Matteo Di Falco has decided to stay out of the game of half measures. “Very black” is not an album that tries to please everyone, and perhaps that's why it works.
Sixteen tracks plus one, the new episode of 64 Bars, which photograph eighteen months of life lived vertically: up, down, up again. Tours, sold out shows, skeletons in the closet and nights alone in the dark of the room. A roller coaster that Nerissima doesn't try to stop, she gets on it and writes a record on it.
He says it without filters:
I stayed alone in the room in the dark, alone with my skeletons and my demons.” It's not a pose. You can hear it.
The puck follows that same unstable trajectory. On the one hand the rough, battle rapper pieces, those built to make noise, to test the microphone and the audience. On the other, the songs that slow down, go beneath the surface and find something that grates: You Make Me, I hear sounds, Who Knows they are the most exposed side of the artist, the one that renounces armor. The result is an album that never stands still, and not due to stylistic choice but because it reflects exactly what the life of those who wrote it is like.
The beats hold all this weight without giving way. Dark, velvety, built to move, not to stay still. Immortal Music it is the point where the production and the lyrics fit together best: stylish without becoming cold, lyrical without becoming self-referential.
Guests go beyond phoned streaming. Madame brings a duet that talks about toxic love and everything you can't say when you should. Kid Yugi enters like a wall, direct, without premises. Artie 5ive lightens up the drama on a trip to Corfu that breaks the rhythm at the right time. With Papa V, Latrelle and Promessa the tone becomes more intimate, almost domestic: family, block, memory.
The album's bravest moment is called Laughing at You (2026). A tribute to Vasco Rossi that does not slip into an empty quote. The operation works because it doesn't imitate it, it reinterprets it. If Vasco were twenty now, he'd probably be doing something similar. Intuition holds.
The black of the title is not an aesthetic. It is a state of mind that Matteo knows well and has learned not to avoid:
Inside this abyss, even if it's scary, we have to go through it to understand ourselves.”
“Very black” it is the documentation of that passage. Not always linear, not always comfortable, but authentic in the most concrete sense of the term: someone put real things in it.
Matteo is evolving. Also looking for new colors. It's now a certainty.
SCORE: 7.00
TO LISTEN NOW
Immortal Music – Laughing at You (2026) – Bacio del Cobra (feat. Artie 5ive) – Comunicazione (feat. Madame)
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
Some pieces are quite useless, like Rocky or Slime Slime Slime. Fillers!
TRACKLIST
1. Whoops
2. Immortal Music
3. Armato (feat. Kid Yugi)
4. 4 Legs
5. Laugh at You (2026)
6. Close but Far
7. Slime Slime Slime
8. Cobra Kiss (feat. Artie 5ive)
9. You make me
10. Tempo (feat. Latrelle & Promessa)
11. Rocky
12. Tilt
13. Famiglia (feat. Papa V)
14. Communication (feat. Madame)
15. I hear sounds
16. Who knows
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