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Elektrika

Let’s be honest, Torrentz is also a great site for full free listens; out of a hundred things downloaded, five are listened to, fifteen remain on standby, and eighty are disposable fetishes.

The deal is simple: if you consume something by listening to it, then you must buy it. It's not a written agreement; it's a pact to avoid being like the people you hate.

It may seem like the biggest spiel in history, but no, it’s just a way to write something before the review.

The album in question is Elektrika

An album hi/lo fi between dark and minimal vintage electro. An Italian singer-songwriter electronic that inevitably makes you listen more to the lyrics (not just those, obviously); the reason is that, as Italians, we understand the lyrics immediately (thanks to the cat, you might say); my yardstick for judgment is: more than 2 love songs = bad album (to say the least). There aren’t any here, so at the end of the first listen, I was ecstatic (and fresh from the alchemical situation); it talks about armed, wealthy, bored youths, about insomnia and demons, about pushing beyond the limits of the speakable.

Following a first not-so-fantastically arranged track, six magnificent songs follow. Between Battiato and Bat for Lashes, between Lykke Li and Ladytron.

Four tracks are a must-hear to get an idea of new, fresh music and lyrics.

1 demons that pass

2 the dream

3 drift

4 elliptical trajectories

If I hadn't typed Elektrika to see what came up on a free listening site that many would like to shut down, I would have never discovered a little gem of Italian indie electro.

p.s. I later bought the aforementioned tracks on iTunes for 4 euros and some change, so don’t talk to me about piracy.