REVIEW: Giuseppe Cucè – ’21 grammi’

Giuseppe Cucè’s ’21 grammi’ is a release that blooms, burns, and rises as it plays. This is the kind of album that grabs you by the collar, stares straight into your chest, and insists you feel everything. It’s bold, cinematic, emotionally volcanic, and unmistakably the work of an artist operating at full creative firepower.

Cucè takes the legendary idea that the soul weighs twenty-one grams and turns it into an entire universe. Across nine interconnected tracks, he builds a world where spirit and skin collide, and where the softest wounds glow like constellations.

From the first breath, the record radiates atmosphere. His warm and grit-tinged voice acts as the album’s compass. Cucè sings like someone unafraid to expose the bruises, letting every whisper, crack, and crescendo carry emotional weight.

Producer Riccardo Samperi deserves equal applause. The production is lush. Acoustic warmth entwines with ghostly electronic details, creating an ambience that feels both ancient and futuristic. Strings swell, guitars shimmer, and pianos glow like lanterns in fog. You can practically see the scenes forming in your mind.

But the album’s true magic lies in how deeply human it is. Love, memory, longing, identity; Cucè explores them all with a fearlessness that feels rare. Each song functions like a chapter in a beautifully constructed emotional novel, with melodies that linger long after silence returns.

By the time ‘Di estate non si muore’ closes the record in celestial fashion, you feel lighter but somehow more whole, as though the artist has lifted, examined, and honoured your own twenty-one grams right alongside his.

’21 grammi’ is breathtaking, intimate, and bravely crafted; delivering a triumphant ode to what it means to carry a soul in a fragile world. If this is Cucè’s new era, consider us fully converted.