Achille Lauro's artistic mutation process, which has now become an identity figure rather than a real creative expedient, finds in “Ordinary mortals “ A new landing point.
Not definitive, of course – because nothing in Lauro is never – but certainly significant. The rebellious and turbulent soul of the early years seems to have quiet, and this album appears as a melancholy confession, a budget in chiaroscuro made at an uncovered heart, between intimate dedications and measured arrangements.
Lauro undresses with his most theatrical alter ego to dress this time as a singer -songwriter, Roman singer -songwriter in the strict sense.
The disc proposes itself as a florilege of musical letters aimed at key figures of his life: his mother Cristina, to whom she gives a delicate and deeply grateful song; But also his “Senate” his people, that emotional suburbs that forged his imagination and his narrative. It is a gesture of humanization that brings him closer to the public, in a search for universality: the artist dissolves in the choir of “common mortals”, of which he embraces weaknesses, affections, fears.
The focus track Love It is the most emblematic example of this new sensitivity: a dense and cinematographic ballad, set and dedicated to a night and accomplice Rome, in which love assumes discharged tones, almost subdued, like a caress pronounced in urban silence – “hug me Rome before falling asleep tonight”. It is an intimate, domestic capital that welcomes instead of swallowing.
Next to the many Ballads, more dynamic episodes such as Poppy – song that echoes the eighties with a nostalgic but not out of place sax – and the funky of Dirty Loveto remember that Lauro retains a certain familiarity with the language of contaminated pop. However, it is in the most introspective and autobiographical songs that the album finds its emotional and narrative center of gravity.
The limit of Ordinary fatal However, he lies precisely in his sentimental ambition: the tension towards a poetics of universal love sometimes slips into melancholy, with texts that tend to manied lyricism. The risk, already glimpsed in previous metamorphosis, is that the continuous reinvention emptying the artistic identity by weight, making it a smooth but not very adherent surface to reality.
Ordinary fatal It is, ultimately, an honest and conscious album, perhaps the most mature of Lauro. The umpteenth transition work that confirms its talent for the staging, this time folded to a controlled, elegant, yet at times defused intimism.
Achille Lauro tells himself, but he does not always manage to sink.
To listen immediately
Amor – Cristina – Barabba III
To skip immediately
A somewhat slow disc. After the first listening, the second is measured and full of skip.
Score: Vote 6.50
1. Perduly – Vote 6.75
2. Amor – 7.00 vote
3. Dannata San Francisco – Vote 6.50
4. Cristina – 7.50 vote
5. Papavero flowers – 7.00 vote
6. Desperate love – vote 6.50
7. Young unconscious – Vote 6.50
8. Walk of Fame – Vote 6.75
9. Dirty Love – Vote 7.00
10. Born from a rib – 6.50 vote
11. Happy Birthday Mr. Kennedy – Vote 6.50
12. Barabba III – vote 7.00
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