Babel
Resta un pizzico di delusione nella delusione

THE REVIEW

I recently discovered this band thanks to the videoclip of “L’uomo migliore”, the opening track of this “Resta un pizzico di delusione nella delusione”. I found myself listening to an album of pure rock, the kind that's become scarce lately. It’s immediately clear that Babel has little to do with the various trends of the moment, so if you're expecting shoegaze or dream pop references, you'd better look elsewhere. Here we’re talking about rock that often took on a granitic sound from the second half of the '90s, without leaving behind quieter and more melodic moments. Babel seems to fit perfectly into this kind of scene, with an album where the guitars often sound like a boulder crashing down on your head, and even those more melodic moments actually never lose the edge and grit that characterizes this entire work. The decision to sing in Italian is undoubtedly a bold one, though I admit that several times I wondered what effect these songs would have with an English voice. And I concluded that I wouldn’t necessarily have been more satisfied. In fact, I believe there is a lot of Italy, a lot of the provinces in this album, not so much because of the lyrics themselves but more due to the overall atmosphere that permeates the album: a continuous tension, a feeling of little comfort that seems to bring you right to the cold and foggy province of Lombardy from which the boys hail.