Velvet
Nella lista delle cattive abitudini

I know I won't be able... To protect you from everything, but I won't move, even if the world collapses, and when I can no longer stay by your side, I would have this moment, life in an instant, I already know that I won’t be able to, to protect you from everything, but I won’t move even if the world collapses, and when I can no longer stay by your side, I will keep this moment, life in an instant.... I’m here with words to, to not tell you that, it won’t be easy, to resist

I begin my review of "Nella lista delle cattive abitudini", the latest album by the Velvet, a Roman band famous to many (alas) because of the song "BoyBand", with a magnificent line taken from the track "Crollasse pure il mondo".

If your reaction upon reading the name of the reviewed band was "Let's see what kind of crap album these four dummies have produced", get out of here, of those Velvet, the ones you understand from "Verso Marte", there is no trace, there hasn’t been any for 5 years, since "10 Motivi" was released.

Now let's talk about "Nella Lista Delle Cattive Abitudini". A truly fascinating album; an adjective I had never used for an album, but I find myself genuinely fascinated by this work, a angry, dark, intimate album that has totally lost the lightheartedness of the pioneers "Verso Marte" and "Cose Comuni".

Many the themes addressed by the quartet from Rome: our political class, the impossibility of acting in front of the evils of our time, a father's love and fears for his child, the disinformation in our country, the reality slammed in our face relegating our dreams to something unattainable up to the ongoing pain for the loss of a mother.

The quality of "Nella Lista Delle Cattive Abitudini" is high, electronics meets pop-rock sounds, giving rise to an original and never banal sound, biting songs like "I Nuovi Emergenti" and ballads like "Tutti a Casa" and "Crollasse Pure il Mondo" create the right mix for an album that combines beautiful, almost poetic lyrics with current sounds.

Now, years later, many maybe not knowing the true story of Velvet, won't know that their choices led them to be cut out of the music business; their desire to create their music without having to abide by major rules led them to create their own label, thus becoming totally independent from others.

Well, almost 10 years later Velvet has undergone a musical evolution similar to that of their idols Blur, carving out a small space in the Italian independent scene.

One last thing, I invite all those who still can't dissociate Velvet from the stereotype of a puppet band to listen to these tracks and try to erase "BoyBand" from their minds at least for a few moments.