VIOLA DE SOTO

Surreal like the scene from Magnolia where frogs rain from the sky, fluid and super cool like Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Oceano is a grandiose postmodern pop album with elements of indie and dream pop, with a healthy dose of psychedelia sprinkled here and there. At times, it surprises with its almost absurd drift (like in the chorus of "In piedi sulle pinne," which riffs on a historic ad from the Carosello era for Negroni… there are so many stars…. Got it, right?) but in general, given the initial premise of an upside-down world (the fish have taken over the world (in the first track, La pesca degli umani), nothing else could be expected. Imaginative in its lyrics, Huomorales outdoes himself in the beautiful Tracheotomia, a lovely dreamy pop song that evokes a sort of Morrissey thrown into Il bar sotto il mare by Stefano Benni. Aquatic.