Vol. 41-2026 of WECB Friday – our report cards from the first Friday listens.
THE PLAYLIST
THE REPORT CARDS PIECE BY PIECE
Mina – Rating 8.00 – Jimmy Fontana’s song is reduced to voice, acoustic guitar and piano. Mina sings it as if it had always belonged to her, and the empty space around the voice removes any suspicion of nostalgia. Out of category, even with the covers.
David Byrne – Daniel Pemberton – Rating 8.00 – The booklet is made up of Elon Musk’s public statements, edited in sequence to compose a satirical portrait. The fast pace does the rest. Musk’s words are what make you laugh, and the caricature is useless. Brilliant.
Fabri Fibra – Neffa – Rating 7.50 – Two paths that have marked Italian rap in different eras meet on the same piece. The understanding is based on craft and writing, while the production remains aside and lets them do the talking. Master!
Ifulki – Rating 7.50 – A musical operation that combines jazz, house and Moroccan suggestions on a soulful piano that gives the song a natural movement. IFULKI avoids ornamental hybridization and maintains a good rhythmic tension. Surprisingly vital.
Disturbance – Llyod Cole – Rating 7.50 – The Italian version of Music in a Foreign Language plays on the gap between sound and meaning and derives from it the story of two lovers who no longer understand each other. Cole enters the last verse, in English, and the translation closes in on itself. The arrangement works by subtraction. Dreamy.
Vinicio Capossela – Rating 7.50 – Capossela enters the universe of Dylan Thomas with visionary writing, suspended between dream and destiny. The reference to Renato Striglia adds an elegiac vein that remains light. Literary.
Arlo Parks – Rating 7.50 – Arlo intertwine there softness from the voice with beat electronic come on finishes dance, finding a balance Between intimacy And movement. There writing preserve sensitivity without sacrifice The rhythm, in a synthesis stylistic at this point Always more recognizable. Refined, refined!
Marco Mengoni – Rating 7.00 – Lost days takes Mengoni towards a more adult pop, where the acoustic system coexists with a super refined contemporary production. The homage to Dalla is evident but not invasive, while the writing avoids the easiest sentimentality. A solid, well-calibrated song where his voice explodes and molds itself perfectly to the rhythm. Evolutionary!
Levant – Rating 7.00 – Desire and nostalgia flow on a trend that takes its colors from the new wave, not the pattern. The result is an oblique elegance, which is the register in which Levante does best. Centered.
Rkomi – Rating 7.00 – Mirko returns to his rap roots with an expressive awareness that was missing in his latest works. The pop season is not denied, but here it finally finds a direction. Found again.
Judeline – Rating 7.00 – Judeline rework the imaginary melancholy Of Yann Tiersen sampling “J’y suis jamais allé”, from the column sound Of Amélie. A grafting recognizable That he adds charm cinematic al song, even though taking risks Of trust too at the suggestion from the source.
Chiara Civello – Clap! Clap! – CCCC- Rating 7.00 – Nu jazz, art pop and electronics broken into broken beats accompany a tale of isolation and spiritual transformation. Experimentation becomes a form of healing, and the emotional thread holds up even in the most cerebral passages. Visionary.
Giulia Pratelli – Score 6.75 – The album looks at the anxieties of the present with introspective and sincere writing. The system is well calibrated, but here and there the lyric returns to paths already traveled by recent songwriting. Pratelli seeks dialogue with those who listen and never raises his voice to obtain it. Measured.
Fists – Score 6.75 – It’s a light-footed ballad, with a rough voice that sings about the inability to love without hurting. The image of William Tell works, while some passages slip into sentimentality. The melody holds the weight. Sincere.
Troye Sivan – Score 6.75 – Troye transform the wait sentimental in a fantasy pop euphoric, dedicated to a Love Still from encounter. The idea ha a its lightness contagious, but stay more effective in intention That in the depth emotional.
Remi Wolf – Score 6.75 – Remi Wolf blunt The edges of his pop eccentric with Champagne, leaving emerge a writing more collection. There personality it remains anyway recognizable.
Slayyyter – Rating 6.75 – The suspicion of betrayal becomes an escape to New York, between sentimental rivalries and glamour. The irreverent step is the same as always, and so is the veneer, under which there is little. Patinated.
Britney Spears – Rating 6.50 -The song comes from the 2001 sessions: end-of-relationship pop that claims its identity in front of an ex. It works, but the philological interest weighs as much as the song. Archaeological. A leap into the past.
Jangy Leeon – Rating 6.50 – The engine is Jack The Smoker’s beat, solid and steeped in West Coast. Jangy Leeon holds his own against El Gant and Ras Kass, and Louie Rubio breaks the flow with measure. The international connection works, the sparks are missing. Correct.
Lorenzo Senni – Rating 6.50 – Senni crosses electronic and hardcore in a song that collides two skate icons, Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas. The idea has its immediacy, but the dialogue remains more conceptual than musical. A curious experiment, not entirely resolved.
YOUAREHERE – Rating 6.50 – Electronic layering and constantly changing textures keep the piece in tension. The work on the dynamics is good and the form escapes predictability, but the research does not always find a development. Mobile.
Marcus Scipio – Rating 6.50 – Marco Scipione transforms the sax into an electric material, between drones, distortions and abrasive timbres. The idea is interesting and the live dimension adds rigor to the project, but the piece tends to expand intuitions that can turn out to be virtuosity rather than essences.
The Chamomile Workshop – Rating 6.50 – L’Officina della Camomilla translates the imagery of Bret Easton Ellis into an eighties synth pop fresco of hedonism and self-destruction. Ellis it effectively evokes the rot beneath the golden surface.
Jovanotti – Samurai Jay – Rating 6.50 – Jovanotti And Samurai Jay they intertwine sonority Caribbean in a song from the step immediate And contagious. There admixture works, but it seems depend Very from the context festive For release all there its effectiveness. Out from the beach, stay from verify it there held. Late summer.
sangiovanni – Rating 6.50 – ok goodnight searches for light, ironic pop with an immediate refrain in everyday life. Sangiovanni shows good melodic naturalness, but the writing remains predictable and the song does not delve beyond the surface of the small neuroses of every day
TY1 – Kid Yugi – Marracash – Rating 6.50 – TY1 brings together Kid Yugi And Marracash on a beat gloomy And deep, ideal For exhibit technique And weight specific. The comparison holds, but The song it seems aim more on the statement Of status in the scene That on a real evolution sound. Muscular.
October – Rating 6.25 – OCTOBER puts psychological fragilities, destructive relationships and personal contradictions into music, seeking a balance between autobiographical confession, generational gaze and super rough rock. Restless.
Clamö – Rating 6.25 – Techno, rap and electronics go into short circuit, with straight drums and rumble under a writing about fragility and the need for approval. The contrast between the icy production and the emotional part works, but you quickly understand where it’s going. Tense.
Nashley – Rating 6.25 – Always alone brings Nashley back towards a more intimate writing, supported by the piano and an orchestral arrangement that expands the story of the province and the passing of time. The nostalgia is authentic, but remains within the already known coordinates of urban-pop. Melancholy.
soap – Rating 6.25 – Sophie focuses on the inadequacy and ambivalences of the bonds with a confessional writing, which favors emotional disorder in the search for answers. Soap convinces with its sincerity, but the story struggles to free itself from already established introspective coordinates.
Cut – Rating 6.00 – Cuta entrusts an introspective story about sentimental mistakes to piano, strings and tight rhythm. Cuta avoids victimhood and focuses on direct confession, but the storytelling remains anchored to formulas already explored by conscious rap.
GIOVAPIÙGIOVA – Rating 6.00 – I WILL BE BACK born on emotional electronics and deliberately immediate writing. The theme of sentimental memory is treated with discretion, but without particular deviations from the codes of contemporary electronic pop. Pleasant but not very surprising.
Laioung – Rating 5.00 – An assemblage of trap, afrobeat and Mediterranean inflections on a rather conventional production. The refrain takes hold immediately, while the identity theme remains more declared than truly developed. A song without any particular surprises.
Orietta Berti – Nina Zilla – Danti – Rating 4.50 – Orietta Berti, Nina Zilli and Danti create a song that arrives out of time, clinging to the sounds of a summer hit without a real reason to exist beyond the season. Superfluous.
Baby K – Guè – Rating 4.00 – LOVE/DILEMMA proposes the typical urban-pop of Baby K between ostentatious sensuality, criminal metaphors and a chorus built on the love/temptation game. The writing, however, accumulates clichés without transforming them, while the production leaves no traces. Guè appears but no breakthrough. Everything has been heard for years!
