PIQUED JACKS
Synchronizer

The Piqued Jacks are pure energy.

Just by reading the description in the biographies available online, the Piqued Jacks, a project born in the mid-2010s in our Tuscany, seem to be anything but a typically Italian musical expression.

In March 2021, it's the turn of "Synchronizer," the new album by the band released by INRI (Il Nuovo Rumore Italiano), a definition almost pioneering compared to the current publication.

The album is produced by figures like Brett Shaw (who has already worked with Florence + The Machine) and Julian Emery, who in Britain, a land with which this band is indissolubly hyperconnected, has already worked for the debut of Nothing But Thieves, as well as for numerous acts in the pop-rock scene.

Synchronizer is a melancholic dive starting from the past, but with current harmonies, opening a wide reflective glimpse towards the present and the future from the heights where the flock of birds that inspires the concept soars, supported by never invasive keyboards.

In synergy with the need to take flight, several tracks show an inclination towards high notes, where the singer "E-King" (alias Andrea Liguori) seems to feel more at ease, as demonstrated by the singles "Every Day Special" and "Fire Brigade," which in the choruses, indeed, open up to a global and emotional vision.

The challenge seized and widely won by the band is to approach melodically a serious and professional rock attitude, with a more refined, mature, and clean sound, the latter factor not to be overlooked, compared to what our local rock scene is getting us used to, almost annihilating.

When it comes to alternative indie realities (or allegedly such, since this term is now worn out), one should not disdain inspirations from elsewhere, accepting to let ourselves be carried away into the imagery of landscapes and related thoughts distant from us; and with "Synchronizer," the Piqued Jacks, taking flight, manage to do so in an almost impeccable manner.