Mace returns on Friday 15 May with Bad Habitsa new single that he puts together for the first time in the same song Psalm And Colapesce.
Bad Habitsout for Atlantic Records Italy / Warner Music Italywas premiered during the sold out live show at the Forum in Milan on April 30th. A song built on electronic grooves, very present guitars and French Touch references, with drums recorded by Derrick McKenziehistoric drummer of Jamiroquai.
Mace brings Salmo and Colapesce together in the same piece
In Bad Habits two almost opposite writings coexist. Psalm works on the most chaotic and instinctive part of the piece, recounting the continuous return to the same mistakes and the same emotional dependencies.
Colapesce instead it moves on more suspended images, transforming the refrain into something very melodic and hypnotic: “I only learned to fly / among monsters I feel safe / at night my best talent is burning in the sky”.
The result is an unusual meeting also for their respective artistic paths. On the one hand the direct and nervous language of Psalmon the other the most evocative writing of Colapesce. In between, the production of Macewhich holds everything together without flattening the identities of the two artists.
French Touch, psychedelia and Jamiroquai in “Bad Habits”
The song's production revolves around a very rhythmic structure, with prominent guitars, layered synths and psychedelic textures. The piece contains electronic references that recall the French Touch, but also more organic sounds linked to the drums played by Derrick McKenzie.
They also appear in the creative team of the single Swan, Danilo Mazzone, Federico Nardelli, Danny Bronzini And one hundred thousand thousandpresent in the choirs.
A song where the production becomes the center of the song. The voices enter, move away and change shape continuously following the movement constructed by Mace.
MACE – Bad Habits” – meaning of the song
The single revolves around the idea of always falling back into the same mechanisms, even when you try to get out of them. A theme that takes different directions in the piece depending on the voice that passes through it.
Psalm pushes on the more impulsive and self-destructive side, while Colapesce transforms that sense of fall into an almost romantic image, close to the myth of Icarus: wasting oneself in order to continue to feel alive.
Photo by Giuseppe Antonelli
