Post Nebbia
Canale Paesaggi

In the beginning, there was a “I'm ruining myself for you”.

There's this little group, Post Nebbia, and they're some twenty-something-year-olds from Padua discovered by chance that I really like. In truth, the creative mind is solely that of Carlo Corbellini, and he does it all: lyrics, music, production... Even the videos on YouTube are almost done by him alone. But they're a band.

Contrary to what one might expect, their musical references are very well-known and almost unexpected for a kid/kids, like the Arctic Monkeys, the Beatles, some even say Tame Impala... but who cares about what one hears.

What is really nice is being able to read several interviews from which finally emerges a thinking mind, one of those little people that make you exclaim, Azz! and it's quickly clear that Corbellini is not just any fool, just listen to his songs.

The first album released in 2018, Prima stagione: an almost immediate pure love, it stayed among my listens for more than a week until it created a bit of a dependency, I say it timidly and not without a certain embarrassment... but honesty is sometimes important. What can I do if the melancholy that it exudes stuck to me like a fly on honey? And then the cover is wonderful, from a Venetian I expect something so pride-inducing.

This second album Canale Paesaggi, freshly released, I'm savoring it, discovering it truly only halfway since the singles released in recent months have created a certain expectation in me that wasn't disappointed Persone di Vetro, Televendite di Quadri and Vietnam, probably the most successful along with the previously unreleased closing track Nuoto sincronizzato, they provide a good summary of the proposed product: a concept narrating the highly alienating experience of television (but the discourse could easily be extended to the internet) also in its most horrid commercial and local variants and others, with the aggravating factor (for the "old ones") that it's a 21-year-old boy talking about it.

Contrary to popular belief, young people - those truly tough ones - have perfectly understood the social aspect of the communicative medium, and - unconsciously - can give a super stylish lesson to those who stopped questioning themselves long ago but are always ready to point the finger “...because today's youth...”.

Welcoming and comforting 70s/80s atmospheres, pop at times a bit funky and a bit new wave, decidedly captivating bass and little keyboards between segments of regional news, commercials, a composed and intelligent yet resigned and perpetually boxed young voice, never pretentious, in which no exaggerated banality or fashionable superficiality is glimpsed, the kind that makes you frown. In one word: Delightful.

This is how it begins:

“All day on the couch / What would Freud say about us?”