This is truly a fantastic album. Fabi has always been talented, and I liked him already in albums like "La cura del tempo" or "Novo mesto," which marked an early maturation compared to the first three albums; however, with "Ecco," you can really feel the transition to definitive artistic maturity, arriving at the ninth album, one that seems to improve the more it ages. A complete, finished, and inspired record, both in the excellent lyrics and in the melodies, as well as in the arrangements, rich and highly refined, as perhaps they had never been before 2012; suspended between the verve of an intelligent pop song and delicate, melancholic, whispered songwriting, following in the wake of the genre in the '90s and '00s, Fabi here achieves a perfect compromise between catchiness and "artistic" beauty, with songs that span various nuances, giving the album that sense of wholeness and attained maturity. There are some beautiful things: from the clever irony of "Io" and "Indipendente," to the killer melody of the strings in "Elementare" (with a beautiful text), to that irresistible gem of "I cerchi di gesso," pure pop-rock songwriting branded "2000s" in sound, up to the splendid title track, which in "structure" somewhat reminded me of certain "explosive" songs by Buckley Jr. Or again "Le cose che non abbiamo detto," another gem. This "Ecco" is a great album, perhaps the peak of a solid discography.
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