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Oct 22, 2024 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Stefano D'Angelo

Italian indie singer/songwriter Guinevere debuted last year with her first EP, Running In Circles. She first got her start in theatre and performance art before branching out into analog photography, sculpture, and painting. She has described her music as a convergence of these modes, blending together a wide swath of artistic influences with strains of folk rock, art pop, and classical music. Most recently, she returned last month with a new single, “Unravel,” and today she’s back with another track, “Generational Fear,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Generational Fear” operates at a decadent slow-burn, slowly rising from an intimate glimmer into a searing, impassioned blaze. Guinevere gives the track space to grow and shift, making full use of its negative space and captivating dynamics. The track opens with Guinevere’s vocals flickering amongst delicate keys and a sparse, recurrent synth note before the track fills out with crescendoing drums, a chorus of backing vocals, and rising guitar lines, eventually ascending into a massive guitar-laden climax. In turn, any hint of timidity or uncertainty in Guinevere’s vocals hardens as the track moves into a strident call and response: “We were born free / Can you see, can you hear / A generational fear.”

Guinevere says of the track, “Generational Fear was born out of a moment of deep sorrow, from the danger of a disillusioned resignation to the inability to cope with life, and from the frustration of watching a generation of young people that’s ready to change the world but is oppressed by a system that restricts individual freedom and does not welcome sensitivity, change, and diversity.

Generational Fear is a portrait of a generation that, although traumatized, shaken, and deeply in crisis, sends out a cry of hope and invites humanity to gather together. It is a collective chorus that wants to give back a voice to those whose voices have been taken away; it is an invitation to hold hands and believe, with strength and determination, in a new world. “

Check out the song early below.