Luca Carboni
Sputnik

LA RECENSIONE

Essentially a continuation of "Pop-up" (same producer) with the electronic discourse taken to its extreme consequences, completely eliminating acoustic and electric guitars. From a textual point of view, love as always, but also the theme of pop and youth.

Preceded by the single "Una grande festa", "Sputnik", Luca Carboni's twelfth album of unreleased tracks, was released on June 8. Nine entirely electronic songs for a space journey, as mentioned. It starts with "Una grande festa" which, both musically and aesthetically in the video, recalls "Luca lo stesso" from the album released two years and eight months earlier. It continues with "2" (after Raf, another artist names a song with this title) and with "Amore digitale", the first strong track of the album after the opening one. Still talking about love and the web as in "Luca lo stesso", Carboni speaks of digital love that can move faster, connected to wi-fi with the heart. "Io non voglio" was written with Calcutta, who initially proposed it to him with guitar in a very acoustic version, while "Ogni cosa che tu guardi" is another strong chorus of the album. If we think in terms of vinyl, side A ends with an overall positive balance, with an alternation of more successful songs and others less so. Side B, also thinking in terms of vinyl, opens with "I film d'amore", perhaps the most accomplished of the album, with an insistent chorus that invokes AlexanderPlatz, already mentioned by the singer-songwriter in a song from 2011. The song here conveys the sound once again branded by Michele Iorfida and slightly reminiscent of "Dieci minuti" from the previous album. Then comes "L'alba", another fairly successful song, and "Prima di partire", before the final track, "Sputnik", rarefied, suspended, and without rhythm, much like the last track of "Pop-up", "Invincibili". A "space" track that is the only one written entirely by Luca Carboni and raises the level of an album that, in the opinion of this writer, has something less than the previous one. The electronic binge perhaps penalized the work and the overcrowding of authors (the aforementioned Calcutta, then Alessandro Raina, Dario Faini, and Christian Rigano for the music, just to name the most present) makes the album a bit inconsistent.