Tag: Alaska Blue

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Alaska Blue Shares Brooding and Groovy “White Spaces”

Over the past couple of years, I’ve spilled a bit of ink covering the Italian indie duo and JOVM mainstays Alaska Blue — singer/songwriter Elisabeta Giordano and musician Davide Cast. The duo recently released their third full-length album, personal troubles are public issues last week.

personal trouble are public issues’ latest single “White Spaces” is a brooding, deeply introspective tune that sees the band blending elements of synth pop, indie soul and soul, featuring a strutting and sultry groove and shimmering synths paired with Giordano’s soulful delivery and the duo’s uncanny knack for catchy hooks. The result is a song that’s perfect for restless, late night drives and makeout sessions while channeling the likes of Geowulf, Still Corners and Tan Cologne among others.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Alaska Blue Shares Slow-Burning and Dreamy “Blue Shelter”

Emerging Italian indie duo Alaska Blue — singer/songwriter Elisabeta Giordano and musician Davide Cast — will be releasing their full-length debut, the eight-song Under the weather, an effort that sees the duo establishing a slow-burning, lightly produced and sparse take on pop centered around Giordano’s warm and soulful vocals.

According to the Italian duo, Under the weather‘s latest single, the slow-burning, Francesco Roncalli-proudced “Blue Shelter” is one of the most produced songs on their soon-to-be released album with the song being built around the harmonizing around the main melodic vocal line paired with delay and reverb pedaled bluesy guitar lines, atmospheric synths, and gently padded percussion. While serving as a silky and dreamy base for Giordano’s effortlessly soulful delivery, the end result is a dreamy song full of aching longing

The duo explain that “Blue Shelter” is “about the struggle of expressing emotions and the inability to explain exactly what we feel inside. That is what inevitably makes the protagonist of the song feel misunderstood and alone.”