From Ruggeri’s rock (anti-autotune) to Mac Miller’s fine rap

From the rock of Enrico Ruggeri and his “Plato’s Cave”, which the former Decibel presents as an ode to free thought and a criticism of disposable music that “hides behind autotune”, to the rap of Myss Keta. And then Mac Miller’s new posthumous album and the returns of two of the most interesting Italian singer-songwriters of recent years, VV and Marianne Mirage. Here are the albums coming out this week:

Mac Miller – “Balloonerism”

Six years after Mac Miller passed away at just 26, his music lives on. As announced by the family, a new posthumous album by the rapper who tragically passed away in 2018 will be released on January 17th. The album, which will be titled “Balloonerism”, will arrive five years after the previous work published after Miller’s death, “Circles” of 2020, a masterpiece. The late artist, whose real name was Malcolm James McCormick, reportedly worked on “Balloonerism” between 2013 and 2015, during which time he also made “Watching movies with the sound off,” “Delusional Thomas” , “Faces” and “GO:OD AM”.

Enrico Ruggeri – “Plato’s Cave”

“Plato’s Cave”, whose title is inspired by the famous philosophical myth, is a work full of cultural and social reflections, which addresses current issues with the usual poetic intensity and a style that continues to change, while remaining faithful to its artistic identity. A new album for Enrico Ruggeri, three years after the previous “The revolution”, which represents a further step in his artistic journey.

Myss Keta – “.”

It’s simply titled “.” (period) the new album of the masked rapper from Milan, which arrives in the long run. In October the trailblazing single “Volono essere me” was released (a baile funk piece with hints of house), in November it was the turn of “Nevrotika”, while with the new year a third single arrived, “160 BPM”: “La straight kick at 160BPM aims straight at the heart and illuminates it with nocturnal revelations that stir like ghosts – she says, emphatic and enigmatic as usual – in a dark forest of the soul the memories press to come out, the reflections become nostalgic, liberating screams come from the throat: the ritual is completed”. Alright.

Marianne Mirage – “Theatre”

Already the muse of Francesco Bianconi of Baustelle, who in 2017 wrote “Le canzone fa male” for her, the song with which the singer-songwriter competed among young people at the Sanremo Festival, Marianne Mirage returns after four years of recording silence with a new album, “Teatro”.

“A record of poetry and truth, in which music becomes a privileged access route to the inner world”, she defines it. In recent years Marianne Mirage has certainly not remained idle. In 2017 Paolo Genovese commissioned her to write the song “The place” for the soundtrack of the film of the same name, with which the singer-songwriter obtained a nomination for the David Di Donatello and won a Silver Ribbon. In 2018 Pupi Avati chose his “Corri” for “Il fulgore di Dony”. In 2023 he collaborated with Marquis on the soundtrack of the series “I leoni di Sicilia”. And Patty Pravo sought her out for her new album coming out this year, for which the singer-songwriter wrote the song “Amore mio”. .

Nerissima Serpe and Pope V – “Mafia Slime 2”

The two rappers Nerissima SerpePapa V and producer Fritu present the sequel to the corrosive joint album “Mafia Slime”. It promises to be an incorrect, ironic and crude album, just as the imagination constructed by the three predicts. The album’s first launch single was “Tip tap”.

VV – “What a life of”

The title is borrowed, so to speak, from Levante and his “Alfonso”.

But if Claudia Lagona’s was a “shitty life”, that of VV, real name Viviana Colombo, is a life made “of joy, effort, pain, dreams and compromises”. In the songs that make up her new album, the singer-songwriter talks about the anxiety of living, more or less complicated relationships, “but also the beauty of losing oneself and finding oneself again: “It is a sonic journey through the contradictions and challenges of everyday life – she explains the artist, who after being launched by Maciste Dischi, the label behind the success of Gazzelle and Fulminacci, has now been taken under his protective wing by Riccardo Zanotti of Pinguini Tattici Nucleari with his Nigiri – a record that explores the small and large battles we face every day, focusing on the courage to act even when it seems impossible, transforming the apparent fatalism contained in the title into a path of self-determination”.