Scarlet Deange he published Extra darkthe new album distributed by ADA Music (Warner) and published by Orange Records. Eight songs in which the singer-songwriter, at the registry office Carla De Angeliscarries out a sound research that combines R&B, soul and pop sung in Italian, with references to the sounds of the Seventies reinterpreted in a current key.
The album deals with personal themes but also reflections on the present, alternating stories of relationships, moments of fragility and questions about one's place in the world.
Scarlet Deange presents the album Extra dark
With Extra dark, Scarlet Deange collects an artistic path built around direct writing and a musical imprint that looks to R&B and soul without giving up the Italian language.
The artist describes the project like this:
“This album was born from the desire to tell myself with sincerity, without filters, transforming what I have experienced into music that can also reach others. It is a journey between R&B, Soul and Pop that crosses intimacy, relationships, the questions that accompany us and the strength that we discover precisely in the most fragile moments. It is a look at me, but also at what surrounds us: the changing world, distances, the search for meaning, for faith, for presence.”
The album alternates personal reflections and observations on contemporary reality, maintaining a simple language and concrete images.
The tracklist of Extra dark
- Dust
- Under the skin
- Distant shadows
- You never had me
- Pills
- It's not my era
- Where are you God
- Fire inside
The themes addressed in the songs
The opening is entrusted to Dustwhich immediately introduces one of the main threads of the album: “Dust we are not heroes / Dust, dust above the sea / where do you go if there is no place to stay”
They follow Under the skin And Distant shadows, “The silence shouted louder than the echo of all the blows”And You never had mededicated to the end of a relationship marked by misunderstandings: “You never had me / you didn't love me / It was just a bad script already written / me running away and you laughing”.
In Pills the theme shifts to the relationship with addiction and the search for balance: “They hold me up but they make me fall / They promise the sky / They leave me at sea.”
In It's not my era instead, he looks at the present with nostalgia for a different way of experiencing music and relationships. “I'm looking for a vinyl with a real sound / My head is in another dimension / Where the rhythm comes from an emotion” and continues “I dream of handwritten letters / My heart is in an old photograph”.
Ideally closes the journey with Where are you Goda reflection on doubt and the search for answers: “Where are you God / I can never find you / The darkness that eats my dreams” And Fire inside.
With its eight songs, Extra dark proposes a writing that alternates autobiographical episodes and observations on the present, maintaining at the center a musical identity that combines soul and R&B influences with a pop sensitivity.
The cover image of the article is taken from the artist's Instagram page.
