Leda – Marocco Speed (Album – Leda & Il Piccio Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Marocco speed” is the second album by the Italian formation Leda. The work was released three years after the debut opus.
Content: “Marocco Speed” sounds like a Dark-Rock interpretation with Italian, female, vocals on top. The work is driven by powerful guitar play and refined with electronic arrangements. The songs are a mix of rage and melancholia.
+ + + : The main strength of the work is singer Serena Abrami. She injects a true soul into the band, switching in between enraged passages and sweet vocals. Sound-wise the darkest song of the album “Femme Flow” is my personal favorite one.
– – – : The album features only 8 songs which is not that much. But the main point is that the album is missing a true climax.
Conclusion: Leda is not exactly setting the world alight but I can imagine this will possibly please Italian fans of Dark-Rock music.
Best songs: “Femme Flow”.
Rate: 6.
Artist: www.ledamusic.com / www.facebook.com/leda.laband
Label: www.facebook.com/ilpicciorecords
About Leda
Leda is an Italian band that mixes post-punk, dark rock and indie pop. Discogs lists the line-up as Serena Abrami, Enrico Vitali and Fabrizio Baioni.
The band debuted with the album “Memorie Dal Futuro”, issued on CD by Il Piccio Records in 2019. “Marocco Speed” followed on the same label in 2022, in a CD edition and a promotional CDr edition. On that record Giorgio Baioni plays bass and sings, Fabrizio Baioni handles drums and electronics, and Enrico Vitali plays electric guitar and e-bow and adds vocals. Giovanni Versari mastered the album and Marco Amato designed the artwork.
Side-Line has not covered the band before this review, and no Bandcamp page for “Marocco Speed” could be confirmed at the time of writing.
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