Any Other
Silently. Quietly. Going Away.

The musical 2015 in Italy is coming to an end without having offered great satisfactions, but without having disappointed either (at least for me as the writer).

Among the positive notes: the electronic scene with Yakamoto Kotzuga and Godblesscomputers, Mecna, the reaffirmation of Iosonouncane, Verdena, the mythical Italian Occult Psychedelia (Squadra Omega, Heroin in Tahiti, Lay Llamas, Father Murphy) and, last but not least, Any Other.

Any Other is the musical project of Adele Nigro, structured both in the studio and live with the classic trio formula of guitar-bass-drums. The instrumentation is stripped down to the essentials and the arrangements are enriched here and there with some keyboards for 40 minutes that do not show any drops from one piece to another.

"Silently. Quietly. Going Away" is a debut album that sounds fresh, despite having explicit influences from names with strong nineties connotations. Listening to the album, bands like Built To Spill (particularly "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"), Pavement, and early Modest Mouse inevitably come to mind. And to some extent, the influence of certain emo from those same years is also felt. But even though the nods are clear, Adele seems to have fully captured the naive spirit of that decade.

Another point in favor of the album is the voice and the lyrics which are markedly autobiographical. Lyrics focused on the life and feelings of a twenty-year-old.

Without wanting to praise it at any cost, it cannot be denied that if they were born in Illinois or Massachusetts, they would already be among the high scoring albums on Pitchfork, as well as in the end-of-year charts of webzines around the world. "Silently. Quietly. Going Away" has nothing to envy to the releases of contemporaries like Speedy Ortiz, Waxahatchee, Hop Along, Courtney Barnett.