For his second studio album, Snail in the Clouds, Michele Ducci recruited Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) to record and produce the album at 4 am Studios in London. The result is a lush, multi-layered pop album that showcases Ducci’s songwriting and vocal talents.
 
The album and film tell the story of a planet called Snail, inhabited by hybrids - primarily a mixture of scorpions, snails and humans - who live according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music.
 
There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who, together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.