Label: Memphis Industries
Released 2019
Their name may mean ‘newcomers’ in Hawaiian, but Malihini, aka Rome-based duo Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo, deal exclusively in the music of lived experience and time-honed emotional intelligence, their disarming musical universe never less than distinctive, yet resonating with a confessional, modern European pop sophistication of a kind elsewhere purveyed by the likes of CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, Jose Gonzalez and Our Broken Garden. Listening to the ten co-written songs that grace Malihini’s exquisite debut album, Hopefully, Again, can sometimes feel like eavesdropping on a couple’s intimate emotional dialogues, such is the ingenuous honesty of the duo’s writing.
Track Listing:
- A House On A Boat
- Hopefully, Again
- Delusional Boy
- Nefertiti
- Giving Up On Me
- Can’t Stand That
- If U Call
- The Snow
- The Afterdays
- Song #1