a provocative album but full of ideas

Marracash, PEACE IS OVER: guide to listening to the songs from the new album.

On Friday 13 December he returned as a surprise Marracashone of the most anticipated artists on the Italian scene, with his highly anticipated new album PEACE IS OVER (Island Records / Universal Music Italia), the seventh in the studio. Released without featuring, without announcements and straight to the point, this final act of the trilogy changes the rules of the game again.

The album arrives three years after the last multi-platinum project WE, THEY, THE OTHERS which, together with the first chapter PERSON and with the final one PEACE IS OVERclose this journey started by Marracash five years ago.

On the title of the album, Marracash underlines: «AND OVER PEACE he wants to arrive at a showdown in which the knots come home to roost. It is my most personal album, made alone, without authors or external interference. On the social issue, it is clear to everyone that we are in a delicate moment in history, there is a perceptible malaise, even more so among young people. From here, we get to the title”

And he explains in detail: «I was secluded for a while, because I had burnout after Marrageddon: I didn't know what to do after working for years. The title of the album has a triple dichotomy: peace is over for me, that is, the peace with which I conceived the album, for others because it wants to be a manifesto and a gauntlet, and peace in the world is over, not in literal sense, but because the world is going to a powder keg because there are some facts that worry everyone a little”

The album revolves around the discourse and the image of the bubble, in a journey that takes us outside from inside it: «The bubble is a symbol, the record is a bubble in which my intent was that there were 50 minutes different from the music we listen to today, and it is different from the marketing logic – zero – of a market which today is the copy of himself.”

What has changed compared to the previous two albums in the trilogy? «There were two records before (Person And Us, Them, The Othersed.) which were so successful and reassured me.”

And he poses a reflective criticism on today's music, and then answers the question posed above: «Compared to the mainstream and the catchphrases, there is a third way and I want to follow it, be an alternative. The mainstream is so big that niche music has little impact on reality. What has changed is that there is a receptive audience that wants something else and wants to make it reach very high levels.”

The break between the second album of the trilogy and PEACE IS OVER was less than before STATUS. Despite three albums in five years, Marracash he underlines that even though it was shorter, it helped him to have clearer ideas and move away from personal problems: «Stepping aside allows me to regain that freshness of a debut and to do what I want. In this way I manage not to be conditioned and to just follow the inspiration.”

Marracash he concludes with two very interesting sentences, also very linked to the entire path that led him to today – Friday 13 December – to release a record from nothing, without promo and without any secondary thoughts: «I don't care more about people liking me than I do. Giving money for a product doesn't buy you another life.”