For months, a rumor circulated online that Madonna’s new album would be titled “Algorhythms,” a play on words between algorithms and musical rhythms. Finally, that title has gone to Natalie Imbruglia, only without referring to the “rhythms” of disco music; It is titled simply with the name of this computer concept.
Natalie Imbruglia’s first album in five years can be heard starting September 4. Imbruglia assures that its creation has coincided with the biggest mental health crisis he has experienced in his life, and that with the album he wanted to “transform the darkness into light.”
The press release promises that ‘Algorithm’ will remind Imbruglia fans “why they fell in love with her in the first place.” The first preview confirms this, since ‘Upside Down’ recovers the guitars that marked Imbruglia’s music in the early 2000s, and is one of his songs most indebted to guitar pop, indie pop and jangle pop of the 80s and 90s.
On the subject, Imbruglia explains that it is about “the inability to control my emotions” and “how willpower alone does not always work,” but sometimes “you need tools, support,” in a possible allusion to the search for psychological help.
Built on luminous keyboards, layers of guitars, allusions to “dancing in the sky” and an uplifting and luminous melody, ‘Upside Down’ is a worthy lead single from Natalie Imbruglia. Although at the moment we don’t know if it will be heard as much as classics like ‘Torn’ or ‘Counting Down the Days’, it comes out more than graceful in its nostalgic exercise. In Spain you can hear it at BRAVA this summer.
