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Tracklist: Crazy Cryin'; I Got You; Who Am I; Hero; What In The World; Future Soul; Under The Knife; Be Kind; Devil Be Gone; Shout Out; Ride On
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English version
It was released yesterday by Fantasy Records Future Soul, the sixth studio album by the Tedeschi Trucks Band, after Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockn') was released last September. Four years after the monumental I Am the Moon — an ambitious and layered project, divided into four chapters — the collective led by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks is changing its perspective. While the previous work was introspective, almost spiritual, the new chapter is avowedly extroverted, direct, built to communicate immediately. An album with a more compact, more refined sound, and above all where the tendency towards instrumental digression finds less space; more songs in the classical sense of the term. That does not mean that we have to talk about a commercial breakthrough, far from it. The approach to writing songs has simply changed, shorter and more direct, without frills. The opening with Crazy Cryin’ immediately clarifies the intent: a well-chosen riff, funky and prominent horns and the voice of Susan Tedeschi, who seems to continue to improve and a strigato solo by Derek Trucks. We continue with the two songs chosen as singles (I Got You and Who Am I); the first, written by singer Mike Mattison, is pleasant and sunny, while the second is more intimate and thoughtful and once again highlights Susan Tedeschi's uvula. The following Hero is among the most interesting moments of the album, with a progressively increasing pace and, at the risk of sounding boring, with another great performance by Susan Tedeschi. The song returns to a subdued atmosphere with the brief, suspended, and melancholic What in the World. Then comes the title track, Future Soul, and the shot rises again with the rock coming in powerfully and the guitar dictating the way; another excellent song. On Under the Knife, Mike Mattison takes over the vocals; the move is toward a more manneristic rock style, where the excellent horn arrangement stands out; Be Kind isn't bad, but it's nothing more, perhaps the most normal or the least fitting track, no matter where you analyze it. The blues resurfaces on Devil Be Gone with a beautiful solo by Trucks that embellishes it, and we get to the end of the album. The last two songs are linked by a sense of relative tranquility: Shout Out, almost dramatic with its choral nuances and the short gem of Ride On, which closes the album with the notes of the guitar, and there could have been no better way. Those looking for long jams and improvisations may not find them here, but they can indulge in appreciating them in concert. The band may have entered a more accessible phase, but they did so without betraying their soul. And if the future still has a soul, we can only hope for a new European tour, perhaps an Italian one (after the last one in 2019); we want to get back to listening to these champions of overseas rock.
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Tracklist: Crazy Cryin'; I Got You; Who Am I; Hero; What In The World; Future Soul; Under The Knife; Be Kind; Devil Be Gone; Shout Out; Ride On






