Review by Mavericks Of Francesca Michielin edited by Simone Caprioli.
Conservatory degree in jazz singing, orchestra conducting for It’s like that every time Of Emma to the Sanremo Music Festival 2022a novel (“The heart is an organ“), a successful podcast (“Tomboys“), the management of X Factor 2022: in no particular order, these are just some of the goals achieved by one Wonder Francesca Michielin over the last three years, those that have separated us from the publication of his latest record work Feat – State of Nature to this new album.
There Michielin opens his 2023 with a bang, or an album titled Mavericksout of last February 24 for RCA Records/Sony Music Italya project that sees her personally taking care of every detail, from production to the artwork, and which inevitably marks a watershed in her production.
Francesca michielin mavericks review
Mavericks is an album full of images that refer to nature in all its forms and to a more sustainable human dimension: the river, the willows, a wood, the sàlgari and the scent of Verbena intertwine in a vivid narration of the places where the project was conceived and developed.
Frances Michielin appears mature, aware and honest as never before; she is no longer the young promise of Italian pop for women, but the splendid reality of a songwriter increasingly lacking in reference characters.
The album opens with the intro by Carmena real declaration of love and intent (“I don’t want to please you, I want to inflict my verses on you“), from the text that leaves no room for interpretation and immediately refers to the Muse who inspired this piece, born from an exchange of letters between Frances And Carmen Consulsamong the first (and very rare) “mavericks” of Italian music.
A woodthe song that anticipated the project on a promotional level, draws without hiding from melodic atmospheres and references borrowed from that early millennium pop imaginary so dear to the Michielinwhich recounts the difficulties of the “feel a place home” in the eternal conflict between metropolis and province. The same dualism comes back overbearing even in the delicacy of Small townpiece written for four hands with Vasco Brondi and which, without filters, tells the decision of Frances to return to live in her Bassano del Grappa, the natural dimension of those who, like her, were “born in a river”.
Mavericks ranges naturally from the soft and disenchanted atmospheres of What is not there yet (reminiscent of the Frances intense of 2640without any superstructure), to the almost metal look that characterizes the intro of Big big eyesa story in vivid colors of the discomfort of incommunicability: “I know you used to look at me too but you never told me what’s your name?”
He then moves on with extraordinary nonchalance to a passage on cultural contamination, and more generally on the sense of inclusiveness that struggles to make room for itself in our daily lives (Perfect ghetto).
Padua can kill you more than Milanpower ballad among the most successful episodes of the entire album, deals with the theme of city livability sometimes afflicted by a hypocritical provincialism: “Why do you say that we are all the same, if you then vote for racists in city councils?” A “cross” that can suffocate, yes, but that does not discourage: “I resist, and I stay here”.
Francesca Michielin signs his most authentic and interesting record, reflective and angry at the same time: audacious enough to ignore the trends of the moment without fear of playing “slow”, but on the contrary being powerful for the courage to tell something different and singular in a time of “addiction” and redundancy, which has managed to give us those intelligent ideas that are only of those who still have something to say through music.
TOP SONGS: Padua can kill you more than Milan – A Wood – Big big eyes
VOTE: 8 out of 10
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Francesca Michielin Loose Dogs tracklist
Here are the titles of the songs that will be included in the new album:
- big big eyes
- a wood
- Padua can kill you more than Milan
- perfect ghetto
- what is not there yet
- small town
- bonsoir
- verbena
- Carmen
- I’m not your loneliness
- claudia
- d. point
