“Alaska baby” by Cremonini and the other records of the week
It will be a “giant” album, promises Cesare Cremonini when presenting “Alaska baby”. To release the ideal successor to “The Girl of the Future”, the former Lunapop has chosen the date of November 29th, this Friday. He will be the one to dominate New Music Friday, since there are no releases of a similar caliber on the calendar. But the week that has just begun will also mark the return to the recording scenes of Fiorella Mannoia and Psicologi. And in the Italian rap world Massimo Pericolo stands out. Here are the records to listen to.
Cesare Cremonini – “Alaska baby”
It’s called “Alaska baby”: it’s Cesare Cremonini’s new album and comes out on November 29th, two and a half years after “The girl of the future”. It contains 12 new songs and is produced by Cremonini himself together with Alessandro De Crescenzo and Alessio Natalizia, or NotWaving, already working on Cosmo’s latest album. The title refers to the two-month trip to America, up to Alaska and the Arctic Circle, in the winter of 2023, which the singer-songwriter recounted on social media: “I started writing a new album as soon as I got home. I’ve already changed compared to last year and I feel lucky to have music as my spokesperson and life partner.” Then he said: “An album born on the border, in which once again I tried to overcome my limits. The most important theme of ‘Alaska Baby’ is that of rebirth.”
Massimo Pericolo – “Things change – deluxe”
Massimo Pericolo returns on November 29th with a deluxe edition of his latest album “Le cose cambia”. An expansion with four unreleased tracks that closes a circle illuminated by the sold-out at the Milan Forum about a year ago. The preview of the deluxe arrived during the “Siete Pluggers” event, where Massimo Pericolo exclusively revealed some gems of the new edition. The four new tracks continue the rapper’s message of revenge and hope: a sound and lyrics that resonate with those who come from difficult realities and don’t give up. In these new episodes, Massimo lucidly talks about real life: that of his friends, of his people, and of that province made of contrasts, dreams and thorns.
Psychologists – “DIY”
“DIY” stands for “Do it yourself”.
It is a manifesto of freedom and creative independence that the Psychologists have chosen to christen their new album, which marks the return of the duo composed of Drast, pseudonym of Marco De Cesaris, and Lil Kvneki, pseudonym of Alessio Aresu, both born in 2001, among the leading exponents of post-indie pop. They won over Generation Z with songs like “Self Esteem”, “On the Walls”, “Tattoos”, “Ghost”. Now two years after the previous “Trauma”, in the new album the duo talks about their growth. In these last two years – during which they have undertaken solo paths – Drast and Kvneki have had time and opportunity to grow, mature and become aware of what they want to communicate and, above all, how to do it. The album was born precisely from the need to be free and to detach ourselves from what is “cool”, it is an invitation to explore what distinguishes each of us and to express our uniqueness by shunning the concept of necessary homologation. .
Fiorella Mannoia – “Disobey”
At 70 years old last spring, the redhead Roman singer “treats” herself to a new album of unreleased songs. “Disobbedire” arrives in the wake of Mannoia’s return to the competition at the Sanremo Festival with that “Mariposa” which has already become a new manifesto of the interpreter who here personally signs “songs that blend love and awareness, hope and denunciation”. He defines those that make up the album as “songs that look to our time and in which music becomes a spokesperson for cultural and social commitment”. Among the guests are Francesca Michielin and Federica Abbate in “History must not repeat itself”, Piero Pelù in “On the wrong side” and Michele Bravi in ”Tomorrow is spring”.
