Three Chords and the Truth UK

  www.giuliamillanta.com Back in 2021 these pages hailed an introduction to Giulia Millanta's music: 'an imaginative and stimulating album'. Forward three years and this Austin-based artist has built upon a lofty assertion by spinning their wares in a parallel world. Millanta has chosen a bi-lingual route for the first time unveiling a sumptuous take on purring vocally through her Italian first language. The native tongue intermingles with English along a celestial landscape brimming with evocative sounds. ONLY LUNA KNOWS is roughly equal split on the linguistic front with the moon providing a constant thread alongside supremely crafted musicianship chiselling an emotive hollow for sultry vocals to blossom.  While a narrow preceptive language horizon is often the case for English speakers, there can be an exotic glint when other tongues come to the fore leaving ample space for the imagination to spark into life. Four tracks are entirely in Italian and you get a sense of the...