MARCO NEGRI
INCOERENTE

THE REVIEW

Here I am, reviewing the brand new single just released by the singer-songwriter Marco Negri jr. for the label Sorry mom!.

After "COME VA A FINIRE", a track with a bucolic and retro flavor, comes the sting of: "Incoerente", a song that definitely sticks in your mind after half a listen. Leaving aside the video, which might possibly leave the average listener a bit disoriented, let's instead keep our ears wide open to the track: direct, sincere, with verses and chorus that get stuck in your head.

A clear lyric that goes hand in hand with the melody and a vague "british" flavor that enriches the sound structure; if you really want to find a flaw, perhaps it's missing a production that pushes a bit more on a single that already, as it is, could easily be played on some Radio (even local ones....).

As I mentioned earlier, given the subtle british touch in the arrangement, it would have made sense to assign a string section to the chorus, which instead is pushed by a cold synth. Marco's singing is clear, bright and youthful; speaking previously of the lyrics, we can dwell on some interesting captions that create an echoing effect in the listener: "Conosci questa pioggia che non sa più render conto alla terra" (a metaphor, the rain that, even as it wets the soil, can’t make anything grow) just like two people who are together yet never really meet. And again: "Dal basso di un palazzo di vetro io ti vedo, ma è un'ombra", and "sui tavoli del bar c'è scritto siam due cuori in affitto". A poetics opening up to a range of clear and vibrant situations. Marco Negri explains love as it is: contradictory, unhealthy, thinly disguised, and yet it can go on forever, even without ever touching.

So if the first single: "Come va a finire?" hinted at a glimmer of hope despite the back and forth of unfinished stories and beloved ones, in this second single Negri suggests we're on different tracks, staying close, but never attached. "E' il tuo essere incoerente", and "sembra niente"?