La Crus
Crocevia

LA RECENSIONE

Creating a cover is truly a difficult task. It is even more so if, as often happens, the chosen songs are already masterpieces in their original version.
Paradoxically, one should rework second-tier pieces to find the right idea that transforms them into something special.

Instead, the Milanese duo chooses some of the best pieces from the past and recent Italian musical production, causing disasters and messes. The electronic arrangements chosen for certain pieces, superfluous in their artificial baroque nature, are absolutely irritating ("Tutto fa un po' male", "Un giorno dopo l'altro").
"Annarella" by CCCP is stuffed with a bland beat that removes the raw melancholy of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti's interpretation.

The overall impression on the album is that the addition of sounds, samples, and whatnot is merely superficial, there is no true reworking of the musical fabric. The idea is always the same, and the artificiality of the sounds undermines the beauty of the pieces.
The episodes where the touch is lighter are spared ("Estate", "La costruzione di un amore") while the most serious misdeed is committed against Paolo Conte, whose splendid "Via con me" is ruined with an unacceptable accelerated rhythm that deserves a lawsuit.

La Crus, who in their first album already offered their beautiful reinterpretation of "Il vino" and "Angela", should return to the naturalness of the debut, emphasizing the vocals more than the cold digital sounds. "Giugno '73" followed precisely this path but remained an isolated episode within an album to forget.