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Golden Youth

by The Softone

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1.
Intro 00:42
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2.
Alone and Weird 03:20
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I'm still not tired The words fall To complete the text It's almost the end I feel ready Strength comes over me Silence goes out And the song begins Can't you see I'm alone and I’m weird Drop me just a line And tell me you'll be there again tomorrow I walk forward To forget the past I look inside the sun To see what comes next Tears of angels That fall from the sky They wash my soul And dry my spine Can't you see I'm alone but I’m here Hold me for a while And tell me that I’m always yours I'm still here for awhile The pain I feel inside Is equal to the love you make The more you give The more I get And now there is only silence Between us there is only silence Can't you see I'm alone but I’m here Hold me for a while And tell me that I’m always yours I'm still here for awhile The pain I feel inside Is equal to the love you make The more you give The more I get
3.
Sweet Mom 03:02
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4.
Surprising Me 03:24
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5.
I Wish 03:16
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6.
Little Star 04:11
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7.
Still Believe 03:09
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8.
Golden Youth 03:21
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9.
Lost Memories 01:16
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10.
Psycho Visions 03:22
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11.
The Place 03:11
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12.
Outro 00:26
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about

𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 is the fourth album for The Softone, and is for sure the more similar to his first album “These Days Are Blue”, released back in 2008.
As completing a circle Giovanni Vicinanza, the man behind the project, found shelter and inspiration in chamber pop compositions, with an improved songwriting and sophisticated arrangements, involving strings and sax.
Golden Youth is an intimate and deeply felt collection of songs, born out of loss and birth, out of sadness and joy.
Music as a private space, to elaborate and transform life's turmoil into beauty, standing between the sea and the shade of Napoli's vulcano Vesuvio, that overlooks Giovanni's Lavalab Recording Studio.
At the end of the songwriting process, Vicinanza moved to Milwaukee, in the States, to give the final touches and mix the tracks.
Golden Youth is an album featuring the pop elegance of modern classic composers as Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy) and Richard Hawley, but also dreamy arrangements reminiscent of 70's works of Nick Drake.

🇮🇹 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 è il quarto disco di The Softone ovvero Giovanni Vicinanza, autore e produttore in toto dell’album. “Golden Youth” rappresenta un ritorno alle origini pop folk del primo album “These Days Are Blue”: un disco intimo che nasce come uno sfogo istintivo, atto dovuto, che salva dalla mera follia. Il disco nasce da emozioni private, a volte belle, come la nascita di una figlia, e a volte insopportabilmente tristi, come la perdita di una madre, ma che comunque si mescolano, raccontando uno spaccato di vita di un artista, che sfugge alla realtà, trovando conforto nella musica, circondato e ispirato dal paesaggio vesuviano. Il disco infatti nasce al Lavalab Recording Studio dello stesso Giovanni ai piedi del Vesuvio, ma è stato chiuso e mixato, sempre dallo stesso Giovanni, durante il soggiorno nell’americanissima Milwaukee.

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released October 25, 2019

Produced: The Softone
All tracks: Giovanni Vicinanza

Arranged and performed: Giovanni Vicinanza, Raffaele Polimeno, Corrado Tortoriello
Recorded and mixed: Lavalab Recording Studio in Italy and Milwaukee (WI) during winter 2017/18
Mastering audio: Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago (IL)
Photo and cover artwork: The Softone

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The Softone is the main project of the Italian songwriter Giovanni Vicinanza. "Soft" stands for the delicacy of the sound and "One" stands for his solitary mood.

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