Scarabeo
Pour Ellae

Peculiar and enjoyable album that seeks thematic rather than musical continuity. The sounds change a lot from one track to another while still maintaining a certain lightness and catchiness. Common to all the tracks is the tendency to have atypical choruses, and for this reason perhaps less effective, where the lyrics sometimes change radically from one section to another. Another aspect is the wordplay with the name of the girl to whom the song is dedicated. The lyrics are very interesting and personal, even if the listener, precisely for this reason, may find it difficult to relate. Attention should be paid to the lyrics and melodies rather than the acoustic quality of the various instruments or the voice.

The album starts with "F.A.R.N.I.A.", a slow and romantic ambient track in a mix of English and French, followed by "Me" which I would define as rock-pop in English where one can appreciate a decent vocal range and beautiful guitars, "Luisa" has a Spanish flavor with almost dark verses and a nice carefree chorus in Italian, "Aller" is difficult to define (at least for me) and has a structure rich in bridges, breaks, and specials in French, "Snow" almost seems like a Christmas song although the lyrics talk about something else, enriched by the second female voice of Era, "Mail Me" splits the album in two with a decided increase in bpm and decibels and the typical energy of punk, "Soie" is a French reggae with an atypical structure that almost shows two distinct songs in one, the first more orderly, the second bouncing more freely over the base, "Can’t You See" seems to imitate Elvis or directly the Baseballs with the carefree alternation of a deep voice and falsetto over an important bass, "Ti penso" is a light Italian song that in the verses reminds me of Celentano, "Mau" reprises 80's sounds (it reminds me of "Wonderful Life" by Black) but using French and it's perhaps the track on which the voice feels most at ease, "Derya" returns to English rock and is perhaps the track where the singing is less "scholastic", it closes with "Close Your Eyes" which winks at country atmospheres but here, despite the help of Era's second voice, the result is a bit dull.

Overall, I think it is difficult not to find at least one track that satisfies one's tastes (regardless of the listener) and equally complicated to manage to appreciate them all.

Worth mentioning is the creation of a customized illustration for each track representing the girl/muse in a stylized version.