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Ho avuto modo, per ragioni che non sto a spiegarvi, di ascoltare in anteprima il nuovo album dei Depeche Mode dal titolo "Sounds Of The Universe" (versione assolutamente ufficiale e non pescata in qualche torrente).
Dopo il precedente "Playng The Angel" che a parer mio, e non solo mio, è stato uno degli album più belli degli ultimi 10 anni ero decisamente titubante su cosa aspettarmi da questo nuovo lavoro. Alla fine dei numerosi ascolti che ho avuto cura di fare prima di esprimermi definitivamente traggo una conclusione sintetica sull'album ma soprattutto sui Depeche Mode: Clonateli!
Dopo più di trent'anni di carriera e successi questi tre ricchi signori di mezz'età ci regalano un altro album fantastico e ancora una volta sorprendentemente innovativo nei suoni e nella realizzazione. In tutto l'album traspare una cura dei dettagli sorprendente ed una ricerca stilistica che sottolinea una raffinatezza ed una esperienza fuori dal comune. Tutto il disco è impreziosito da suoni elettronici dal gusto quasi vintage. Mi hanno richiamato alla mente certi film di fantascenza degli anni '70 o più banalmente i capolavori di Kubrick "2001 Odissea nello spazio" per l'atmosfera glaciale e immobile del "film di fantascienza perfetto" o il Ludovico van di in versione elettronica di "Arancia Meccanica", ma devo necessariamente citare anche le suggestioni elettroniche dei Kraftwerk con tutto quello che ne è derivato dagli anni '70 in poi. Questo soltanto per dare un'idea superficiale senza voler approfondire ogni singola sfumatura di cui il disco è ricchissimo. Tutto ciò inoltre non è buttato lì a caso, come gentile omaggio, ma costruito con una sapienza ed una eleganza che lasciano davvero esterrefatti.
13 canzoni in tutto. L'inizio è strepitoso, il brano di apertura "In Chains" probabilmente diventerà uno dei classici di sempre dei DM, con la sua melodia struggente e alienante, subito dopo si cade nel vortice di "Hole To Feed" che trascina con se tutto quello che incontra fino ad arrivare a "Wrong", il singolo, che forse non brilla per originalità ma ha un tiro clamoroso e risulta comunque del tutto convincente. Ma il pugno nello stomaco arriva con il quarto brano "Fragile Tension" brano strepitoso con una strofa strepitosa ed un ritornello delirante e distorto come. Il resto dell'album alterna momenti di bellezza assoluta a lievi cali. Straordinarie "In Simpathy", "Come Back", "Miles Away" davvero fantastica, ed il brano conclusivo "Corrupt" che è proprio il paradigma della musica dei DM. Un gradino sotto, a mio giudizio, "Little Soul" e "Jezebel" che mi hanno lasciato decisamente più freddo come anche "Peace" e "Perfect" belle canzoni si, ma non indimenticabili. Citazione finale per "Spacewalking" piccola gemma strumentale di poco meno di due minuti che racchiude in se tutto il senso dell'album e delle citazioni che ho fatto nella premessa.
Riassumendo nove canzoni di un altro pianeta e quattro normali. Tirate voi le conclusioni. Che Dio ci conservi questi ragazzi il più a lungo possibile.
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01 In Chains (06:52)
The way you move Has got me yearning The way you move Has left me burning I know you know what you�re doing to me I know my hands will never be free I know what it�s like to be In chains The way you move Is meant to haunt me The way you move To tempt and taunt me I know you knew on the day you were born I know somehow I should�ve been warned I know I walk every midnight to dawn In Chains In chains, I�m in chains In chains, I�m in chains You�ve got me dying for you Its you that I�m living through You�ve got me praying to you Saying to you anything you want me to You�ve got me reaching for you My souls beseeching me too You�ve got me singing to you Bringing to you anything you ask me to The way you move Is mesmerizing The way you move Is hypnotizing I know I crumble when you are around Start to mumble a bit of a false sound Straggle, stumble, shackled and bound In chains In chains, I�m in chains In chains, I�m in chains You�ve got me dying for you Its you that I�m living through You�ve got me praying to you Saying to you anything you want me to You�ve got me reaching for you My souls beseeching me too You�ve got me singing to you Bringing to you anything you ask me to I�m in chains In chains, I�m in chains In chains, I�m in chains In chains, I�m in chains
02 Hole to Feed (03:55)
We are here
We can love
We share something
I'm sure that you mean the world to me
Your name was the one that was always chosen
Your words and the kindness that set me free
The shame as a hole that has kept us frozen
You open my eyes to a world that I could believe
Words can leave you broken inside
You’ll have to decide
I'm hanging onto my pride
We are here
We can love
We share something
I'm sure that you mean the world to me
When you get What you need
there's no way of knowing
What you'll have is another hole to feed
Your games simple played you've left us hoping
The gift that we have the life that we breathe
This world could leave you broken inside
With nowhere to hide
I'm hanging onto my pride
We are here...
We've been chosen...
We've been blessed with the place we need to find and then open
We are here
We can love
We share something
I'm sure that you mean the world to me
When you get What you need
There's no way of knowing
What you'll have Is another hole to feed
03 Wrong (03:12)
I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong
There's something wrong with me chemically
Something wrong with me inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong genes
I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
It was the wrong plan
In the wrong hands
The wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong eyes on the wrong prize
The wrong questions with the wrong replies
Wrong
Wrong
I was marching to the wrong drum
With the wrong scum
Pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines
And the wrong signs
With the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
Made the wrong move, every wrong night
With the wrong tune played till it sounded right yeah
Wrong
Wrong
(Too long)
Wrong
(Too long)
I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong
04 Fragile Tension (04:09)
There's a fragile tension
That's keeping us going
It may not last forever
But, oh well, it's blowing
There's something magical in the air
Something so tragic we had to care
There's a strange obsession
That's drawing us nearer
We don't understand it
It never gets clearer
There's something mystical in our dreams
So simplistic, it kicks and screams
All we will seem to reek on the edge of collapse
Nothing can keep us down
There's a dizzying feeling
That's keeping us flying
Some glittering gauntlet
Without even trying
There's something radical in our hands
Nothing logical to our plans
07 Peace (04:27)
Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me
Iâ??m leaving bitterness behind
This time Iâ??m cleaning up my mind
There is no space for the regrets
I will remember to forget
Just look at me
I am walking of incoming
Look at the frequencies of which I vibrate
Iâ??m going to light up the world
Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me
Iâ??m leaving anger in the past
With all the shadows that it caused
There is radar in my heart
I should have trusted from the start
Just look at me
I am a living act of holiness
Giving all the positive virtues that I possess
Iâ??m going to light up the world
Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
It's meant to be
Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
Itâ??s inevitability
08 Come Back (05:15)
Come back Come back to me I�ve been waiting here patiently (Repeat 1x) I�ve been walking a thin white line Between love and hate I could use a lil company A lil kindness to go a long way Weeks turn into months Months turn into years Reaching the same conclusions Gathering up the fear Come back Come back to me I�ve been waiting here patiently (Repeat 1x) I�ve been walking a thin white line Between love and hate I could use a lil company A lil kindness to go a long way Weeks turn into months Months turn into years Reaching the same conclusions Gathering up the fear Come back Come back to me I�ve been waiting here patiently (Repeat 3x) Come back Come back to me (Repeat 1x)
12 Jezebel (04:38)
They call you Jezebel
Whenever we walk in
you're going straight to hell
For wanted acts of sin - they say,
and that I'll have to pay
But I need you just this way
They call you Jezebel
For what you like to wear
You're morally unwell
They say you never care for me
But what the fail to see is that your games are the key
Open their eyes to the beauty
Open their hearts to the fun
Open their minds to the idea that you don't own someone
They call you Jezebel
Whenever men walk by
They say that they can tell
The longing in your eyes is real
and how you really feel
But they can't see your appeal
Jezebel
13 Corrupt (05:03)
I could corrupt you
In a heartbeat
You think you're so special
Think you're so sweet
What are you trying?
Don't even tempt me
Soon, you'll be crying
And wishing you'd dreamt me
You'll be calling out my name
When you need someone to blame
I could corrupt you
It would be easy
Watching you suffer
Girl, it would please me
But I wouldn't touch you
With my little finger
I know it would crush you
My memory would linger
You'd be crying out in pain
Begging me to play my games
I could corrupt you
It would be ugly
They could sedate you,
But what good would drugs be?
But I wouldn't touch you
Put my hands on your hips
It would be too much to
Place my lips on your lips
You'd be calling out my name
Begging me to play my games
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Altre recensioni
Di Alevox
Sounds of the Universe non ha semplicemente nessun motivo, se non quello del nome che porta, per essere ascoltato.
Un vero peccato, perché con un gran singolo come 'Wrong' ci si aspettava grandi cose dal dodicesimo lavoro in studio della band.
Di donnie darko
Un album tosto, per nulla ruffiano, che credo possa conquistare il cuore dei fans come sta facendo con me.
Questo è un album che loro stessi hanno definito arrogante, e credo di aver capito il senso vero della frase.
Di biaspoint
‘Wrong’ è l’apice compositivo, una filastrocca senza un preciso ritornello, ma con una chiave di successo.
Un album da avere, da ascoltare attentamente e per molte volte, pieno di particolari e sempre al di sopra del proprio tempo.
Di Aragno
Niente rende più l'idea di quello che penso su questi 3 "ragazzi"... la classe è rimasta sempre uguale.
Sono certo che il suo valore emergerà anche per chi adesso fa' fatica a metabolizzarlo e se poi questo non dovesse accadere, pazienza... Tanto a me mi garba...
Di Breus
Il peggior album dopo 'Speak and Spell', con l'aggravante che questo era l'album d'esordio.
'Sounds of the Universe' è un disco noioso fin dall'inizio e non riesci a sentirlo intero neanche volendo.
