Review: Noemi -"Nostalgia" (track for track)

Noemi, in over fifteen years of career, has gone through many transformations. New paths, new directions, climbs and descents, successes and more complex moments.

The firm point of his production has always been his unmistakable and scratchy voice that is always capable of exciting and involving. With “Nostalgia”, Noemi embarks on a new artistic journey, putting his enveloping stamp at the service of a contemporary pop enriched by contamination and emotional nuances.

His seventh studio album oscillates between introspective reflection and a sound dimension that embraces blues, songwriting and electronics, tracing his new personal and stratified musical geography.

The nostalgia evoked in the title is not a regret, but a warm memory like a walk by the sea.

A feeling that illuminates the present through the experience filter. The concept of the album develops along this common thread, supported by a production that alternates enveloping ballad with more rhythmic songs. Collaborating with prominent authors and producers, Noemi finishes a project that places it in a more current musical dimension, without denying the vocal identity that has made it recognizable.

“If you fall in love with you”, presented in Sanremo 2025, it is the emblem of this transition: a song that plays with the dualism between passion and vulnerability, between desire and self -loss, with a sound aesthetic that recalls the new school of the Italian Pop pop. Mahmood and Blanco's writing, combined with Michelangelo's production, frames the piece in an essential and incisive guise, enhancing the intense interpretation of the singer.

Other significant moments of the album emerge in “Nostalgia” (feat. Neffa), where the dialogue between present and past develops on a base with a soul flavor. However, the cantate of Neffa does not seem fully convinced with respect to Noemi's vocality. “Vertical forest” (feat. Carl Brave) pushes the singer towards more urban sounds, leaving room for a raw and direct narrative. “All the rest is boredom”, with the participation of Tony Effe, he ventures into unpublished territories for the artist, looking for a balance between immediacy and emotional depth.

The textual system of the album proves consistent in telling a path of growth, even without always finding particularly innovative melodic solutions. The production works on refined stratifications, but sometimes it risks channeling in formulas already explored, without daring to the end.

A light and pleasant album, enriched by intense and exciting moments that gives us back an artist with a capital “A” in the Italian music scene.

Track for track

If you fall in love you die
(Written by Alessandro Mahmoud, Riccardo Fabbriconi, Michele Zocca / composed of Michele Zocca, Alessandro Mahmoud, Riccardo Fabbriconi / produced by Michelangelo / Archi recorded at Budapest Scoring Orchestra directed by Peter Illies)

The song, competing at the 75th edition of the Sanremo Festival, reflects on the sacrifices and choices related to falling in love. The song tells the difficulty of trusting the other and the vulnerability that derives from it, comparing the falling in love with an inner “small death”, serene and total. Love, stronger than fears and insecurities, is not limited to romantic relationships but also includes motherhood, maximum expression of unconditional affection.

Everything else is boredom (feat. Tony Effe)
(Written by Franco Califano / composed of Francesco Del Giudice / Produced by Enzo Campagnoli, Drillionaire)

The cover of “everything else is boredom” is the perfect expression of nostalgia combined with Romanity; There is all the poetry born from the most complex realities told with the frankness and simplicity typical of the Roman singer -songwriter.

End
(Written by Lorenzo Urciullo, Jacopo Etorre / composed of Francesco Catitti, Jacopo Etorre, Lorenzo Urciullo / produced by Katoo)

“The end” is a song, which sees Colapesce among the authors, with light and 70s sounds but with a very poetic text in which memories merge to the imaginary of a typical nature of the singer -songwriter.

Nostalgia (feat. Neffa)
(Written by Giovanni Pellino / composed by Taketo Gohara, Giovanni Pellino / produced by Taketo Gohara / drums played by Niccolò Fornabaio / Basso played by Giuseppe La Grutta / Piano and Synth played by Mirko Maria Matera / guitars played by Lorenzo Fornabaio / organs and vibraphone played by Alberto Bazzoli / Synth and percussion played by Taketo Gohara / Arrangement and direction Tellus Orchestra Stefano Nanni)

In “Nostalgia” the collaboration with Neffa returns, already appeared among the authors of other songs of the singer -songwriter, who joins Noemi adding to the shadow to the title track of the album.

One hundred thousand nights
(Written by Veronica Scopelliti, Davide Simonetta, Geneva Lubrano, Riccardo Schiara / composed of Davide Simonetta, Geneva Lubrano, Riccardo Schiara / produced by Dav, Vvenice)

The result of the collaboration with Geneva and Arashi, “one hundred thousand nights” is a song Uptempo with the gaze turned towards the future and new perspectives, letting go of the past and uncertainties.

Luna lounge
(Written by Edwyn Roberts, Stefano Marletta, Michele Zocca / composed of Edwyn Roberts, Stefano Marletta, Michele Zocca / produced by Michelangelo, Edwyn Roberts)

“Luna liar” is a trace with soul and r & b sounds, a disillusioned story that echoes memories of a past and a colored time of hopes now far away.

Useless night
(Written by: Veronica Scopelliti, Giorgio then, Pietro Paroletti / composed by Pietro Paroletti / Product by Golden Years)

The meeting of Noemi with Giorgio then and Golden Years in “Useless night” is the perfect opportunity to combine the multimfaccecked songwriting skills of the three, in an acoustic song with delicate and dreamy shades.

Vertical forest (feat. Carl Brave)
(Written by Carlo Courage, Veronica Scopelliti / composed of Carlo Courage / produced by Carl Brave)

In the penultimate trace, Noemi finds his friend of always Carl Brave. The lucky duo returns with a new musical nuance in a ballad showing an unpublished vibration by telling the different dimensions of the relationship between two people, and the sharing that underlies everything.

Dirty word
(Written by Davide Simonetta, Riccardo Schiara, Paolo Antonacci, Alessandro Raina / composed of Davide Simonetta, Riccardo Schiara, Paolo Antonacci, Alessandro Raina / produced by Katoo)

The song that closes the album is a hymn to lightness and complicity, to overcome the boundaries and to know how to always question themselves by discovering new sides of oneself.

Score: 7.00

To listen immediately

If you fall in love with you – the end – dirty word

To skip immediately

A disc that slips, lets you listen and in the end you would like to listen to it again …

Tracklist

If you fall in love with it – vote 7.00
Everything else is boredom (feat. Tony Effe) – Vote 6.50
The end – 7.00 vote
Nostalgia (feat. Neffa) – 7.00 vote
One hundred thousand nights – 7.00 vote
Luna Bugiarda – Vote 6.75
Useless night – Vote 6.75
Vertical forest (feat. Carl Brave) – Vote 6.75
Wonderland – Vote 7.00