Blanco In love review of the second album of the young singer-songwriter edited by Fabio River.
The musical style could make it the same as a thousand others. The almost totally sampled bases and the use of effects on the voice make him an artist who could easily be ascribed to the rapper/trapper genre; doing so, however, would be committing an unforgivable mistake.
Blanco it is much more than this, above all if you erase some excesses, some errors in the path and consider it only for what it offers.
That he knows how to sing, for example, has already proved it several times on the most prestigious stage in Italy but the most important thing is certainly to understand that he really has something to say, that he doesn’t tell stories of unhealthy suburbs to sound cool , all gangs, whores, brands to show off and easy money; tells of existential torments, of his growth as a person, of feelings that evolve and can sometimes hurt. He talks about himself, he talks about what he is.
He talks, he vents. It is almost like an analysis session where the king is naked and everyone can read what is written on the skin, beyond the many visible tattoos.
What is striking on several occasions in the artist’s writing is his dressing of the songs, always composed together with his trust Michelangelo, combining the deep link with the modernity of style, of language, often not at all polished but almost never out of place for the sense of the discourse, with a veil of melancholy that makes them harpoons for the walls of the heart; she makes them for everyone, not just her generation or the teen audience.
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The duet with mine, A bit of joya track designed to lead the way for the album, as well as the second single after the advance of the The Island of Rosescomes to demonstrate all this: singing behind the lady of our music, without disfiguring, renouncing, except for the start, the protection of the fashionable effect in the meeting of voices and telling a story to be written in pencil, after to have been wrinkled by life.
The incipit of the engraved melodically does a lot mine/Celenotano, to then slide towards a hypnotic pappapappa which is impossible not to remember. And it’s already hit.
Lead Tears is the new soul-teasing ballad on a light piano carpet that it is easy to assume will enter the hearts of those who have tears to dry behind the well-known glasses mentioned here, just as the title track is very romantic. In lovewhere instead we mainly switch to guitar and voice.
That Blanco you talk about yourself is also evident from the titled passage Giulia from the name of his ex-girlfriend and piece clearly dedicated to the end of the story, on which a lot of gossip attention was focused last year, right after the victory in San Remo.
The search for the safe tile, for the place to call home, is the basis of beauty My family.
Michelangelo explore sounds that widen the shot, going from the already experienced 80s, to the essentiality of bare and raw instruments where the message already has its own explanatory force that does not need anything else.
We then move on to some more common solutions in the 90s, such as the Jungle bent of Sun rays or syncopation Again Again Againto the point of even bringing out the mandolins, to counterbalance, in the concluding Go as it goeswhich has that end-of-holiday atmosphere, when you realize that what you are seeing on the beach with friends is one of the last sunsets of a summer that is about to say goodbye.
In love is a curated album, a photograph that captures the face of today Richardwhich only lets in some moments protect themselves from the effrontery of Blanco. It is a line of life for those who have learned to run beyond what they should but who are not afraid to say: wait a minute, I’ll stop, I want to show you the view, I want to show you me.
TOP SONGS: A shred of joy, my family, the island of roses, in love, tears of lead, go as it goes
VOTE: Eight 1/2
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Tracklists
These are the 12 songs on the album:
- Tormented soul
- Still still still
- A bit of fun with Mina
- Lead tears
- The island of roses
- In love
- Excuse me
- Photocopy
- Giulia
- My family
- Rays of the sun
- Go as it goes
