Damiano David, vocalist and frontman of Måneskin, embarks on a solo project. With the aim of showing his most “personal and vulnerable” side, the singer releases ‘Silverlines’, produced by Labrinth, today, September 27.
With that purpose in mind, Damiano goes solo with a composition that has nothing to do with the rock sexuality of ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’. Not even with the guitar emotion of a song like ‘The Loneliest’.
With a piano chord as a base, ‘Silverlines’ is a torch ballad that Johnny Cash could have sung in the last years of his career. Or perhaps a less gloomy Nick Cave, because, although the sound maintains the darkness, the lyrics are hopeful: Damiano sees a “horizon”, he already feels the “calm after the storm”, he sings that his “tears have dried up” . From containment, ‘Silverlines’ moves to catharsis in a second part in which drums and choirs point to the sky. The effect as the first single of ‘Silverlines’ is similar to that of ‘Sign of the Times’ by Harry Styles. You would never guess that Labrinth, so given to electronic experimentation, signs the production.
The Italian already gave clues about what was to come during the VMAs, in which he explained that he had been working “for a long, long time” on a “new project” outside of Måneskin.
According to a press release, the decision to start a parallel solo career “was born from the need to express a more personal and vulnerable side”, which “remains completely unexplored in Måneskin’s compositions.”
