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1995. The height of the Brit-pop era.
In Italy, two very important albums emerge, each in their own way. "Germi" by Afterhours, a milestone of Italian rock, and "Acidi e basi" an explosive debut by Bluvertigo, from Monza, led by the much loved/hated Morgan "Marco Castoldi".
It is the beginning of the chemical trilogy. A journey of three albums in which Bluvertigo will synthesize what they call "Blob Rock" everything that is good: from new wave to dark, from the technopop of Depeche Mode to a more cheerful Battiato, from Duran Duran to Bowie and so on.
It's impossible to categorize this album, as well as the subsequent ones, but tracks like "Iodio" with its sectional structure, "L.S.D" with its spatial sound; the anger of "L'eretico", the ballads "I Still love you" and "Complicità" (cover of Here is the house by Depeche Mode), are rare in Italy. Funky bass and wild guitar like Andy Summer of the Police, surrounded by keyboards, synths, and sax (à la Bowie).
The work on the lyrics is fabulous, so original and unique. A character like Morgan can be greatly disliked, but as Freak Antoni says, "In Italy, there's no pleasure in being intelligent," and aside from some slight naivety in this debut, in the following two, they will be even more so.
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