Pastafrolla is the first song by the Padua band led by Carlo Corbellini after the introspective, smoky and iconoclastic adventure of Entropia Padrepio (2022). A decisive step into that downhill world recounted in Pista Nera, the new album due on 22 November.
Written by Carlo Corbellini and arranged by Post Nebbia, as always firmly anchored to the principle of DIY, Pastafrolla is the first song to be born for the album and moves in a universe poised between anger and disillusionment, between disenchantment and betrayal, traversed by a feeling of generational vertigo.

The lyrics of Pastafrolla are intentionally bipolar, says Carlo Corbellini. The verse is ruinous, almost Fantozzian: for the first phrase (‘The house is made of pastry, you have to take into account that if it rains it will collapse’) I was inspired by a scene from The Simpsons in which, after the mafia has won a contract, the school is built with crackers instead of bricks and when it rains it melts. The refrain, on the other hand, expresses the bitter feeling that the future we have grown up with is a fake, a second ‘Father Christmas doesn’t exist’ that is dealt with later than the first.

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