Damiano David wrote a diary about his fears with sincerity cut into meat

• Måneskin’s frontman Damiano David was released on May 16, his first solo album, Funny Little Fears

• The album provides an honest insight into the singer’s interior world, with a variety of styles in it

Who wouldn’t remember the moment when Måneskin made the stage with noble simplicity At the Eurovision Song Contest the cool, Zitti e buoni with your hit? This momentum four years ago was sufficient to fly the band to the gate of the world. Although rockers have been on a smaller break today to make everyone’s own way, the frontman, Damiano David He didn’t take a little back from the pace, just down the world to speak to us in his own voice.

The 26 -year -old singer has now decided to undress the « Glamrock icon » tag, and instead stands with a shocking sincerity, beautiful musical delicacy, and meat texts to show off a whole new side. What we have barely seen so far: the uncertain man who is afraid, who is asking, who looks back, who dares to feel, who tries to understand the sounds in his head, not by the way, who is an excellent songwriter.

A map of “funny little fears”

David’s debut solo album released on May 16, a Funny Little Fears Even with his title, he commands a smaller stop. On the one hand, it is ironic because what is funny about fear? Nothing. But then we understand that this is just as if Damiano looks back at his own trauma with a kind of forgiving, bitter sweet smile. Fear here is no longer a demon, but a friend who has been living in us for a long time to not want to drive away, just understand.

The album is full of gently dosed pain, the 14 songs are almost diary through the listener on this emotional map, where suppression, mourning, emptying, anger and acceptance are all separate stations, but this is not a coincidence.

I would describe this album as the emotional diary of my last year. Writing helped overcome certain emotional blocks and anxiety and made it possible to show a personal and musical side that is important to me Said Damiano David from the album, whose sound is much clearer than we have been used to based on Måneskin’s work so far, and it is difficult to box.

Sometimes it bends in rock, sometimes indie pop, and electronic and acoustic elements also alternate, so sometimes it feels like we are in a completely different room where the lighting is much dull and the walls are not postpars, but old, yellowed photos.

Alone in the noise

The album in the Voices Open and what an overture it is! The song that Damiano David literally kicks the door in the word, a troubled yet disciplined song about the rustling sounds and thoughts that are buzzing in our heads and not let us rest, wherever we go. This is a cry in an empty space that echoes a long time, but then we slow down a bit with a heartbreaking ballad. THE Next Summer The heart of the album is one of the most painful pieces that Damiano ruthlessly tears our hearts. The singer’s father also appears in the video clip, which may even further enhance this already strong personal charge. Bitter, beautiful and hurt, and then we will return to the thicker melodies again Zombie ladywith.

We might even have a dance to this, but for some reason the grotesque pictures of the text and the driving of the music make it as much as we were in a nightmare. David with this song evoked Tim Burton’s world in a modern robe: a love story in the afterlife comes to us with fire, water, and passion. The subsequent The Bruise – in which the English singer-actressTo Suki Waterhouse He contributed – then starts another slowdown. This song is restrained and airy, dominated by a kind of foggy minimalism musically. There is not much to do with it, but what we hear is perfectly serving the sensitive world of the text, and Damiano’s vocals are excellently resonated with Suki’s fragile presence.

The row of ballads in the Sick of MySelf He carries it on. With this beautifully orchestrated song, Damiano David guides us into the deepest panties of anxiety and self -ripping, not fine. The title itself is eloquent: this song is about the days when someone can no longer bear their own company, and as a remedy, another person is redeemed In Angel We’ll find out more. Although we could interpret this composition as a typical love confession at first, it is actually misleading. If we eat better, a darker story unfolds behind the ominous melodies and the lyrics, because this angel has no wings nor a gloria, and instead has a vicious grin (« Devilish grin ») and it appears as a redeemer for the singer. It is the contradiction that makes the song truly disturbing but still memorable.

THE Tango We turn on the pace again a bit, but there is no question that Damiano would call us to dance. This is just another diversion. The singer actually dances with his own fears, anxieties and pain, alone, alone, as he turns into a song in his sorrow and then turns back with a bitter sweet smile from the edge of the stage. The eighth place on the album Born with the Broken Heart Even the subtitle of the album could be, because in this song Damiano completely peels the roles to show the uncertainty and self -accusation of his heart, the pain of emotional inaccessibility. Even the song itself builds like a slow heartbeat: at first, dull and distant, then becomes louder than someone realizes that his or her own pain could no longer be tolerated in silence.

With the young American speaker, D4VD common Tangerine He has a pleasantly thought in a dreamlike space. On the album, this is probably one of the most extraordinary songs that came from another dimension. And there are indeed two separate worlds in this surprisingly great duet, as the sound and style of the two singers are completely different, yet they complement each other perfectly, and this contrast gives the song essence. But Mars Maybe even more dreamy. This is a social criticism of a loving song where electronic noises and loops work particularly well. Damiano already paints a critical picture of the present society in the first lines, where the music industry is exploited (« oh no, rock ‘n roll has died again) and where even the air can be bought ( » Someone Bough the Rights to Oxygen) and then tell us that we do not have to escape the world, to whom we stick to.

One of the most emotional and most most energized songs of the album is the The First Timewhich confronts the overwhelming power of love with self -destruction, pointless search in the world, and inner emptiness. This is a composition that at the same time disrupts and stains our hearts, and the arrangement fits perfectly: it builds slowly at the beginning, and by the end it almost breaks out of emotions. And when we screamed all emotions into the world, the most cynical moment of the album can come. THE Perfect Life He mocks superficial relationships by painting Damiano a beautiful, dreamlike yet cold and empty world. The text is particularly suffocating, but in the end one realizes that he may not be bad, just looking for love in the wrong place.

Made with the work of Labyrinth producer In Silverlin It is no longer the pain dominated, it is more of a kind of calm than when the sun appears for the first time after the storm. The thirteenth song of the album is a reassuring, hopeful song about peace after difficulty, passing away pain and new beginnings. The last one arriving Solitude (No One Understands ME) It’s not just a closure. This is the most nonsense moment of the album in which Damiano, in addition to lining his entirely ordinary yet real fears, admits that loneliness does not have to be an enemy.

Sometimes the silence is louder

THE Funny Little Fears He doesn’t want to conquer with hits. He wants us to stop, listen, and cry if necessary. A mature, sensitive, brave, slow -acting and moisturizing album that does not have to be listened to, but heard, as Damiano David lets see that he is afraid. Sometimes from the past, sometimes from the future, sometimes from itself, but that’s okay. And that’s why it works. Because our fears – if we dare to face them – are much less scary.