Tu sei la simplicità, quella cosa che mi fa sognare

He sings in Italian, so you could be forgiven for thinking Nyco is Italian...but he's not. He's French. Well, his father is Italian, so I guess you could say he is, and that's the aspect of his heritage he seems to have chosen to emphasize for marketing purposes, but as far as I know, he's always lived in France. He's also the brother of Pierrick Lilliu, a second place finisher on Nouvelle Star (the French equivalent of Pop Idol); his real name is Nicolas Lilliu. He's released one single so far, with an album due to come out later this month...and, conditional on how the preview clips sound, I might buy it. When did summer become so expensive? It feels like there were hardly any new albums that came out last summer that I was interested in, but there's at least one, often more, every week this summer. Anyhow, if we can judge based on his single and the clip of a song on his MySpace, Nyco, as much as he might like to show himself playing a guitar in his music video, isn't pursuing as rocky a direction as Pierrick (based on the little I know of Pierrick's work).

Dimmi perché--I'm pretty sure this a summer fling--I'm not claiming this is a song to stick with you for the rest of your life, or even into next week. Still, there are worse ways to spend three and a half minutes of your life than listening to this mildly electro-influenced song. It's decently catchy and, disposable as it now feels, may even end up being a grower, maybe a song to last the whole summer--I'm not sure. The sound quality of this mp3 seems subpar to me--sorry about that!

You can preorder Nyco's debut album, Dimmi perché, due out May 28, here.

Next up: a Mexican duo.