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"Pubic Fruit" ovvero l'unione dei primi tre LP dei Curve, la band/duo formata da Dean Garcia e Tony Halliday. Reduci dal successo ottenuto con il loro primo lavoro "Doppelgänger" nello stesso anno, il '92, esce quest'album - compilation contenente le loro prime sperimentazioni del '91 che permisero al duo di poter proseguire nella loro (breve) carriera. Si parte con "The Blindofld EP" ed è già una vera sorpresa entrare in contatto con quattro tracce musicali così diverse da loro, spaziando dal rock, al grunge, all'elettronica, i bassi potenti (a volte fastidiosi); e così tra una composizione e un'altra risuona il ricordo e la volontà di continuare l'ondata dream-pop alternativa molto in voga in quel tempo, contaminata con qualche ritornello rap ("Ten Little Girls"), a volte rock ("I Speak Your Every Word"), il parlato a tratti impercettibile ("Blindfold", a mio avviso una delle migliori tracce), l'elettronica ("No Escape From Heaven").
Si continua con "The Frozen Ep" e già il titolo è un programma (se escludiamo la carica esplosiva di "Coast is Clear"): presenza di tracce molto più cupe, lente, a volte riecheggianti un dolore, un incubo, altre volte un qualcosa proveniente da tribù ("Zoo"). Il sound rimane comunque piuttosto personale e si lascia ascoltare. Infatti più volte la pecca degli album dei Curve è stata la loro voglia di strafare, inebetendo l'ascoltatore, peccando di presunzione nell'ambito Shoegaze, così facendo hanno perso gran parte di quel piccolo successo che avevano maturato, dando inoltre l'occasione ad altre band di raccogliere ciò che avevano seminato, con il risultato, non più riuscito, di riacquistare i loro fans che album dopo album rimanevano sempre più delusi.
Ma i Curve di "Pubic Fruit" invece sono integri e nonostante le loro sperimentazioni a volte così diverse hanno davvero il potere di farti allontanare dalla realtà e immedesimarti in un'atmosfera estranea, elettronica, spaziale, eterea. Si continua, infatti con l'ultimo Ep "The Cherry EP" : "Clipped" (inserita poi in "Doppelgänger") ci prepara al viaggio che pian piano intraprenderemo, passando attraverso "Die Like A Dog" in cui la voce si fa sempre più sottile lasciando spazio a un vero frastuono di suoni; è la volta della prima tappa di questo fantasioso tour tramite "Galaxy", in cui suoni lontani si mescolano sapientemente tra loro non rinunciando mai alla vena elettronica. Un merito e forse più di uno va, invece, alla title track ("Cherry") meritandosi tutti i miei complimenti per la straordinaria potenza e versatilità con cui avviene il passaggio dal sussurrio quasi scandito ad una vera e propria scatenante violenza, che sembra farti scorrere nella mente immagini surreali che si compongono davanti gli occhi mentre la barriera sonora viene infranta lasciandoti senza fiato. Un brivido mi scorre dentro ed è quasi magia. L'ultima traccia "Faît Accompli", qui presente in "Extended Mix" nulla aggiunge alla versione già presente nel loro primo lavoro.
Un misto d'ingredienti ben selezionati per l'entrata nella scena alternativa di questo gruppo. Peccato per le loro future scelte e per l'allontanamento da questo genere (forse un po' troppo abusato). Ciò non toglie che un ascolto lo meritano e sicuramente farebbe ancora piacere a qualcuno che siano ancora attivi musicalmente, magari con qualcosa che si avvicini e continui con i loro esordi.
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01 Ten Little Girls (04:27)
You think of no-one but yourself
You see the rest of us as fools
He said
don't feel guilty
don't go crazy
don't get paranoid with me
You play the prophet like a man
Makes no sense in the overall master plan
She said
don't feel guilty
don't go crazy
don't get paranoid with me
The arrogance of the youth
You wanna prove something
Picking up a microphone, starts one thinking older
As the fear starts to grow inside
See what it's like to live a lie
Nothing is like you thought it was
You felt the cause
Yhat you had, my friend is lost
Drifting away and if you play another day
Long ago, my friends, long ago
It doesn't matter what i say
You can push your luck away
Don't go crazy
Don't feel--
Don't get--
Now y'all know I
Will take you down with the sound so I
Know that time has passed
Climb into another rhyme designed too fast
From the well of deceipt he has to move on
It doesn't matter how we get a groove on
Now you find that you were younger then
Looking back don't ever pretend
That it was good as it was not, that's what we got
Busted out your friends, you know what you got
The truth right in your lap
That's a fact jack
The arrogance of youth is not claptrap
Nothing is right everything is wrong
Push your mike right to come along
Too strong
uh-huh, gettin older
And now you realise all the lies
That were otherwise
Because my eyes can see the truth, 'n reality...
Ten little girls come out to play
They didn't stand a chance they got blown away (say it isn't so)
Ten little boys come out to play
They didn't stand a chance they got blown away (say it isn't so)
Nine little girls got blown away (no, no, no, no)
They didn't even have their own place to stay (say it isn't so)
Nine little boys got blown away (no, no, no, no)
They didn't even have their own place to stay (say it isn't so)
...arrogance...
the arrogance of the youth
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03 Blindfold (04:32)
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
The stronger the man
The stronger the woman
If it ended now
Would you be willing
I've given you everything
I've given you nothing
See how it feels for me
Do you believe in me?
The stronger the man
The stronger the woman
If it ended now
Would you be willing
Do you believe in me?
See how it feels for me
04 No Escape From Heaven (04:21)
(THE Blindfold EP.)
I can see through your eyes, the back of your mind
All that's said is fiction, the blind leading the blind
I like to take your clothes off, and play for a while
Now hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime, and you are mine
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
I lie on the floor, don't open your eyes
Just listen to the sweetness of a slumber dive
Wake my heart of anger, let me in love
Push me into danger, give me a shove
Hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime, and you are mine
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
Hold my hand in summertime
Ohh just hold my hand in summertime
Hold me, hold me, hold me like you used to
Hold me, hold me, hold me like you used to
Hold me, like you used to
Hold me, like you used to
Hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime
Ohh Hold me, hold me, like you used to
05 Coast is Clear (04:01)
Above my bed in this ugly room
[hangs] the whisper of the sandman
You could [be my father]
for the ... [shown]
It's just a little too late
it's never enough to swallow those pills
Now I'm sick and always will be
Take it, I don't want it
you can have what you like
Just don't try to [trick me deceive]
then turn out those [lies]
Dreams [many ...] ([be my father])
[Just] when you thought it was all right
Coast is clear
06 The Colour Hurts (04:35)
In mongst the beginning
The final curtain descends
The doorway to dating
Has revealed, it smells tense
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Leave me alone
I was doing okay before
But now you're here, hold my hand
Now you've won, I understand
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Leave me alone
Ohh leave me alone
It's a [...] world for the complex is a [...] of sins
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Sell me some rebirth [repeat 4]
07 Frozen (03:59)
In my eyes you smile like an angel
Blessed with love, in this deep mine
In my mind you sound like a creature
Blessed with soon, in this deep mine
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
You are with me
Anyway, you cry like a baby
Blessed with [...], in this deep mine
You were born, and I were born
Waiting true for long to know
I will be, in this deep mine
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
You know, that man next door
Is getting on my nerves
Cos he's so rich in his low down politics
And you know his wife
She's such a pretty thing
09 Clipped (04:14)
Only in days, they get together
They're talking volumes, and drink some coffee
Clipped [...], clear and bright
They pour out [...], their own true mankind
There's no truth, it's extinct
There's no lies, that's gone too
There's no truth, it's extinct
There's no lies, that's gone too
All he says causes scandal
I've heard it said that he's the original of the vandal
He steals your words
Clears our mind
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
There's no way, like accepting
There's no way, that's damned sure
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
Hopelessly untrue
Yeah yeah
There's no truth
There's no lies
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
There's no way, you can move me
There's no way, for sure
There's no truth
There's no lies
10 Die Like a Dog (04:41)
(THE Cherry EP.)
Could've, inable
I will take the fall
Could've, [...]
I will play ball
Hiding inner hope
I am secret oath
I get black and cold
I won't play ball
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
I'd like to say, to say that I'd survive
I'd like to [...], to say that I'd survive
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone get heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Just try not to die like a dog
End up alone, freezing from the smog
I'm just trying not to die in vain
Then leave my mark, stake my claim
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world, Peace in a world, Peace in a world
Free from religion
Listen to my eyes clean
In colorful confessions
I remember mutual aggression
Is all in the body's lips
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