Nuclear Tactical Penguins: traveling with a Sigur Rós record

Icelandic landscapes, broken dreams of sharing, solitary departures, melancholy and romance. The new single from Pinguini Tattici Nucleari is titled “Icelanda” and contains all the characteristic elements of the band’s imagery. After the recent song, “Romantic but you die”already certified Gold Record, the group led by Riccardo Zanotti, on a simple melody (which in the production also includes, among the credits okgiorgio) and with a refrain that we will immediately hear on the radio, he returns to photograph slices of life daily with metaphors that unite the present and the past in a single story, with different quotes that make the song closer to the listener. In short, a “penguin” cocktail that the training audience knows well.

“A car rental with only a Sigur Rós album inside (Icelandic post-rock band, formed in Reykjavík, ed.). The wind pushing us towards the Ring Road, the shark drawn on the T-shirt. And yes, but then I wake up and I’m still here in my studio apartment“, or “Me Holly and Benji, you Sailor Moon, opposite stories, but same mood. I was looking for the sky in your blue eyes. You pulled me up, up, up, I have two tickets to wherever you want, it would be nice to come back to our senses. I’ll call you again, you’re not here anymore”: at the center there is a journey, specifically to Iceland, which does not happen because the two protagonists have taken different paths, but the separation will not prevent one of the two, however, from deciding to leave for the Island.

“‘Iceland’ is a journey that you don’t know where it will take you. Everyone travels for different reasons: some to embrace a new life, some to overcome some trauma, some out of boredom and some out of courage – the group said – when you leave and you you leave because you want to leave someone behind, everything tastes different. ‘Iceland’ starts from this awareness and is dedicated to those who travel to forget or, better said, to create new memories. We ourselves went to Iceland all together as a band and it was a unique trip. So we decided to write a song, which may be a little melancholy, but which is certainly not afraid of new beginnings.” The song anticipates “Hello World”, the new album out on Friday 6 December. The project will be at the center of the “stadium tour 2025”the new live adventure that will see them engaged from next June 7, 2025 for 9 events. The debut in 11 stadiums marked 2023 as the band’s golden year, which continued with the sold out success also achieved in 2024 with 33 indoor dates. One million tickets sold in one year (2023), over one and a half billion streams, two years at the top of the charts, the success of the album “Fake News” (four times Platinum) are the decisive steps with which the group heads towards 2025.