Un'attesa infinita, quella che precede "Horizons" il nuovo album degli Anathema, seguito di quel "A Natural Disaster" ormai abbastanza lontano nel tempo (2003). Rimasti senza contratto dopo il fallimento della Music for Nation", hanno trovato "asilo" alla KScope; sotto questa etichetta pubblicano questo album, in cui vengono riproposte, in chiave semi-acustica, alcune delle canzoni più amate della loro carriera.

Che fosse previsto in seguito ai loro tour acustici o che si tratti solo di un tappabuchi in attesa di "Horizons" non è dato saperlo, anche se sarà una domanda che vi farete spesso durante l'ascolto di questo "Hindsight". Troviamo infatti brani egregiamente riarrangiati al punto di risultare freschi e piacevoli da ascoltare, come "Fragile Dreams", "One Last Goodbye" o "Are You There", che guadagnano molto grazie all'utilizzo di archi e alla voce sia dolce che oscura di Vincent Cavanagh (che offre un'interpretazione perfetta e da brividi per l'intero lavoro), alternati però a tracce palesemente identiche alla loro versione originale: è il caso di "Inner Silence" o, esempio ancora più evidente, "A Natural Disaster".

Piacevole anche il brano inedito che chiude l'album, "Unchained", espressivo come sempre, anche se non all'altezza di tutti gli altri brani presenti su "Hindsight". Una nota negativa va alla brevità del lavoro (solo 10 tracce) e alla poca cura prestata al packaging del disco.

Certamente un album suonato col cuore e con la voglia di creare qualcosa di più di un semplice lavoro acustico, ma che nonostante tutto non è imperdibile: forse non ce n'era davvero bisogno, ma per i fan della band (soprattutto quelli che hanno accettato la loro svolta "alternative) è un ascolto obbligatorio che strapperà qualche malinconica lacrimuccia.

Elenco tracce testi samples e video

01   Fragile Dreams (05:30)

Countless times I trusted you
I let you back in
Knowing... Yearning... you know
I should have run... but I stayed

Maybe I always knew
My fragile dreams would be broken for you

Today I introduced myself
To my own feelings
In silent agony after all these years they spoke to me
After all these years

Maybe I always knew
My fragile dreams would be broken
For you

02   Leave No Trace (04:52)

Born to the glare of the senses
Spoon fed reality infused
A new inherent
Passive contentment
You are so easily amused

Here and now
We are gone in a heartbeat
A dream in the
Passage your time

Chances are fading
This world isn't waiting
The moment is passing you by

Questions lie beneath the surface
The fools are fooled once again
Benign coincidence
We stole our existence
And gladly cast it to the wind

Here and now
We are gone in a heartbeat
A dream in the passage of time

Chances are fading
This world isn't waiting
The moment is passing you by

Slowly spinning on the wind back home

03   Inner Silence (03:40)

When the silence beckons,
And the day draws to a close,
When the light of your life sighs,
And love dies in your eyes,
Only then will I realise,
What you mean to me

04   One Last Goodbye (06:03)

How I needed you
How I grieve now you're gone
In my dreams I see you
I awake so alone

I know you didn't want to leave
Your heart yearned to stay
But the strength I always loved in you finally gave way

Somehow I knew you would leave me this way
Somehow I knew you could never stay
And in the early morning light
After a silent, peaceful night
You took my heart away and my being

In my dreams I can see you
I can tell you how I feel
In my dreams I can hold you
And it feels so real

I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love

And somehow I knew you could never never stay
And somehow I knew you would leave me
And in the early morning light
After a silent, peaceful night
You took my heart away
Oh I wish, I wish you could have stayed

05   Are You There? (05:18)

06   Angelica (05:00)

Where are you tonight?
Wild flower in starlit heaven
Still enchanted in flight
Obsessions lament to freedom

A timeless word, the meanings changed
But I'm still burning in your flames,
Incessant, lustral masquerade,
Unengaged, dilit love didn't taste the same

And I still wonder if you ever wonder the same
And I still wonder...

07   A Natural Disaster (06:20)

It's been a long cold winter without you
I've been crying on the inside over you
You just slipped through my fingers as life turned away
It's been a long cold winter since that day

And it's hard to find
Hard to find
Hard to find the strength now, but I try
And I don't wanna
I don't wanna
I don't wanna go on and speak now
Of what's gone by
'Cause no matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened
I can't change what happened
No matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened
I can't change what happened
No, no, I can't change

You just slipped through my fingers
And I feel so ashamed
You just slipped through my fingers
And I've failed

'Cause no matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened
I can't change what happened
No matter what I say
No matter what I do
I can't change what happened
I can't change what happened
No, no, I can't change

Just slipped through my fingers
And I feel so ashamed
You just slipped through my fingers
And I've failed.

08   Temporary Peace (05:10)

Deep inside the silence staring out upon the sea
The waves are washing over half forgotten memory
Deep within the moment laughter floats upon the breeze
Rising and falling dying down within me
And I swear I never knew, I never knew how it could be
And all this time all I had inside was what I couldn't see
I swear I never knew, I never knew how could be
All the waves are washing over all that hurts inside of me
Beyond this beautiful horizon lies a dream for you and I
This tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumours in the sky
But there's a storm closing in voices crying on the wind
The serenade is growing colder breaks my soul that tries to sing
And there's so many many thoughts when I try to go to sleep
But with you I start to feel a sort of temporary peace
There's a drift in and out
Drift in and out
Drift

09   Flying (06:27)

Started a search to no avail
a light that shines behind the veil
trying to find it
and all around us everywhere
is all that we could ever share
if only we could see it
feel there's truth that's beyond me
life ever changing weaving destiny

and it feels like i'm flying above you
dream that i'm dying to find the truth
seems that your trying to bring me down
back down to earth back down to earth

layers of dust and yesterdays
shadows fading in the haze
of what I couldn't say
and though I said my hands were tied
times have changed and now I find
I'm free for the first time
feel so close to everything now
strange how life makes sense in time now

and it feels like i'm flying above you
dream that i'm dying to find the truth
seems that your trying to bring me down
back down to earth back down to earth
back down to earth back down to earth x2

10   Unchained (Tales of the Unexpected) (04:18)

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 La genialità di tramutare malinconia, tristezza e piacere in sensazioni che accarezzano l'animo umano.

 "Hindsight" è una sorta di riedizione romantica e dolce dei loro brani più eccelsi.