Tutti-Phenomena-Monedi-album-2026
Three years of silence, for Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio, are not a pause but a time of decantation. The time needed to put things back in order, metabolise, shed their skin.
“Monedì” is his third album, after “Merce funebre” and “Privilegio Rare”, and marks a clear twist, rather than a linear evolution. A restart!
Once again Tutti Fenomeni envelops and disorientates the independent scene, also thanks to the production of Giorgio Poi, who does not limit himself to the role of producer but plays and records the entire sound system of the album. The result is a compact, smooth work, in which the aesthetics never tame the content.
If in the past cynicism found refuge in beats and rap detachment, here Guarascio fully accepts the challenge of the song form: less spoken, more melody, less ironic shield, more exposition. It's a surprisingly elegant record, almost classic in structure, but unstable in writing.
His pen remains among the sharpest around.
Capable of crossing sex and power (“sex is a form of military control like alcohol, drugs and salami sandwiches”), religion (“I'm looking for a God because alone I'm afraid of the void”), social and generational reflection (“being thin, being fat has become the class struggle”), up to the most disarmed existential (“it's better to live the night while awake, it's better to have dreams when you're old”). Unsettling juxtapositions, punchlines that stick in the memory, a cultural atlas that goes from Mozart to Berlusconi, from Nico to Elon Musk, from Mao to D'Annunzio, passing through Loredana Berté, without ever becoming an exercise in style.
The real surprise, however, is the vulnerability. Between a ferocious jab at society and a caricature of the class struggle in a diet version, the fear of growing old, the desire, the admission of an emotional fragility that has never been so explicit emerge. Songs like Dying with a sea view, the dog's happiness or Mao they demonstrate that social criticism can also pass through a childish gaze, while irony remains the privileged weapon for keeping death at a distance.
Ten songs that lay bare our time through brilliant wordplay and unexpected contrasts, exploding on the listener in a lucid and ruthless short circuit.
“Monday” is not a return to the origins, but a conscious restart.
A survival album for those who have understood that, between the Big Bang and the Apocalypse, the only possible form of salvation is to continue writing songs that taste like real life. Even when they hurt.
SCORE: 7.25
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You listen to it from start to finish. Without loss of intensity.
