Ásgeir – The Sky Is Painted Gray Today

Ásgeir presenta’The Sky Is Painted Gray Today’ Quattro inediti registrati nel 2019 a Hljodriti, Islanda, e completati negli ultimi mesi, un gradito ritorno per l’artista islandese tra i più popolari in patria che, ancora una volta, si affida alla collaborazione del padre, poeta, e di John Grant e Pétur Ben (per le traduzioni in inglese). ‘The Sky Is Painted Gray Today‘ contiene anche il brano ‘Sunday Drive’, che racconta uno spaccato di vita di Ásgeir : “Sunday Drive was written about a car accident I had when I was 7 years old. Every Sunday me and my family used to drive on top of a mountain close to the town where we lived and then get out of the car, walk around and enjoy the view. On the day of the accident my older sister was allowed to take pictures on a new camera that my mom and dad had recently bought but they didn’t trust me with it so I got upset and stayed in the car while they went out to take pictures. While I was upset waiting in the car I started playing with the gear shift and handbrake and suddenly the car started moving. It flew down the hill and flipped around a few times and was completely destroyed when it stopped. I crawled out pretty much uninjured, only needing four stitches on my head.”

Quattro deliziosi brani per questo bravissimo artista, I primi di chiara impronta folk, The Sky Is Painted Gray Today e Sister, una dolce e malinconica Out on the edge e per chiudere una bellissima Sunday drive, intensa e affascinante. Chitarra in accompagnamento alla toccante voce del cantante, il risultato è un EP delizioso e intimo.

MAURIZIO DONINI