the review of the new album “Hello world”

Nuclear Tactical Penguins Hello worldthe review of Alvise Salerno.

How many times do we hear the phrase repeated “eh but this artist is too pop” in a derogatory way, almost as if it were an insult?

How many times have we heard it said, in particular, referring to all those artists and/or bands who have legitimately made the leap from a perhaps too cerebral world like pre-2016 indie to that of pop, within everyone's reach, when from has indie become it-pop?

The list is long and includes people like Calcutta, Gazzelle, Tommaso Paradiso, Coez and we could stay here and quote forever but there is a band that, perhaps, represents this quail leap more than anyone else: the Penguins Tactical Nuclear Of Richard Zanotti.

Few people remember or even know of the existence of songs like 'Ilaria', 'TEast of Medicine Entrance', 'Chestnuts Genge' (with the evergreen quote ad Antonella Clerics and to the historicalIt foams but it's not soap“) or the very viral 'Irene', as well as all the pre-Sanremo songs.

Here, before Ringo Starr and stadiums, before the millions in streaming and the radio success i Penguins they were the princes of Italian indie, brothers of the others Eugenio In Via Di Gioia, Thejournalists first school and so on.

Then, precisely, it arrives completely by chance Sanremo 2020 and the bottom step of the podium behind Diodate And Gabbani with the mega hit, already mentioned before, Ringo Starr.

That was the first step in a direction that few would have expected Zanotti and associates, that of total openness to pop and to a world that has consecrated them over time as a 2.0 version of the 883 (or at least that's what it's been written for years).

Before 'Ouch!', Then 'Fake News' have given us hits that, at this point, we can consider integral parts of the history of modern pop.

It's difficult that, in times of pandemic, someone hasn't cried while singing 'Bergamo' or 'LAUGH'. It's complicated that when they leaveSteal the Night from me' or 'Young Wannabe'there is someone who doesn't sing them. And we could continue.

In short, i PTN they are the musical mirror of this generation between millennials and genZ, without forgetting boomers and the very young genAlfa.

Everyone likes them because they are simple but not banal, they have a transversal audience that allows them to fill stadiums throughout Italy with merit.

Artists who manage to reach at least the podium of the most listened to songs with every single released can only receive applause, it is not a simple and obvious operation.

And they are succeeding even now, they have already succeeded with Iceland And Romantic but Die.

NUCLEAR TACTICAL PENGUINS HELLO WORLD, THE REVIEW

These two songs were the anticipation of Hello Worldthe new album where everything we said before is perfectly condensed into 47 minutes of simplicity combined with the effectiveness of a language that, currently, only Riccardo Zanotti manages to translate into songs.

There are love songs, of course, but they're not just that. They are the representation in music of real life scenes, life lived by thirty-year-olds who, in today's society, can only take refuge in their feelings and, consequently, in the songs that tell them.

“Me Holly and Benji, you Sailor Moon. Two opposite poles but same mood” is the perfect exegesis of what has just been said.

There is 'Burnout', where we try to explain the anxieties and worries of thousands of people who live with this phenomenon, applying it to the reality that the Penguins themselves have probably experienced firsthand.

There is the melancholy of the end of a love Your Dog and of Bitterthere is the very right criticism of humanity Aliensthere is the quote at Carmen Of Bizet in Digital Natives and a whole crescendo of other ordinary and everyday stories that, told by Richard Zanottibecome moments of extraordinary epicness.

The highest point of the album, hands down and without any possibility of reply, is Improve. A song where you cry from the first to the last word, from the first to the last note.

Being able to tell a story as dramatic as that of the femicide/infanticide of Julia They set and of her little baby that she carried in her womb as if it were almost a bedtime story is something that only adults know how to do.

Gently touching such deep emotions and such intense episodes, transforming a painful memory into a dedication of true love from a mother.”who becomes a mother” (Julia) to her child who “he understood that the darkness ended in a lullaby” (Thiago) touches emotional chords that belong to everyone.

Here you are, Hello World it's an album that knows it's simple and its authors are perfectly aware of this but who said that being simple is an evil, a condemnation, a stigma from which to distance oneself?

Being simple means being able to overcome linguistic and emotional barriers which, otherwise, would remain within castles with drawbridges perpetually raised.

Criticize i PTN seems to have become the national sport of those who chase the searched text at all costs, the word that can only be found on the Zanichelli or the harmonic turn that surpasses those of Bohemian Rhapsody.

And then there are them, i Penguinswho, on the other hand, smile and tell their stories to thousands of Italians, aware of being part of their lives and of being able to wake up every day happy to be able to say “Hello World“.