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THE REVIEW
"Grass hurts you if you smoke it without style"... My God! How can you not fall in love with someone who says something like that. Guys, open your ears wide because with this group an alternative and original path for the fate of Italian pop has opened.
Having reached their third work, Baustelle have further confirmed their creativity and originality with the right doses of irony, acidity, ambiguity, and graceful choices in the arrangements. It is, however, a Concept Album, meaning a series of songs that tell a story (just like "Storia di un impiegato" by Maestro De André), the idea came from the various rejections the band received when proposing themselves to some Italian directors as soundtrack composers. But we thank every single rejection because it brought about a work that is something new but also reveals reminiscences belonging to the great songwriters of the '70s-'80s (Gaetano, Battiato, etc.).
Those who are not fans of the genre should refrain from listening, for everyone else... an unmissable and emotionally unstable album!
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Baustelle’s third album, La Malavita, stands out as a unique and original Italian pop concept album. It combines irony, sharp lyrics, and creative arrangements, drawing on influences from iconic 70s and 80s Italian songwriters. Inspired by soundtrack rejections, the album tells a compelling story and offers an emotionally rich experience, recommended for fans of alternative Italian pop.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Baustelle
Italian band from Montepulciano led by songwriter Francesco Bianconi with vocalist Rachele Bastreghi, known for literate lyrics and a blend of orchestral and electronic pop.36 Reviews
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By Lazzaroblu
Baustelle create valuable, substantial pop music where the lyrics are significant, at times harsh, necessary, never banal.
'La malavita' is a passionate reaction to conformity, to a brutal vulgarity, a child of development but not of progress.
By Ghemison
An album both musically and poetically darker and harder.
If the whole album refers to the dark Byronian awareness... this song lightens the mood with huge doses of irony.
By Torre Ste
The lyrics, which talk about the underworld in all its forms and facets, are poetic, committed, melodic, and literary.
"Perché una ragazza d’oggi può uccidersi?", capable of captivating you and making you realize that this is a great band.
By EricJude
I watch it from start to finish, mesmerized, the melody is perfect, Bianconi’s voice as well, plus add that stunning girl who is Rachele Bastreghi.
Soft, delicate but also dark and shamelessly true. They don’t indulge in chatter and syrupiness like Ramazzotti, nor in screams and explosions of anger like Hard Rock, they are simple.
By Taurus
"Baustelle’s style is very elegant and orchestral pop-rock, full of cultured references."
"Ten songs that are ten frescoes, each with a story or character behind it and as many scenarios."
