Blucobalto
Buona Fortuna Mr.Gorsky

THE REVIEW

This is the first review I write for this site and I hope you like it and find it at least a bit intriguing. Since it would be boring to always talk about the usual famous bands, I want to try with my reviews to introduce musical realities that are still underground, both positive and not. In fact, the album in question that I am about to describe is still almost unknown.

"Buona fortuna Mr.Gorsky", a title that cites the phrase by Commander Neil Armstrong upon returning from the moon landing, is the second mini CD by Blucobalto, a band from Reggio Calabria, a new promise of Italian pop. I happened to hear this band by chance during an afternoon rotation of video clips on Match Music, and was quite bewildered by the cloying and banality of the single "Dove sei" and, thinking it was a new catchy tune in the style of Lost and Dari, I did some research on the band. Fortunately, I was wrong since Blucobalto is still an underground and little-known group. Indeed, their video is not in heavy rotation and you might catch it accidentally, although they are slowly moving in the circuit since they have performed as opening acts for, coincidentally, Lost and Dari.

The mini CD, composed of three tracks (each worse than the last), is truly ridiculous, glossy pop somewhere between Fall Out Boy (the bass riff in "Dove sei" is a blatant plagiarism of one of their songs) and Finley. In short, music created in the studio to cash in and fill their pockets. I hope my words serve to boycott this travesty to prevent Blucobalto or pseudo-bands like this from achieving the success they hope for, aided by producers who orchestrate projects for this purpose, behind the backs of people who truly know how to play and compose good songs and have been performing live for years (not in playback like the small bands on MTV).

May Blucobalto forgive me but, with all due respect, step aside, and may producers finally invest in more professional and mature music and help true artists.