Måneskin Album Review

Reception

Rush! received a score of 69 out of 100 based on 11 reviews on review aggregator Metacritic, indicating “generally favorable” reception.^[15] Rho Chung of The Skinny opined that the album “perfectly captures the sense of spontaneous authenticity that makes for a one-of-a-kind show”.^[25] Writing for Kerrang!, Sam Law felt that the band are “still utterly unstoppable” when they “tap into the youthful exuberance and fiery eccentricity that got them here in the first place”.^[23] Robin Murray of Clash deemed the album “exhaustive and exhausting” and “the definitive word in this unlikely rock phenomenon – at its best, it’s a feral reminder of how entertaining the genre can be”.^[16]

Rolling Stone‘s David Browne found that “the ridiculousness of most of Rush!” is a demonstration of how Måneskin “only manage to confirm how hard rock & roll has to work these days to be noticed”. Calling the project the “broadest stroke” of the band, Browne appreciated Max Martin’s production, who “knows his way around a hook”, and the revival of the “deadpan, half-spoken new-wave novelty”.^[26] Alexis Petridis, reviewing the album for The Guardian, wrote that Måneskin capture their influences and make them “genuinely coherent” on the project, with an “oddly guileless” result. Petridis noted that what the project lacks is made up for with “enthusiasm” and “If that enthusiasm occasionally tips over into a cloying eagerness to please, more often it’s infectious”.^[20] Annabel Nugent of The Independent found that over the course of the album it is difficult to get a moment “where you don’t have some fun”, finding that nevertheless on first listen it sounds “amorphous”.^[21]

Lauren Murphy of The Irish Times wrote that “as a collection of surface-level, toe-tappy rock songs”, the album is “more than serviceable”, calling it a “a bid to secure Måneskin’s foothold in foreign territories” with “slick English-language affairs”, although “lyrically uninventive”. Murphy noted that on the album the band seems aware “that we’d never have heard of them if not for the profile afforded them by Eurovision“.^[22] Reviewing the album for The Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber was not impressed with Rush! compared to the band’s previous efforts, writing that it “does not make a very strong case that the band’s appeal is its music”. Kornhaber pointed out that “the album’s redundancy has the odd effect of calling into question the guitars are back! narrative that the band seemingly invites”, labelling the songs “plainly recycled” and “brazenly mediocre”.^[27]

Sarah Taylor of Gigwise judged the band to be “playing it safe with the lyrics on this record, exaggerating up their rebel aesthetic, and compromising the lyrical beauty of earlier tracks like ‘Torna a casa‘ and ‘Coraline‘”, suggesting that “some of their songs are all style and no substance”. Taylor noted that the three tracks sung in Italian are some of “the most frenetic and thrilling” on the record.^[19] Conversely, Italian music critics noted that the Italian-language tracks are the least musically and lyrically functional.^[28][29][30]

Claudio Cabona of Rockol described the project as a “pop-rock playlist that tends to repeat itself”, pointing out “the band’s tendency to make its own the styles, clichés, and sounds of a rock that has already been heard”. He felt that the band’s young audience will welcome the record as it “has no definite footholds and references […] because they haven’t experienced it”.^[31] Claudio Todesco of Rolling Stone Italia noted that the futility of trying to analyse the album, as “you end up criticizing the substantial lack of an original musical language, the lack of charm, the absence of high-level creativity”, finding that even if the band “didn’t do anything new, they did it at the right time” because “they understand rock as a living body, not an excellent corpse to be watched over”.^[32]

Full article

The above is extracted from our post “New Album Of The Month – Måneskin – Rush! (23-01-20)”

New Album Of The Month(#NAOTM) #BOMR #BestOfMusic, #BestOfMusicRadio, #BestOfMusicRadioVideos, #BOMR, #BOMR2022MusicHighlightsMåneskin, #BOMR2023MusicHighlights, #BOMR2023MusicHighlightsMåneskin, #BOMRMåneskin, #BOMRMåneskinNewAlbum, #BOMRNewAlbumReleases, #BOMRNewAlbumReleases23, #BOMRNewAlbumReleases2301, #BOMRNewAlbumReleases230120, #BOMRVideos, #InternetRadio, #InternetRadioInMauritius, #InternetRadios, #InternetRadiosInMauritius, #Måneskin, #Mauritius, #MauritiusMusic, #MusicInMauritius, #NAOTM, #NAOTM2023, #NAOTM202301, #RadiosInMauritius (#BOMR) #BestOfMusicRadioDotCom