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THE REVIEW
It's not easy to be objective when commenting on the albums of Elisa, discussing her talents, whether they're appreciable or not. However, it is especially impossible to be objective when talking about this album. Perhaps because it was one of the first ones I bought, but above all because it is an album that greatly influenced me and is, consequently, the album I care about the most, the most important for me among those of Elisa and not just hers.
And it was thanks (?) to it that I began to discover the music and world of Elisa, who from that moment became one of the artists I love the most, if not The one (and I am not at all ashamed to admit it). But let's talk about the album and, above all, its beautiful title, fundamental to understanding its message. “Then comes the sun” …
A declaration of a poetics, of a way to react to the world and the darkness of life. It's no coincidence that Elisa records this album after the most profound and dense darkness of the multifaceted “Asile’s World”. Elisa is reborn and emerges from that darkness with these words “then comes the sun”, then comes the sun…
Her message is this, at least according to me: no matter how much rain there may be in our lives (be it the lost friendship of “Rainbow” or people's arrogance in “Fever”), there will come a moment when the sun arrives, a moment when we will be winners, not physically or materially, but morally, because moral victory is the most beautiful, the most important, the most precious. And the fact that this album represents spring is emblematic of a worldview. This is what I understood while listening to the music, reading the lyrics, falling in love with the voice: advice that, no matter how banal and humble, finds in humility and simplicity its greatest strengths (and not coincidentally the last song of the album is titled “Simplicity”…).
And humility can be found in the music, distinctly and deliberately opposed to those of “Asile’s World”, which makes the two albums opposites, representing two omnipresent entities, one darkness and the other a glimmer of light. The only song with sounds similar to those of the previous album is the beautiful “Time”, which perfectly captures the relentless, and therefore distressing, passage of time and also serves as the connecting element between the two albums.
Personally, it was impossible not to love songs like “Heaven out of hell”, a beautiful thank you to the mother, the only one who can make hell a paradise; or the famous “Dancing” … .
Unique and special…
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Then Comes The Sun is a deeply influential album for the reviewer, symbolizing Elisa’s emergence from darkness into light. The album’s theme revolves around hope, moral victory, and simplicity. It contrasts with Elisa’s earlier darker work, Asile’s World. Songs like “Heaven out of hell” and “Dancing” stand out as emotional highlights.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Elisa
Elisa (Elisa Toffoli) is an Italian singer-songwriter from Monfalcone (Friuli-Venezia Giulia). She debuted in the late 1990s with English-language pop-rock and later released both English and Italian material; she won the Sanremo Festival in 2001 with "Luce (Tramonti a Nord-Est)".26 Reviews
Other reviews
By e-bow
There isn’t a single flaw in this record, there isn’t a single ill-chosen track, there isn’t a single word out of place.
Overall, a melancholic album, but crossed by the certainty that after... after comes the sun.
By marcounali
Then Comes The Sun implies continuity, in the sense that life, one day, even without us, will continue to go on.
You can hear the music with no sounds, you can heal my heart without me knowing.
By desade
"Then Comes the Sun is a more than pleasant album, to be listened to with attention but also to be lived."
"Dancing is a piece of great impact where Elisa’s purely feminine sensitivity bursts out completely."
