SHE’S ANALOG - No Longer, Not Yet

It's not so much for the stylistic territory the Italian band's second album moves within – jazz and experimental rock – as for the remake-remodel attitude driving the three musicians – Stefano Calderano (guitar, percussion), Luca Sguera (piano, Prophet, percussion) and Giovanni Iacovella (drums, electronics) – who are always keen to seize on harmonic elements and dissonances capable of sketching out music at the borders of post-rock and avant-jazz.

"No Longer, Not Yet" is an album that captures the listener with fragmentary, vigorously organic rhythmic constructions. Tracks like "Danse Macabre" and "Slow Kick" are the result of a multi-voiced dialogue in which every instrument takes center stage. The trio's intense, velvety percussion and drum structures create perfect terrain for precious incursions of guitar and electronic instruments that upend their natural evolution, eventually crafting soundscapes of stately beauty that find their narrative peak in the long odyssey of "Blu", with a faint, minimal rhythmic groove that, without ever imploding, gives space and breath to gorgeous sonic elaborations.

The five years since their debut "What I Bring, What I Leave" have allowed She's Analog to perfect that mechanism of subtraction and fade-out that heightens their authenticity and originality, placing conceptual research and emotional depth on the same plane.

"No Longer, Not Yet" is a tribute to the fragility of contemporary man, a perfect soundtrack for these transitional times, but don't expect answers or superfluous digressions: even when the music turns slightly more turbulent ("Tangled"), the band stays true to a cool, deliberate avant-rock-jazz vision, making the album a rewarding listen.