reviews
everything. The bass track
introduces Lunedì sera,
which quickly becomes
noisy and intense, with
the drums occupying a
good portion of the scene
and the guitar even more
sour. Pittore minore pursues electric ways, always
with a touch of desperation. La conta dei danni
opens on a guitar riff that
introduces the drumming
that introduces other
guitars, with voice to
complete a piece dark
and very tight.
Milano/estate n.4 is
more calm than what we
heard so far. We return to
indie with Ormai Fabrizio vi ha fregato, on the
tracks of the high speed,
with the guitar that goes
crazy. A cena dagli amici di Gioia is rolled
around a guitar riff, with claustrophobic and
disturbing lyrics. Io ritorno domani is quieter at first, but inclined to hard drifts. Anna è
a Berlino starts slowly, but as always calm is
apparent, and implies a conflagration that is
never too late in coming. Last track is Primavera, between birds and acoustic guitar riffs,
but not really a happy season one sung by the
band. Given the good inspiration expressed
by the lp, you wonder why Uto waited eight
years. However the record has impact, originality, writing skills and attention to detail.
In a word, everything.
Uto
Early in 2000s, Uto were a band full of hope:
winners of then important Arezzo Wave, from
2001 to 2005 they published eps, playing in
concert with the likes of Guano Apes, Blonde
Redhead, Marlene Kuntz, or as headliners.
But then they opened a recording studio and
stopped, for eight years. So it took eight years to reach to the first lp, Animalidasalvare.
And when they arrived in studio, they throw
away all the material accumulated over the
previous eight years and rewrite the lp all
over again, in three months. The record opens
with Squali, not necessarily aggressive, that
starts softly and then sours, with guitar progressions and a veil of melancholy that covers
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C
ircus Around is the
new ep of Akroama,
stage name of Tommaso Di
Santo: the young producer, born in 1996, is part of
the roster of Doner Music.
Anticipated by the video
of Humans, featuring Alex
Anderson, and by the title
track Circus Around, the ep
follows Objectivers, published along with Big Fish in
the Doner Bombers Compilation Vol. 2. The ep includes
seven tracks of electronic
music, between ambient and
neighboring genres, with a
certain playful background.
Life opens the record on
very bright colors and an air
quite buzzy, with some features that we will find in much of the work.
It’s a dialogue, even in dramatic colors, the
one included in the Right War, in which the
human voice makes and appareance, although with profoundly distorted sound. The title
track Circus Around instead proposes a voice clean and understandable, in a landscape
that, with some dance impulse, unfolds in
a standard structure almost pop. Humans,
with Alex Anderson, is another piece enriched by keyboards fully committed to providing a very bubbly surround, on which rests
a rhythm moderate but strong. The following
song Fragility, otherwise, comes from very
far, building piece by piece its sounds, while False Light builds a sound very fluid, but
also animated by joke sounds indeed curious.
Dead Line closes the album mimicking some
Akroama
rock sound, and extending its scope to a panorama with boundless echoes. Akròama
builds a consistent ep, with some little excess
to clean up here and there. But this work is
smooth as much as alive.
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