Marco-Giudici-Finding-themselves-all-sudden-album-2025
There are records that arrive after a long decantation, not due to simple slow production but because certain fractures require time to be named.
“Suddenly finding yourself alone”, the second chapter by Marco Giudici, seems to arise precisely from this need: not so much to talk about the loss, but rather to explore the gap between what is let go and what remains stuck in the memory.
Five years since the debut (in between an EP partly incorporated into this album) are not a whim, but a margin of survival. Giudici uses them to focus on an emotional lexicon that never veers towards sentimentality, preferring a dry register that addresses detachment in its variations: people who move away, gestures that wear out, desires that sink. The core is here: subtraction as a creative gesture.
The nine tracks, two of which are instrumental, useful as breathing brackets, function more like communicating rooms than isolated episodes.
Marco Giudici is not afraid to use words, showing wounds and scars that are easy to recognize. He does it in his own way, with deep lyrics and paradoxical lightness. He takes us by the hand and takes us into an intimate and delicate world, brazenly sincere, which at times recalls the atmospheres of Sufjan Stevens and surrounding areas.
In my opinion, sometimes it is precisely the toughest corners that are the most beautiful to share and there is an almost light way of doing so – or perhaps of combining lightness with heaviness – which I find profoundly necessary and liberating. Like when after a funeral people sit in a bar and laugh together at light things – without forgetting the moment – almost as if that were the real celebration.
The timbral choices underline this dialectic. Tubular bells, celesta, dulcitone: instruments with an evident physical body, almost fragile in their presence, which contrast the more ethereal component of the texts. The drums, entrusted to Alessandro Cau and Nicholas Remondino, oscillate between impact and suspension, as if the rhythm itself hesitated. The sound system seeks an imperfect three-dimensionality, deliberately material, far from both the minimalist veneer and any orchestral pathos.
The production shared with Adele Altro reiterates a now consolidated and functional partnership here: there is no complacency, if anything a mutual listening that brings the arrangements to a conscious sobriety. The choirs – Marta Del Grandi, Cecilia Grandi and other collaborators similar to the Giudici universe – add a discreet chorality, never decorative, like presences who enter on tiptoe and disappear without greeting.
“Finding yourself alone suddenly” is a record that doesn't seek approval and doesn't pretend to be revelatory. It is a coherent, measured work that shows an author fully within his own process but still in transition. A solid, not definitive proof: precisely for this reason it is interesting. Giudici does not offer emotional shortcuts, if anything an invitation to stay on the margin, where the cracks illuminate more than the surfaces.
Marco is a safe crossroads to listen to… a life habit, a normal thing, in the back of your eyes, so as not to find yourself alone, suddenly alone…
SCORE: 7.75
TO LISTEN NOW:
Habits of life – A safe crossroads – They all remember a great noise
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
A small intimate jewel, suspended, refined and refined.
TRACKLIST:
1. Lifestyle habits
2. A safe crossroads
3. Finding yourself alone
4. (pause)
5. Only suddenly
6. A normal thing
7. Everyone remembers a great noise
8. I lie down
9. (deep in the eyes)
DISCOGRAPHY
2020 – Stupid things of enormous importance
2025 – Suddenly finding yourself alone
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