Amyl and the Sniffers, Florence and FASK: a rocking Friday

From Italian songwriting to pop, passing through the great international rock: a New Music Friday like this week’s aims to bring everyone together. There is the return of Vinicio Capossela and that of Fast Animals And Slow Kids and La Representative di Lista. There’s dirty, powerful rock from Amyl and the Sniffers. There’s a nice live album by Florence and the Machine, but also Halsey’s new album. And for lovers of Italian pop, the return as a duo of Benji & Fede, but also of Olly. Here are the most anticipated releases:

Florence and the Machine – “Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall)”

“BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall” is the recording of the concert that Florence and the Machine, led by the histrionic Florence Welch, held in the London temple of live music on 11 September. The “Dog days are over” band performed together with an orchestra directed by the British Jules Buckley, who in the pop and rock fields has worked with artists such as Tori Amos, Michael Kiwanuka, Massive Attack, Arctic Monkeys, Emeli Sandré and Jamie Cullum. With the ensemble, Welch and his companions rearranged some of their pieces in an orchestral key. The digital version of the album will be released this Friday, while for the vinyl and CD we will have to wait until March 14th.

Amyl and The Sniffers – “Cartoon Darkness”

Recorded with Nick Launey (formerly working with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, “Cartoon Darkness” talks about climate change, artificial intelligence, politics, digital activism, information processing and of the need to search for beauty in confusion. For some years now, the punk rock group formed by Amy Taylor, Bryce Wilson, Dec Mehrtens and Gus Romer has attracted the attention of lovers of the genre and professionals, also thanks to their eccentric and sketchy performances by singer Amy Taylor with this album I’m on the hunt for definitive consecration.

Fast Animals and Slow Kids – “Hotel existence”

This is the Perugian band’s seventh studio album. “It is an album that contains within itself various aspects of our music, like the rooms of a hotel furnished differently but designed in the same way – they explain – songs that talk about parties to escape from, of highways that take you home and of the hell we have inside.” The album has the ambition of being “a place in our mind where anyone who wishes can enter”. And the new songs from the album will fill the setlists of the already announced ‘Festa Tour 2024’, which from 4 December will bring the Umbrians to stages throughout Italy, from Milan to Catania.

Capossela – “Sciusten Feste N.1965”

The singer-songwriter’s new album is “Sciusten Feste N.1965” and will be released on Friday 25 October. It will be presented with a long European and Italian tour. The album, produced for La Cupa by Vinicio Capossela and Alessandro “Asso” Stefana, recorded between 2020 and 2021 together with the singer-songwriter’s historic band, contains fifteen songs including unreleased songs, rewrites, revisitations and reinterpretations of party standards, with the participation of some special guests such as Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Mikey Kenney and Vincenzo Vasi. The project has a long history that dates back to 1999, the year in which Capossela held the first “holiday concert” at Fuori Orario, a historic venue overlooking the railway tracks in Taneto di Gattatico. Since then, he has continued to give life to overflowing concerts every December, which glorified the holiday and brought it to life. Concerts thanks to which a community and a tradition were created.

List Representative – “Happy Days”

On October 25th La Representative di Lista will release the new album “Giorni felici”. The album by the duo composed of Veronica Lucchesi and Dario Mangiaracina follows by three and a half years the previous “My mamma”, released in March 2021. “Giorni Felici” wants to represent a new evolution of the sound, albeit recognizable, of the band that returns to explore past sounds and generational anthems as if everything formed a soundtrack. The duo wants to delve into “human emotion and relate it to the world”.

Halsey – “The great impersonator”

Earlier this year Halsey kept fans on the edge of their seats by revealing that she has leukemia and lupus: “I feel like I’m an old lady, but I’m still lucky to be alive,” she said.

“The great impersonator” is the diary of these difficult months: “I made this album fighting between life and death”, explains the 30-year-old American pop star, who returns four years after her last album. The album was preceded by the song “I Never Loved You”, written by the artist together with Michael Uzowuru (Frank Ocean, Sza, Rosalia) and Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus). which the artist performed at the VMAs (accompanied on bass by Victoria De Angelis of Maneskin), “Lonely is the Muse”, “Lucky” and “The End”. of time and destiny, and what kind of artist Halsey would be if she existed in different decades. The songs within explore different musical genres from various decades of the past, thus ranging from the late ’60s to the early 2000s. Inside, you can see references to Fleetwood Mac from the 70s, Bruce Springsteen from the 80s, Oasis, Third Eye Blind and Portishead from the 90s, and references from 2000 ranging from Britney Spears to Deftones up to Postal Service. In addition to the musical aspect, Halsey enjoyed impersonating musical icons of the various decades, publishing photos on her social profiles that portray her wearing the clothes of great artists.

Olly – “All life”

While “Tutta vita” is being released, Olly is in first place in the Fimi/Gfk chart of the best-selling and most listened to singles in Italy, for the second consecutive week: thanks to the single that anticipated the release of the album, “Per due come noi” , in duet with Angelina Mango. The conditions for the return of the Genoese singer-songwriter launched last year by the Sanremo Festival – his “Polvere” won the Platinum Record – are more than excellent. “Tutta vita”, produced by the inseparable Jvli, is “a journey through the moments of Olly’s life and emotions which become reflections in which we recognize ourselves and which show all the musical facets of the artist”.

Benji & Fede – “Rewind”

When they met, in 2010, Benjamin Mascolo and Federico Rossi were 17 and 16 years old respectively.

When they released their first album, in 2015, they were 22 and 21 years old. Together they performed on stages, drove kilometers and kilometers on the road, climbed the charts, collected Gold and Platinum records with albums like “20.05” , “0+”, “We’re just noise” and “Good vibes”, until they decided to take different paths, with the promise, sooner or later, of meeting again. The announcement came in 2020, four and a half years ago. Now, after having carved out some space for themselves as soloists, Benji & Fede get back together and do so with an album, “Rewind”, with which they try to rediscover the magic of when they started making music together, moving the hands of time back fourteen years. .