As Messiness moves ever closer to the release of their debut album, which is due later this year, their latest sonic stepping stone is “Fatally,” a finessed indie song that arrives with all the hallmarks of a future classic. After all, if a classic is a song that you remember first hearing half a lifetime ago and which feels fresh, timeless, and rewarding every time you give it a spin, I don’t doubt that “Fatally” will soon fall into that category; just give it time.
Written in Liverpool and discussing those unfortunate souls who find themselves stuck in the wreckage of their past, unable to break free and move on, it is a song that shimmers with the hazy, halcyon days of that city’s beat era pop, as well as the Brit-pop and indie booms that followed. And that is Max Raffa’s trick here, being able to take something from across various eras and forge those elements together into a classic pop sound, and a quintessentially English one at that.
Raffa is joined by Rosario Lo Monaco on guitars, Filippo La Marca on keyboards, Giovanni Calella on bass guitar, and Luca Anello on drums, a posse that proves that music incressingly has fewer and fewer geographical demarkations, after all an Italian indie band who sound like the beating heart of Liverpool pop is only something that you would find in this inter connected, modern age. But whether you find yourself in the unfashionable end of Milan or wandering the fringes of Merseyside docklands, similar events and experiences, thoughts and themes will always shape the songwriter’s pen. After all, we are all human.
And for all its deep and dark theme, this is a shimmering pop gem, one that is both timeless and timely, a clever song that ticks boxes for all manner of pop fad and sonic fashion but which seems to float out of reach of those who would seek to box and label it in neat genres or convenient pigeon holes.
And if that isn’t the definition of a classic in the making, then I don’t know what is!
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