Anno 2004.
Cinque giovani inglesi di Bristol, tra i venti ed i trent'anni, pubblicano "Lick Your Ticket", un album fulminante! Un mix di stili diversi (dalla drum n' bass al rock, dalla new wave al pop e ancora indie con spruzzate di elettronica...) che si conciliano con grande originalità e notevole impatto sonoro.
Una chitarra, una batteria, due tastiere, sintetizzatori a gogo e una voce.
Un modo nuovo e particolare di creare musica, mischiando la tradizione più mainstream di certi giri di chitarre pop ai suoni futuristici di una sezione ritmica dai bassi con sonorità parecchio artificiali, che naviga su un mare di suoni elettronici prodotti dall'immancabile synth, che contribuisce notevolmente alla costruzione della melodia presente nei pezzi.
E come legante di tutto sto marasma c'é la voce di Rupert Browne, dolorante, ferita, ma a tratti sollevata e scanzonata, che recita testi di criptica protesta:
"AMBIZIONE non é una parola sporca per i Chikinki, ma non é nemmeno divertimento. Scrivono inni ad alto voltaggio sulla lussuria, la disperazione, l'eccesso, la paranoia e l'euforia..."
(Tratto dal loro sito ufficiale).
Formazione anomala, dunque, questa dei Chikinki, che riesce però con buona maestria ad unire generi apparentemente lontani anni luce tra loro in un suono riconducibile, coeso, senza perdersi (forse solo di tanto in tanto...) nei meandri dei generi considerati.
Insomma, un piacevole ritorno al futuro!
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Assassinator 13 (04:01)
I'm gonna make my way to the deep underground
Find myself a come down fix
Kicks get me down like a stone in my crown
I'm gonna make my way to the wrong side of town
Found myself a come back kid
To rid these bones of the dirty sounds
Met a girl, on the bus
And she had asked to take me on
So lick your ticket adn take a ride
Sex is fun when you are high
Ride on ride on ride on
I'm gonna make my way to the deep underground
Find myself a come down fix
Kicks get me down like a stone in my crown
I'm gonna make my way to the wrong side of town
Found myself a come back kid
To rid these bones of the dirty sounds
Time to time you feel you've found
But more and more you long to score
So light, your mouth and shoot your brain
If just to feel the devil's pain
Ride on ride on ride on
Alcohol numbs the soul
It doesn't stop you getting old
So ask the answer to your pain
Oh the sweet bright red chariot that burns away
Ride on ride on ride on
02 Ether Radio (02:42)
I was feeling tired when I came back home
I didn't know the number on the telephone
Then I heard the sweetest voices
Calling through the dry ether radio
Ether radio, ether radio
As I lit the fire I felt the burn
Crimson like a lion, Hindenburg
Then I had the strangest feeling
That the phones connected to my ether radio
Ether radio, ether radio
I know its 3 a.m. and I know you're old I knew I woke you from sleeping, I should let you go
But I just had to know you weren't
Big Brother listening to my feelings
Phones connected to my ether radio
Ether radio, ether radio, ether radio, ether radio
04 Hate TV (03:53)
The trains are all mixed up
The times are wrong
Thereš people everywhere
Adn I'm feeling this rush
My weakness is not letting me breath the air
She crosses my line
And I forget the time
She crosses my line
And I forget that I'm breathing
My computer makes a fool of me
It spits me out half naked
Sending me out to sea
Soaking me
Daring me to make it
She hates the machines
But she likes it when the sky is falling
She hates the TV
But she likes it when the sea is calling
Up, let's go
Leadf me to the world which you know
Been don
There's nothing left us for the sun
I'm scared and I haven't the patience to see it through
I run around to waste my time
It's never right the way it is
But she is alright
I love her the way she is
She hates the TV
But she likes it when the sky is falling
she hates the machines
But she likes it when the sea is calling
Oh let's go
Lead me to the world that you know
been done
There's nothing left for us the sun
I'm scared and I haven't the patience to see it through
05 Staple Nation (02:48)
You unplugged this information
When you put pen to paper
You wrote it ten times to amend it later
Before it became the wall
Then you started to scream
And the world was in a mess
You made your peace
Reflected in the stillness
You let loose at the publishing house
With your back catalogue of spells
You swore ten times that there was nothing wrong
and that all was well
Then you started to scream
And the world was in a mess
You made your peace
Reflected in the stillness
Then you started to scream
And the world was in a mess
You made your peace
Reflected in the stillness
Then you started to scream
And the world was in a mess
You made your peace
Reflected in the stillness
06 All Eyes (04:05)
All eyes drowning in her form
That's drowning in the fires
All forms drowning in her eyes
Undone from all her trials
Sun dry, hydra hurricane
And lightnings move through the sky
Soft feet shuffling in time
To bell indolent chime
And I try to relize
My burning eye
That is my soul
It tries to carry away my sense on wings of dust
And I like you a lot
Take my reliefs, take my belief
In my head in my room in my bed
Maybe I'm a fool
Come fire, light surrounds you now
I know you're all so mine
Walk me naked in my, my purest seas I'm drowned
Until the light that could keep up my wretched back
Each time I try to realise my sign I'm done
08 To Sacrifice a Child (04:01)
You spout out what they said to sacrifice a child
And smelt their burning heads to sacrifice a child
And I can see the tears, a queue and men and senses
And I can hear the screams
You have their weeping hearts to sacrifice a child
When you spot your virgin bed to sacrifice a child
And I can feel your dreams of losing your innocence
And I can hear the screams
Ah you want to hit the wall
You wanna climb the wall
I don't want to know anymore
I don't want to know anymore
They sowed what you may reap to sacrifice a child
When you cried yourself to sleep to sacrifice a child
And I can hear the screams
Yes I can hear the screams
I don't want to know anymore
I don't want to know anymore
09 Bombs (03:15)
I can make your head turn with just one word
I don't need no bombs to make my voice heard
Why when you strike me do you think I'll agree?
Which bit did you not like to begin with?
All those eternal songs
Rolling from your tongues
Dogmatic, xenophobic, folly
I can make your head turn with just one word
I don't need no bombs to make my voice heard
I can make you see that there's both you and me
What else could there be that we so need?
You can choose to ignore
But I've made you make that choice
New fangled ways to use your voice
So much money wasted
I'd like to bring you paper
We're all just as mad as each other
I can make your head turn with just one word
I don't need no bombs to make my voice heard
I can make you see pas both you and me
What else could there be that we so need?
10 Like It or Leave It (03:47)
I let her on the inside and oh, I can't leave her alone
I caught a glimpse of her rose, no I can't leave her alone
My bids for freedom went wrong cause I can't leave her alone
I see my enemies go strong, but I can't leave her alone
No I can't leave her alone
And she said
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Just say no, oh just say no
I make it seem like life is a river streaming from my heart
I stretched my car's by the road before I even start
I let you get inside and oh I can't leave her alone
I bleed her every moan, I can't leave her alone
No I can't leave her alone
And she said
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Baby baby baby please like it or leave it
Just say no, oh just say no
Just say no, no, just say no
Like it or leave it, just say no
hey hey hey
11 Time (03:46)
Time, time is my enemy
He steals my lover from me
And then he laughs while he sets up siege
On my friends and my family
Time, time is my enemy
He steals my lover from me
And then he laughs while he sets up siege
On my friends and my family
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
He's at the station, looking down at me
He throws me sex and drugs and bad TV
Until I'm left with jealousy
Or sucking at his breats lovingly
I give in, give up, give him back his cup
Say sorry for my words its the shushing that worked
And I'm left with just the tears of my lover
And the corpses of others and then I scream
My lover and me, oh it's all I need
And oh lover, it's forever and whatever
Time, time reaches for his gun,
Puts it back and tells me I've won
but he laughs because he thinks it's fun
And asks me what the hell I've fucking dome
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
Tick tick go the vampire clocks
All these years and then he mocks
And tickety tick got the grandfather clocks
Well there's no rest here he says
Like the ghost whispering in my ear
I give in, give up, give him back his cup
Say sorry for my words its the shushing that worked
And I'm left with just the tears of my lover
And the corpses of others and then I scream
My lover and me, oh it's all I need
My lover and me, oh it's all I need
And oh lover, it's forever and whatever
And oh lover, it's forever and whatever
12 Forever (03:09)
Streets softly murmur, soft as forever sleeps tonight
my words lie open, words are spoken, my delight
Too clear, two years, forever part of me
The summer beckons and some might reckon more than this
This love grown strong
Loves more the longer it exists
Holds true, Hold you forever part of me
Streets softly murmur, soft as forever sleeps tonight
My words lie open, words are spoken, my delight
Too clear, two years, forever part of me
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