Canzoni dell' Appartamento. Go buy it... now.

My music reviews go a little something like this: This album rocks the sweet spot. BUY IT! NOW! or perhaps: This band's contract should be revoked and they should be stoned... TO DEATH. So, seeing as that I have no talent for this whatsoever, I've requested the services of a music critic extraordinaire. Enjoy!
xo, Ris

Guest-reviewer: Voluptuous
Home Sweet Home
Canzoni dell' AppartamentoSby Morgan
(Mescal / Columbia) 2003

So you�re the singer/bassist/songwriter for one of the best Italian rock bands around (Bluvertigo) and married to the hottest, coolest Italian babe out there (Asia Argento)... what do you do?

How about a three year sabbatical. As a stay-home dad. OK, no problem. And then?

Well, then you could write and produce a solo album called Apartment Songs, spanning the three years spent in said apartment, a home you are about to leave. You could leave behind the samples and synths of your rock band and write simple, piano-based timeless melodies that drift around the room like so many cobwebs that cling to memories and emotions. You could produce it yourself and compose the string arrangements. You might even surprise your fans and the critics. Hell, you might even surprise yourself (although with an ego that large, it would be difficult).

You could write songs of innocence and despair: �Love is a burning flame / burning upside down�. Songs of heaven in cocktails, inventors, and your baby�s thoughts. Throw in an old Pink Floyd song ("If") and translate it into Italian ("Se"). You know, the usual stuff.

But that�s just one possibility, there may be many others. So what do you say to that?

Not bad. Not bad at all. Actually, quite fucking excellent. -V.

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