From Geolier to Si! Boom! Voilà!: the records of the week
We don’t even have time to leave 2025 behind us before the recording season in Italy starts again immediately. And it does so with a wave of musical releases, the first of this 2026, which cross genres and nations. From the long-awaited return of A$AP Rocky with “Don’t be dumb”, his first solo album in eight years, to the electronic flourishing of Planet Funk with “Blooom”, passing through the Italian novelties of Geolier with “Tutto è possibili”, the explosive debut of Si! Boom! Voila! and the new work of Sick Tamburo, up to the post-punk energy of Sleaford Mods with “The demise of Planet X”.
A$AP Rocky – “Don’t Be Dumb”
The countdown to A$AP Rocky’s new album feels real this time. “Don’t Be Dumb”, the album that follows “Testing”, is expected for January 16th and marks a particularly significant recording return: Rocky’s last official project dates back to 2018, and since then years of silence, lateral experimentation, leaks, collaborations and profound changes, both artistic and personal, have passed. A long time, which weighs heavily and which inevitably raises expectations. The first official taste is the single “Punk Rocky”, a song that immediately clarifies one thing: Rocky has no intention of chasing radio formulas or easy trajectories. The piece moves on an overloaded, almost hypnotic dream-pop riff, crossed by an evident punk soul, more attitudinal than declared.
Geolier – “Everything is possible”
Sfera Ebbasta, Anna, Kid Yugi, but also Pino Daniele and 50 Cent (here is the review of the song). Geolier’s new album, “Everything is possible”, has guests ranging from Italian trap to great stars and stripes rap. On January 16, 2026 we will discover how the title track recorded with Pino Daniele and chosen as the opening track of the new album sounds; a title that comes from an unpublished work by Mascalzone Latino. The news of the duet was confirmed by Geolier himself through a video in which the rapper and Alessandro Daniele, son of Pino Daniele and President of the Foundation of the same name, talk about their first meeting and how the song that gave the album its title was born.
Sick Drum – “Dementia”
“Dementia” is the title of Sick Tamburo’s next unreleased album, expected for January 16, 2026 and anticipated by “Silvia runs alone”. Silvia is one of the many strange and crooked characters that inhabit Gian Maria Accusani’s irregular imagination: fragile, irresistible figures, with whom one inevitably falls in love. The song envelops her in a goth/post-punk atmosphere, one of the most recognizable dimensions of Accusani’s poetics, where shadows and feelings intertwine to become a story. Born in Pordenone from the artistic path of Gian Maria Accusani and Elisabetta Imelio after the experience with Prozac+, Sick Tamburo remain one of the most authentic realities of the Italian alternative scene.
Yes! Boom! Voilà – “Yes! Boom! Voilà”
A radical, free, deliberately imperfect rock record. This is meant to be “Si! Boom! Voilà”, the debut album of the collective of the same name founded by the now former Verdena Roberta Sammarelli (bass) together with Davide Lasala and Giulio Ragno Favero (guitars), Goulia Formica (drums) and Michelangelo Mercuri (NAIP, vocals). Musicians all coming from different backgrounds, consolidated experiences and a decidedly collective approach: there is no real creative hierarchy, but a writing that takes shape in the rehearsal room and in the studio through jams, stratifications, tensions and sudden openings. The album returns precisely this dynamic, leaving room for imperfections, frictions and changes of direction. The album represents a founding act more than a simple debut album: it was born from a primary urgency to play together, without a pre-established project or a rigid aesthetic direction. A work built on instinct, physicality and the energy of the moment, which rejects the traditional song form when needed and favors the direct impact of sound. The release of the album will be accompanied by a club tour, for a project that finds its natural extension in the live dimension.
Planet Funk – “Blooom”
Looking to the past without nostalgia, but grasping the legacy of one’s roots to think about the future with energy and awareness: “Blooom”, the new album by Planet Funk, is born from these assumptions. The album marks a phase of creative renewal for the group, which however remains faithful to its sonic identity. The title recalls the idea of flowering understood both as artistic growth and personal transformation. The current lineup includes Alex Neri, Marco Baroni, Dan Black and Alex Uhlmann, who have worked between studios, concerts and collaborations between Italy and the rest of the world in the last intense year of activity. But the album will be a way to honor the legacy of Sergio Della Monica and Domenico “Gigi” Canu, founding members of the Planet Funk project, whose vision continues to influence the group’s artistic path.
Sleaford Mods – “The demise of Planet X”
No, it has nothing to do with the “x dimension” – also called “abyss” – of “Stranger Things”: speaking of the collapse of contemporary society, the album uses the Planet X conspiracy theory as a metaphor for an apocalypse that has already occurred. The songs outline a world crossed by widespread anxiety, digital distortions and cultural decay, in which however banal and paradoxical elements continue to survive amidst the chaos. The album was recorded at the historic JT Soar Studios (Nottingham), with additional sessions at Abbey Road (London) and Invada Studios (Bristol). The sound of “The demise of Planet
