Sputnik (album)

Sputnik is the thirteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Luca Carboni, released June 8, 2018 by Sony Music. Carboni, through Instagram, unveiled the title and cover of the new album on 26 April, 2018. Sputnik is the nineteenth overall album of the artist, and was produced by Michele Canova Iorfida. It was released three years after the last pop album. The album consists of nine unreleased tracks, including the single "Una Grande Festa" released on April 27, 2018, and "Io non voglio" on September 14, 2018. For the album title, Carboni was inspired by the satellite Sputnik 1. The cover was designed by Carboni himself and depicts himself dressed as an cosmonaut, with the Russian satellite behind him, the moon and other objects. The album contains nine pieces, The thread that links all the songs is love is sometimes dashed with irony (Digital Love), sprayed with quotes by Charles Bukowski (I do not want) and sentences of the poet Wisława Szymborska traced here and there. The album version is published in CD format and also in LP format with purple colored vinyl.