On the 10th of June 2022, Francesca Burattelli will release her sophomore album ‘Battle Fatigue’.
Released via Copenhagen label Anyines, the album is the Italian singer and composers most expressive and sculpted work to date. It stands as an honest and virtuoso statement on the battle of love and life and places Burattelli as one of the most intriguing artists and vocalists to follow from the Danish music scene.
Dismantling the theme of heartbreak in her debut album 'Condition', Burattelli evolves to a broader conceptual spectrum on ’Battle Fatigue’. The more abstract patchwork compositions from 'Condition' have settled to more well defined pop tracks, co-produced by Villads Klint (Minais B) and Albert Hertz (Aper, Senso). The 11 songs of the album all feature Burattelli’s voice either singing, rapping, speaking or chanting. She does this in both english, danish and her italian mother-tongue, with the slang and dialect of southern Italy appearing in adlib yells ...

On the 10th of June 2022, Francesca Burattelli will release her sophomore album ‘Battle Fatigue’.
Released via Copenhagen label Anyines, the album is the Italian singer and composers most expressive and sculpted work to date. It stands as an honest and virtuoso statement on the battle of love and life and places Burattelli as one of the most intriguing artists and vocalists to follow from the Danish music scene.
Dismantling the theme of heartbreak in her debut album 'Condition', Burattelli evolves to a broader conceptual spectrum on ’Battle Fatigue’. The more abstract patchwork compositions from 'Condition' have settled to more well defined pop tracks, co-produced by Villads Klint (Minais B) and Albert Hertz (Aper, Senso). The 11 songs of the album all feature Burattelli’s voice either singing, rapping, speaking or chanting. She does this in both english, danish and her italian mother-tongue, with the slang and dialect of southern Italy appearing in adlib yells and calls throughout the album. Burattelli has a unique way of portraying the bends of love in her compositions. On tracks like ‘Argento Vivo’ and ‘Rebound’ gentle guitar work creates an enchanting backdrop to her vocal melodies, while deconstructed strings, drowsy horns and jarring percussion forms the sonic landscape on tracks like “Keen” and “Torrent”.
“The album is much more a reflection upon the theme of love and pain, examining romance as a game with a certain set of rules and a battle to take place,” Burattelli explains. This image is rewritten into an existential questioning - a universal reflection on themes like resistance, discipline, morality, courage and resilience to whatever one's battle might be. The songs are built up almost as ‘levels’ and largely refer to the aesthetics of gaming. “It is a way to formulate thoughts on vulnerability and shame, but mainly the acknowledgment of fighting one's own demons, realizing that we are our worst enemies,” she says.
With Burattelli’s roots in a catholic culture, the 'archetype of suffering' is always under the surface of the music, showing through the aesthetics of drama: romanticizing resilience, purity, the grandeur of pain and its spiritual and physical release. This trait is prominent in the traditional South Italian music, being a strong influence to Burattelli’s artistic practice. “The universe is build up by fragments from childhood memories that again appeal to the game-frame, as images of emotional status quos and the nostalgic urge to 'come home' to those conditions,” she says. The visual universe of the album was created in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Ville Vidø, featuring mini-versions of Burattelli crawling into her own body or facing her bigger self.
The label behind the release, Anyines, is known for supporting the experimental galaxies that the local scene embodies, with recent releases including the iconic pop-storytelling on Jura’s debut ‘Formality Jerne-Site’, the opera/book ‘memo’ from Spellcaster and the acclaimed ML Buch sophomore, ‘Skinned’. Burattelli’s unique blend of the yet unheard and the now catchy is a perfect fit for the roster....

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