Aiello is back with the new album Scorpioout from Friday 22 May 2026 for Epic Records / Sony Music. Let's discover the singer-songwriter's fourth studio album song by song.
On the radio the album is accompanied by the single Below Belowwhile in digital the focus track is Matches with Antonia.
Scorpio: the meaning of the new album by Aiello
Scorpio is a nine-track album that starts from a series of “ends” (relationships, cities, life phases) to arrive at a new beginning. It is not a classic love diary in the past but the story of the transition from mourning the finished story to the rebirth of self-love.
The album is also the fruit of a concrete change: the transfer of Aiello from Rome to Milan and the construction of a new everyday life. It is the central theme of the opening ADL (Artists of Love)explicitly dedicated to the passage from one city to another.
Regarding the tone of the album, the singer-songwriter himself declared:
“Somewhere I read: the greatest gifts in life are not found in plans, but in deviations. This album is the fruit of a lot of roads, unforeseen and new, that I traveled for the first time. There are nine songs in which I tell the most mature and conscious dialogue with my shadows, my most recent relationship with the feeling of love”.
Aiello in Tokyo for the festival Italy, my love!
Before the Italian tour, Aiello will present Scorpio in Tokyo. From the 5 to 7 June 2026 the singer-songwriter will be among the protagonists of the festival Italy, my love!the largest Italian festival in Japan, promoted by Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan. The tenth edition will be held in Roppongi Hills and will celebrate ten years of promoting Italian culture and excellence in the Asian country.
The festival opens with an inauguration party on June 5th at the Roppongi Hills Arenaan evening built around Italian food, wines and cocktails with live music and DJ sets. In addition to Aielloon stage too Niccolò Fabi And Marie Antoinette with Colombrerecently released with the new single Without Clothes.
Aiello – Scorpio: track-by-track meaning
ADL (Artists of Love)
ADL (Artists of Love) opens the album as the last chapter of a story that no longer exists and, at the same time, the first page of a new life. It is a goodbye to Rome and a promise, in the awareness that changing cities is sometimes a form of reconstruction. Aiello he wrote it starting from his move to Milan.
Matches feat. Antonia
Matchesthe album's focus track, is a sequence of snapshots that tell why certain stories fail to stay in flight. Aiello And Antonia they sing it as a lucid analysis of encounters that remain fire and nothing else, oscillating between surrender and the desire to believe again.
Scorpio feat. Leo Gassmann
The title track Scorpiowritten with Leo Gassmannis the turning point of the album: the dialogue in the mirror with one's own shadows. Aiello he presents it as a request for an embrace, for respite and for non-judgment, after a journey of almost four years in search of himself.
Goodbye Monster
Goodbye Monster uses the love story as a pretext to close with a greater weight. It is a salute to the memories that still inhabit the mind, within a melancholy that has lost the ability to drag you down. The track breathes new air and projection towards tomorrow.
A Thousand Hurricanes
A Thousand Hurricanes it is the song of the personal rebirth of Aiello. A letter written to himself, without armor, in which he declares that he has rediscovered the pleasure of writing and making music. It is the awareness that after many “hurricanes” gone through, the encounter with oneself is still possible.
Giants
Giants talks about maturity. After the stories that hurt and after the falls, it is the awareness that you can learn to stay, to make peace with your monsters and to build something new. For the same Aiello It's one of the most beautiful declarations of love I've ever written. The song is signed with Santoianni.
Sentimental feat. Levant
Sentimentalthe first single of the project released in October 2025, is the song of love at the end of the line told in duo with Levant. It's the last hug and the shameless cry that closes a story. No anger, just the good melancholy that teaches you to let go.
Below Below
Below Belowthe radio single from the album, is a summer manifesto: a party at sunset on the terrace, with the sea in front. It is also a request for lightness to remain together, within an admission of responsibility and a measured fear.
As You Feel
As You Feel closes the album as the lightest chapter. A song that breathes, free and bright, set in the Aeolian sea. It tells of a nostalgia that no longer weighs: a finished story that finally finds peace.
The sonic influences of Scorpio: Contemporary R&B and Italian singer-songwriter
From a musical point of view, Aiello he took care of the artistic production of the album together with BRAILcalling on various producers to collaborate. Scorpio puts R&B at the center, a genre that the singer-songwriter has listened to since he was a child and which here returns in a lo-fi, warm and intimate guise.
The international influences cited by the artist are those of Frank Ocean, SZA, Daniel Caesar And Justin Bieber. From the Italian side the declared reference passes through Rino Gaetano, Raffaella Carrà, Pino Daniele And Mina: names that enter into the interpretative approach, the theatricality and the intensity of the voice.
The Tour Club 2026 by Aiello
The songs on the album will become the heart of the Tour Club 2026 Of Aiellowhich will bring the singer-songwriter to the clubs of the main Italian cities starting from November. Along with the new tracks, the songs that marked the previous chapters of his career, from his debut to today, will also return to the setlist.
Photo by Manuel Grazia
