FIVE EGGS feels like stepping into the imagined jungle of a wildly ambitious 1960s psychedelic film with impossible colours, set dressing that overwhelms the senses, and a plot that makes absolutely no sense. With Italian DNA running through the cinematic logic of the entire record, this is an album full of excess and imagination.

Psychedelic Breakfast opens with nothing held back as a marching drum pattern gives way to a full choir and chiming bells with an intoxicating effect, like standing inside a moving kaleidoscope. From there Spizza explodes into technicolour joy, skipping between gorgeously sunny up-tempo passages and lilting waltzes and feeling like an Austin Powers dance scene with flowers spinning and colours pulsing. Despite the anything-goes instrumentation, the performances themselves are surprisingly sensitive with comforting guitar lines anchoring the psychedlelic madness in strong songwriting.

Pariah leans into a bright, Latin-inflected groove, replacing a traditional chorus with a single, glittering keyboard line that shines, and a melody so infectious it could drop seamlessly into a DJ set anywhere in the world. Biscaglione is an indie pop song dressed in wildly psychedelic colours and unpredictable chord changes, while Gossip Playground pulls the mood down into a wonkier electronic downtempo feel.

The album jumps joyfully between worlds with Life Doesn’t Mean Much To You drifting into Bowie-esque space ballad territory, and Spacesomething using dub spirals and echoing trumpets and harmonicas to twist a simple melody into something vast and dissloving. Torre Velasca is a curious standout driven by an unidentifiable bass sound that feels mashed together across frequencies, with Arabic percussion evoking Kula Shaker or Omar Souleyman.

It Really Doesn’t Matter arrives with an Electric Light Orchestra-style sway and hands-in-the-air-positivity, and the closing track Retorni slows everything down into a gentle acoustic farewell bathed in warmth. FIVE EGGS is rammed with disorientating surprises, with sudden changes in texture or instrumentation, but every detour lands as a satisfying earworm with melodies that feel timeless. Even when tracks begin modestly with little more than an acoustic guitar, they bloom into an expansive and glittering world.

Prioritising groove and movement, FIVE EGGS is at its core a jam-led, rhythm-first dance record, but at the same time opening out into something lavish and immersive. With a luxurious sense of Italian extravagance in the record’s lack of limits, the album is experimental, unpredictable and daring but also friendly and warm. You could put it on in the background for the pleasant atmosphere and satisfying melodies but it would undoubtedly take over the room quickly with its constant stream of unignorable surprises.