Sex With Giallone
We had a room at Tropicana Motel

THE REVIEW

The Sex With Giallone are a Bolognese quintet that debuted in 2015 with "We had a room at Tropicana Motel," released on Trovarobato.

It’s a pity that the group, formed in high school, broke up even before releasing it, with the five members involved in their respective solo projects.

The tracks in question were born between 2010 and 2012, then underwent a long mixing process. The peculiarity of all six episodes that compose the album is the absence of staticity, which translates into a continuous structural metamorphosis.

This is how "Latino Cheat" (the best track according to the writer) combines drone and punk-blues with raga reminiscences; additionally interesting is the use of a sped-up sample of "Enola Gay" by OMD. Then there's "Springtime Children" which opens reassuringly with dreamlike guitar and field recordings, then continues with a dark rhythm viscerally connected to sax and distorted voice, and closes with a psychedelic tail.

After the initial two tracks, the album tends to flatten out, but without completely losing quality.

"Long Tall Sally" is a grotesque cabaret with a new wave influence; the mini-suite in two parts "Glaswegian Tanz" focuses more on the vocal aspect, both male and female, both in the foreground and more hidden; at the end of the final "Man's Picken," after a first claustrophobic and experimental part, fragments of Stereolab-style pop can be glimpsed.

The SWG's Tropicana Motel is an harmonic cocktail of hard-to-categorize that presents souls seemingly distant from each other.

Among the best Italian releases of the year.