ARIETE - Tutti tornano a casa

Three years on from “The Night”, Ariete returns to the scene with her fateful third album, “Tutti tornano a casa”, a project born out of a period away from the stage, spent processing her personal growth, coming to terms with the end of adolescence, and searching for her own inner balance.
While on her earlier records the singer-songwriter from Anzio managed to give voice to the everyday insecurities of an entire generation, her bedroom-pop today embodies a far more self-aware path of maturation: the teenager of her first EPs definitively gives way to a “young adult” capable of looking within herself, of forgiving, and of forgiving herself.

On the cover sits a suitcase, and inside it is all of Ariete's world, with her curled up inside too — an entire home packed into a suitcase. An image that perfectly mirrors the album's thread running through it, the exploration of the concept of "home", understood not just as a physical, geographic space, but as an intimate refuge, a safe and comforting harbor, reassuring, made up of loved ones, hard-won awareness and a deep acceptance of one's own identity.
It begins with the "home-beehive" parallel, a delicate, introspective opening built on soft lines of piano and synth, and from there twelve tracks unfurl across a pleasantly lean thirty-two minutes, a well-calibrated journey in which Arianna Del Giaccio ranges across indie songwriting, urban drift and unexpected dream-pop flourishes. Even in its sunniest moments a certain underlying melancholy remains constant, an element that has always marked her path, the zigzagging between complicated relationships, often broken off and perhaps mended again, the small-yet-large misunderstandings that stamp the daily routine of her generation.

Several duets ennoble the record, with Angelina Mango (“Che bella vita”, a reflection on the responsibilities of growing “up”), with Fulminacci (“Mano nella mano”, a union steeped in Roman spirit), with Tredici Pietro (“Casa mia / Casa tua”, on the comparison between physical places, roots and distances). “Quando la luna si accende”, one of the album's high points, is the well-judged collaboration with the “new Ariete”, Prima Stanza a Destra, an ethereal track subtly inspired by the dreamy sounds of Beach House, perfect for describing a room that suddenly fills with light, or a drive home with the lights off.
“Seduta n. 65” is the ideal closer, drawing its lifeblood from a course of psychotherapy: with no filters or scaffolding, the singer-songwriter comes to terms with the events of recent years and takes her leave, leaving the listener with a sense of peace and release. You'd want to hold Ariete tight; the way she comes across as shy and fragile stirs up a protective feeling: you want to wrap her up, shelter her, a small yet great treasure of our homegrown new indie songwriting.

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16/10/2026