"A Snow Capped Romance" è il secondo lavoro del quartetto dell'Alaska dopo il non eccelso "Bitterness the Star", sempre sotto Roadrunner.
E' bene precisare subito che i 36 Crazyfists sono cambiati, infatti hanno abbandonato il nu-metal degli esordi per concentrarsi (forse per moda o forse perchè si sono resi conto di saperlo fare meglio) in quell'ibrido emo-metal core che in questi ultimi due anni sta spopolando un po' ovunque, anche qui nella nostra italietta.
Sinceramente non m'importa poi molto se il cambio di stile sia sintomo di una volontà di successo perchè questo disco è veramente ben fatto. Complice il lavoro al mixaggio del mitico Andy Sneap (per chi non lo sapesse produttore dei Nevermore) i suoni che escono da questo piccolo e circolare pezzo di plastica affascinano, emozionano e fanno incazzare come pochi altri.
La voce di Brock Lindow è quantomai affascinante e il suo particolare stile coinvolge ad ogni passaggio e il resto della band lo accompagna in questo viaggio attraverso EMOzioni e sofferenze.
Se devo trovare dei punti di tangenza musicale li individuerei nell'universo dei Poison the Well (da "Tear from the Red" in poi), degli Shai Hulud (R.I.P...sigh) e nello screamo di Underoath, Silverstein et similia... ma i 36 pugni pazzi hanno una loro anima ben tangibile, incentrata soprattutto, come ho già detto, nella particolare voce del cantante.
Inoltre da più fonti ho saputo che dal vivo sono spettacolari e non perdono una briciola della loro carica... sto aspettando impaziente una loro calata in terra italica, impazienza seconda solo ai Deftones e ai Dredg.
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01 At the End of August (03:57)
So I lit lanterns to light up all these words
Looking back I know it's what I'd die for
And through all this life
Smashed away all the strife
A friendship I paint
Untouchable
Crawling from the floor
I've been there before
There I was staring back at the bottom
And let's make this clear
It came from these tears
Carved across our chests
Loyalty...
And with the new light there was young hope
To underline the meaning
And carve our names in
At the end of August
The end of
At the end of August
The end of
I'll never replace the ones I first made
Jesus, does anyone?
So I lit lanterns to
Light up all these words
Looking back I know it's what I'd die for
And through all this life
Smashed away all the strife
A friendship I paint
Untouchable
And with the new light there was young hope
To underline the meaning
And carve our names in
At the end of August
The end of
At the end of August
The end of
I'll never replace the ones I first made
Jesus, does anyone?
Crawling from the floor
I've been there before
And let's make this clear
Loyalty
And I want you to know
How all of you made me
How all of you saved me
And I'll never replace
The ones I first made
Jesus, does anyone?
At the end of August
The end of
At the end of August
The end of
I'll never replace the ones I first made
Jesus, does anyone?
Crawling from the floor
I've been there before
There I was staring back at the floor
And let's make this clear
It came from these tears
Carved across our chests
Loyalty
Loyalty, loyal
02 The Heart and the Shape (03:10)
Just went through your eyes,
and the battle was fine.
Couldn't stand to see you streaming.
Now I realize that I might have been
part of the reason for your frowning.
And so I grey the heart and the shape,
that look that you gave, staring.
At empty help me back to awake.
And so I grey the heart and the shape.
Now the bottle plays a little factor.
Not the way I used to be, thankfully.
I was disguising a different matter,
now I engage in everything, infinity...
Help me back to awake.
There were sentences with no direction,
those are pieces that I put away.
There is sadness in the reflection,
one long look is all that it takes.
03 Bloodwork (03:18)
Here is your broken character, the one left of heaven
Scissors cut him from the page, example
continue to read not to retrace the steps, touch me
The hemorrhaging has ceased, has ceased
Chorus:
And I swallow these capsules to regain my grip
And I swallowed myself sick And I inherited my health
Here is your wake and smile, that you seem to need
The safe and the touch, and the unweave
Right where you placed it the night before
Saint checks in to make sure
you're right where you say that you are
right where you are
Chorus
They all seem so truthful, they all seem so true
They all seem so truthful, they all seem so true
Couldn't find a better way,couldnt find a better way to lie
chorus
04 Kenai (02:47)
Over mountains I feel safe
Sacred were those summers
And these memories I place in my heart for shelter
And I modify
Just to smell the ocean
And I underline
Visualizing motion
And I guess I miss my home
I could not stay
I'll return It's alright I'm ok
Reoccured daydream
Tie up stern first
And these gifts i've learned never leave me
And I redesign
Family and growing
And I realign
Forgetting nothing
And I guess I miss my home
I could not stay
I'll return It's alright I'm ok
Maybe in a few years it'll come back to you
Reflection becoming your virtue
So sort me out
Lay me away
Over these mountains I feel safe
And bless the sound
Return the day
Over these mountains I feel safe
And I guess I miss my home
I could not stay
I'll return It's alright I'm ok
Maybe in a few years it'll come back to you
Reflection becoming your virtue
So sort me out
Lay me away
Over these mountains I feel safe
05 Skin and Atmosphere (04:12)
Think I'll rename my heart, the calendar.
'Cause it'll surely know just when to end.
And I've been looking at you through the telephone,
as the photograph whispers that she isn't even home.
So alone, I bleed myself right in.
Unusual here breathing, inviting the silence.
(chorus)
But you're not here,
you're nowhere near at all.
Just skin and atmosphere.
And if it's not what you wanted,
better get out now.
Alone it takes me,
underneath it'll surely break me.
Underneath these things.
Twenty some years my parents let themselves leave.
I always swore that would never, ever be me.
And now you're looking at me through a new lens,
your voice on the end doesn't understand anything, nor do I.
Paper cuts for me.
Unusual here breathing, inviting the silence.
(chorus)
Prove me wrong, I want you to prove me wrong.
07 With Nothing Underneath (03:28)
You should've called out,
made amends, broken hearts breathe unison.
I was trying to gather mine.
All my tragedies are my enemies,
all my enemies are mine.
And we carry on, just to lighten the load.
Never had I been such outsider,
eyes of the blamed,
while I was trying to reclaim.
All my tragedies are my enemies,
all my enemies are mine.
And we carry on,
just to lighten the load,
and silently we sleep with nothing underneath.
With weary hands and driven nails,
I begin to rebuild myself.
The bruises uncover the scene,
the taste of the clean.
And we carry on, outlasting,
just to lighten the load,
silently we sleep
with nothing underneath.
With your voice I keep you.
Never used like this gently.
08 Destroy the Map (03:47)
You couldn't hold your mouth to stop the sound
With all these riches on the tip of your tongue
And I was trying to dampen it all out
You were talking louder than I should hear
Producing nothing but all these mirrors
And I was trying to play it all down
With eyes of blood
These kisses won't rust
With eyes of blood
These kisses won't rust
Where the baptized drown
We used to breathe
Where the baptized drown
We used to breathe
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
Sad song, so wrong
Your body shakes for so long
And towing me down
Let's just stay late
Safe bet for second place
This time, our time
We have we'll last
With eyes of blood
These kisses won't rust
With eyes of blood
These kisses won't rust
Where the baptized drown
We used to breathe
Where the baptized drown
We used to breathe
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
That evil
A brutal sickness brings
In times you can't let go
It chases you from everything
To settle for almost anyting
It's times like these
When you should only choose
Just not to speak
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
Underneath the red
Come running back to me
Come running
Underneath the red
And the clouds don't break when the sun is on empty
Destroy the map!
And the clouds don't break when the sun is on empty
Destroy the map!
And the clouds don't break when the sun is on empty
Destroy the map!
And the clouds don't break when the sun is on empty
Destroy the map!
And the grounds don't break when the sun is on empty
09 Installing the Catheter (03:51)
Through the long sleep
Darkness bleeds
Through the silver and I
Reminded the layout as the wings
They all died
And it all hates like you
Destroys the message
Another open eye to secrets
With plans to scrape them clean
And I have stacked them higher than anyone believed
And it downplays the scene
It all comes crashing
Don't be removed
I got you where I said that I would always put you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
Come and take me over
The lights have been removed
With pieces at ankles
We answered and it all tastes like you
And all it captures
Take on me as long as you think that you can handle
And taking me to truth and tearing me from scandal
And it all saves like you
Define disaster
Don't be removed
I got you where I said that I would always put you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
And don't die like you
Tormented skies
Treated to taste and outlast the sun
I design what ails
Don't be removed
I got you where I said that I would always put you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
And i'm heading for the bottom
The bottom of you
Coldest of the cold stay outside
Bring on harms way
Coldest of the cold stay outside
Bring on harms way
Coldest of the cold stay outside
Bring on harms way
Bring on harms way
Bring on harms way
10 Cure Eclipse (03:32)
The night breathes different
And the cold was named anew
She sits in the wordless space
The grin gave us away
And that was the end
That was everything dying
And that was the end
That was everything
Cut into the face and think straight
I was doing everything to keep me from choking
With the weather heavy
Heavy at the fireside
You'll say it so well
So well
Dreary can come out and move yourself away
I know you owe me
I know you owe me
This year, this year cure me
And I was barely here but I'd been there for years
Thought I'd leave it there so it couldn't follow me here
And I've been thinking of you as the days grew color
With the seconds turning hours
My end turned alive
Dreary can come out and move yourself away
I know you owe me
I know you owe me
This year, this year cure me
The night breathes different
And the cold was named anew
I found so much more this way
I found so much more this way
Dreary can come out and move yourself away
I know you owe me
I know you owe me
This year, this year cure me
11 Waterhaul (04:51)
Press skin into skin,
just a fraction to gather the senses.
Still locking in mine, design,
just a scrape to uncover the evidence.
You won't remove me, not anymore.
So here we are, now it's obvious.
Candle lit to divide all your areas.
And inside all your barriers,
I'm defending my lines to ignite...
And I'll be this way forever.
Inside the locks hide,
so my faith can come outside and shine.
Beside it's why all these miles of road won't divide.
You won't remove me, not anymore.
And now it's where the secret's pushed behind,
with the lanterns to burn this inside.
And up there A SNOW-CAPPED ROMANCE where,
everything we build will come from our eyes...
And I'll be this way forever.
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