency below:
Over time, Vikowski’s evolution has been steady and deliberate: from early synth-pop textures to more songwriter-focused terrain, and now into something fuller and more assured. Consistency marks a turning point not because it breaks with the past, but because it understands it. This is a band choosing commitment as an aesthetic, persistence as a philosophy. In doing so, Vikowski sounds settled without sounding still, resolved without sounding rigid – a rare balance, and one worth leaning into.
Consistency is out now via Icy Cold Records. You can listen to it below and order the album here.
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