After an international release and tour for 'No Deal' (UK / US / Canada / Japan / Italy...), and over 80,000 albums sold worldwide, Melanie De Biasio returns with Blackened Cities: a hypnotic, captivating 25-minute piece, which confirms the unique and timeless position of an unclassifiable and essential artist. "It might be surprising, a 25-minute musical piece that is not a successor to No Deal, or anything other than a series of new songs. I followed what the music told me, like a visceral demand. A connection that then revealed itself to be linked to post-industrial cities, those places where we are now rediscovering the terms of unexpected hope. Manchester, Detroit, Bilbao or Charleroi, the city where I spent my first eighteen years." Melanie de Biasio