Alberto Turcato wired heart in throat emotion into weightless indie pop in his debut single, Fly Away –

Alberto Turcato poured equal measures of emotion and innovation into his alt indie pop debut single, Fly Away. The 24-year-old Italian songwriter and vocalist, now based in London after uprooting his life at 19 to chase the only dream that made sense, clearly used the last six years wisely. The graft shows in the way he holds vulnerability and ambition in the same palm and lets the track unfold as both a statement of intent and emotional release.

With one of the most satisfying riffs that has appeared in pop this side of the millennium, Alberto Turcato finds a myriad of new directions for the progressive single to explore to subvert expectations and deliver an exhilarating release which never attempts to overload your senses. Everything lands exactly where it should be in the production to amplify the thematic weight of the reflectively candid release, which sonically pays ode to the title through the sense of weightlessness.

From orchestral scores fitting around Latin guitar grooves and hints of emo indie Y2K pop, Fly Away unravels as an expansive triumph, proving Alberto Turcato’s real spiritual home was always on the airwaves. He delivers all the heart in throat, almost too much to bear emotion of Coldplay while injecting an indie pop stylism that few would struggle to find themselves too highbrow for. Of course, at the centre of it all are Alberto Turcato’s sweet vocal lines, which inflect a sense of purity into pop.

After years of sharpening his pen and voice, Turcato finally pressed his name into the pop sphere with the help of Xacutti Music Publishing and The Orchard, finishing the track alongside producer Oscar Simons, who wraps the arrangement around Turcato’s vision instead of swallowing it. If this is the calibre of his debut, the next wave of releases could quite easily turn him into one of the most dependable new names in indie pop.

Fly Away is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast