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Between Future and Fractures: the britpop heart of Piergiorgio Corallo’s “In via di sviluppo”
When a debut record sounds like both a confession and an architectural sketch, something rare happens: form and feeling collapse into one another. 'In via di sviluppo', the first full-length by italian multidisciplinary artist Piergiorgio Corallo, lives inside that collision. It’s a rock album that distrusts certainty, borrowing britpop’s melodic clarity only to distort it through an existential lens.
By The Global Verge5 months ago in Journal
A room built outward: listening to 'In via di sviluppo'
There are debuts that arrive like press conferences. This one walks in and sits down. 'In via di sviluppo' keeps its shoulders narrow, lets arrangement do the talking, and asks you to listen rather than react. Guitars are placed like walls, electronics run along the baseboards, and the voice keeps a straight line through the middle. If you wait for spectacle, you’ll miss the point. The surprise isn’t volume; it’s patience.
By The Global Verge5 months ago in Journal
