Allesandro di Benedetti - about as good a modern innovator in modern rock music as you are likely to hear. 2024 saw a wonderful album released, Unusual Movements, released digitally ahead of a new album in 2025 which will be on physical product as well.

The final sentence says it all - this track wins my “if you buy nothing else in 2024” award, make sure it is this track.

To quote from my album review:

“Around the Corner references something I think about often (I hesitate to say great minds think alike, because I only write about a great mind’s creations), and that is an adult looking back at one’s childhood self, understanding what made the adult in the formative years, and I will make a bold statement that this is up there in these terms with one of my all-time favourite tracks dealing with the same theme, Gabriel’s classic Family Snapshot. It is the final epic length track we have, and the most noticeable thing that strikes you is the gorgeous pastoral orchestration, simply breathtaking in its execution in the opening passage, before after two minutes the jazz influence asserts itself and the vocals tell the story in which I picture myself looking at my vulnerable and often unhappy child self from the top of the room before we get such a lush passage dealing with the essence of childhood, a nigh on perfect mix of the folk, jazz, and symphonic (Tetti’s guitar solos would grace any classic progressive rock album, and Alessandro certainly takes his piano cue from Banks) as you are likely to hear. I have embedded this incredibly beautiful and moving track below. It is worth the album fee on its own.”