Baseball Gregg - Pastimes (2022)

For the past few years, Baseball Gregg has continued on its merry way. The Italian-American duo has an undeniable discography with two discs, the last of which dates from 2018, as well as a compilation released in February 2020. This year, they are seeing things big with their brand new album entitled Pastimes.

Here come twenty new titles for a good hour of music capturing all the quintessence of Baseball Gregg. Luca Lovisetto and Samuel Regan offer us a musical journey placed under the sign of tranquility and smoothness with elegant pieces such as "Montese" which opens the album but also the catchy and seductive ones both like "Nevertheless", "Biting My Tongue” or even “Past Times” which never cease to move us.

Ranging from gleaming but smooth tracks to soaring acoustic interludes, Baseball Gregg battles through adversity. Pastimes wants to be cathartic in a sense where the Italian-American duo refuses to give in to fate with this unsuspected sweetness with "Sylvia Beach", "Holobiont" and other "luv 2 b". They will even try in French with “Oh les beaux jours” for the anecdote. Pastimes is a sublime musical document where each title is a battle against adversity and pessimism on "Shred", "I Don't Wanna Wait and See" or even on "Lonely Chimneys". In the end, optimism prevails with “Gone Deaf” and the aptly-named “Lonely Days” showing that Baseball Gregg continues to step out of the ordinary as it should.