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Rating: After an intimate and singer-songwriter album to listen to in solitary moments with one's own thoughts like "I Moralisti," Amor Fou led by Alessandro Reina (former voice of Giardini di Mirò) return with full force with "Cento Giorni Da Oggi."
The album displays a clear change and a renewal of the group's roots. Gone are the singer-songwriter approach and sometimes melancholic atmospheres of songs like "De Pedis," with a decided U-turn that presents them in 2012 as more electronic, more danceable, with a turning point this time accessible to more people than their previous works could achieve.
The album flows in a smooth and fresh way. Its strength lies in the fact that it is a simple album, in tune with the season in which it was released. Because, in the end, you can have fun with a basic and accessible album, if it's made with the mind and not with a wallet in hand.
The sound sometimes recalls something of MGMT or Baustelle for the lyrics; personally, I feel less of Arcade Fire, although many have associated them in the analysis of this work.
There are songs with more instrumental play, like the opening "Gli zombie nel video di thriller" which carries a children's choir or the closing "Tigri (the song)," but in general, it's the electronic layers that take over and sustain the framework of excellent tracks such as "Alì," "Una vita violenta," and "Forse Italia."
The song that most resembles the previous album is "Le guerre umanitarie," while the vintage pop of "Vero" seems to have come out of a session of Verdena’s coop while recording Wow.
Notably, the participation of Alessandro Baroncini from Altro in the singular and edgy "Radiante" should be mentioned.
They offer certain sounds that are in some ways novel in their mother tongue with a very youthful and current lexical dictionary made of modern precarious situations, wars, and social networks listed on the oriental markets, changing skin and emerging victorious.
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It’s simply full of beautiful songs, like that.
In short, these Amor Fou are good.
By alia76
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By Listening Room
Do not get distracted. This is the command imposed by Amor Fou in their third album 100 Giorni Da Oggi.
On the first listen might even seem pretentious and arrogant, but manages to unleash its essence only listen after listen.
