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Arrivo subito al punto: questo è davvero bello.
Sì, perchè con questo loro secondo album i suddetti Editors riescono a cimentarsi in qualcosa di più, musicalmente, rispetto sia alla loro precedente fatica, ma soprattutto nei confronti di altrettanti esponenti di un genere musicale tendente troppo spesso all'omologazione nonchè ripetizione.
E invece si rinviene una maturità raggiunta, ma con potenziali evolutivi, una maggior attenzione compositiva, una nuova "epicità" nel canto e nei temi. Abbandonando scomodi e ormai languidi "cugini" (vedi Interpol) ad impervi percorsi di necessario rinnovamento, gli Editors si ritagliano un ruolo preciso e autonomo nel panorama musicale della New-New Wave, se proprio vogliamo categorizzare; la loro dote è quella di essere in grado di trasmettere emozioni con un approccio musicale immediato e diretto, ma mai banale.
E forse qualche riff si somiglia fra le varie canzoni.
E forse gli effetti agli strumenti sono più o meno sempre quelli.
Ma le melodie sono robuste e intense, di spessore.
Tematiche non "comode": la malattia in primis; l'annichilimento umano nel momento dell'arrivo delle manifestazioni del tempo ormai passato; la caduta di corpo e spirito.
Ciò lo si denota nei testi del primo brano dell'album, la meravigliosa "Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors", in cui prende libero sfogo il pensiero della tristezza nel vedere una persona ("fumatrice"? non per forza), fuori dalla porta della sala ospedaliera, attendere notizie dello sfortunato caro.
O la pulsante TRACKLIST "An End Has A Start", nella quale forse sempre la stessa persona promette al caro/a di non deluderlo/a nell'assistenza.
Il patema della perdita del caro sfocia in istinto autodistruttivo nel brano "The Racing Rats", in cui un protagonista, ormai ubriaco, per non pensare osserva topi di strada rincorrersi e mira a gareggiare con essi.
Altrettanti episodi quali "Escape The Nest" o "Spiders" non si dimenticano.
Più che convincente.
Maturo.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (04:57)
Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees
Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again
I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'
I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken hearts
Left smashed off the floor
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken hearts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken hearts
Smashed off the floor
Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken hearts smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken hearts smashed off the floor)
02 An End Has a Start (03:45)
I don’t think that it’s
Gonna rain again today
There's a devil at your side,
But an angel on the way
Someone hit the light,
Cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye,
I saw everywhere I'd been
And wanna go to...
You came on your own,
And that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands,
And air to breathe
I won’t disappoint you,
As you fall apart
Some things should be simple,
Even an end has a start
Someone hit the light,
Cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye,
I saw everywhere I'd been
And wanna go to...
You came on your own,
And that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands,
And air to breathe
You'll lose everything,
By the end,
Still my broken limbs,
You find time to mend
More and more people I
Know are getting ill
Pull something good from the
Ashes now be still
You came on your own,
That's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands,
And air to breathe,
You'll lose everything
By the end,
Still my broken limbs,
You choose to mend
You came on your own,
That's how you'll leave
You came on your own,
That's how you'll leave
You came on your own
You came on your own
03 The Weight of the World (04:18)
Keep a light on those you love
They will be there when you die
Baby there's no need to fear
Baby there's no need to cry
Every little piece in your life
Will add up to one
Every little piece in your life
Will it mean something to someone?
You fuse my broken bones
Back together and then
Lift the weight of the world
From my shoulders again
Every little piece in your life
Will add up to one
Every little piece in your life
Will it mean something to someone?
Every little piece in your life
Will add up to one
Every little piece of your life
Will mean something to someone
You touch my face
God whispers
In my ear
There are tears in my eyes
Love replaces fear
You touch my face
God whispers
In my ear
There are tears in my eyes
Love replaces fear
Fear
Every little piece in your life
Will add up to one
Every little piece in your life
Will mean something to someone
Every little piece in your life
Will add up to one
Every little piece of your life
Will mean something to someone
04 Bones (04:06)
How can you always be late for your arrival?
You know I forgive you every single time
Retreat, retreat
I've fallen at the low tide
Oh retreat, retreat
And meet me by the quayside
In the end all you can hope for
Is the love you felt to equal the pain you've gone through
Are your eyes showing off for mine
Your face in my hands is everything good I need
The system's put in place, put there to protect us
For you I'd throw a lifeline every time
Oh Retreat, retreat
I've fallen at the low tide
Now retreat, retreat
And meet me by the quayside
In the end all you can hope for
Is the love you felt to equal the pain you've gone through
Are your eyes showing off for mine
Your face in my hands is everything good I need
Bones, starved of flesh
Surround your aching heart
Full of love
Oh bones, starved of flesh
Surround your aching heart
Full of love
Bones, starved of flesh
Surround your aching heart
Bones
Oh bones
I watch as your eyes show off for mine
I watch as your eyes show off
I watch as your eyes show off for mine
I watch as your eyes show off
05 When Anger Shows (05:45)
It creeps all over you like a dull ache
Think of all the things your hands could make
It pulls you to the ground like soaking wet gloves
The change in your face when anger shows
In that moment you realise
That something you thought would always be there will die
Like everything else
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
You are a sleeping lion in your bed
I will not wake you
You're the moment
Love has passed
We all must learn to hate you
You're a memory from before
Please don't let me forget you
You're the wolves at my door
In that moment you realise
That something you thought would always be there will die
Like everything else
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know what things are worth
If your hands wont move to do a days work?
How can you know...
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
These thoughts I must not think of
Dreams I cant make sense of
I need you to tell me its ok
06 The Racing Rats (04:17)
When the time comes
You're no longer there
Fall down to my knees
Begin my nightmare
Words spill from my drunken mouth
I just can't keep them all in
I keep up with the racing rats
And do my best to win
Slow down little one
You can't keep running away
You mustn't go outside yet
It's not your time to play
Standing at the edge of your town
With the skyline in your eyes
Reaching up to God
The sun says its goodbyes
If a plane were to fall from the sky
How big a hole would it leave
In the surface of the earth
Let's pretend we never met
Let's pretend we're on our own
We live different lives
Until our covers blown
I push my hand up to the sky
Shade my eyes from the sun
As the dust settles around me
Suddenly nightime has begun
If a plane were to fall from the sky
How big a hole would it leave
In the surface of the earth
The surface of the earth
Come on now
You knew you were lost
But you carried on anyway
Oh come on now
You knew you had no time
But you let the day drift away
If a plane were to fall from the sky
How big a hole would it leave
If a plane were to fall from the sky
How big a hole would it make
In the surface of the earth
The surface of the earth x2
07 Push Your Head Towards the Air (05:44)
If I lay face
down on the ground,
would you walk all over me?
Have we learnt
What we set out to learn?
well then love we will see.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
Push your head towards the air.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
I will always be there.
When you fall and you,
Can't find your way,
Push a hand up to the sky.
I will run just to,
To be by your side,
Don't you ever bat an eye.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
Push your head towards the air.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
I will always be there
"But I will tear the price from your head,
And keep you from harm" that's what you said.
There's people climbing out of their cars
Lining the roadside,
Try to glimpse at the dead.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
Push your head towards the air.
Now don't drown in your tears, babe
I will always be there.
08 Escape the Nest (04:43)
Buildings in clouds here
Our time and our place dear
Theres life in us yet love
These walls we will climb above
We really our ants now
Escape the nest somehow
I ache for a feeling
You came and you poured it in, it in
Buildings in clouds here
Our time and our place dear
Theres life in us yet love
These walls we will climb above, above
Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights from the town
Im drained and im empty
Ive still got love in me
Theres eyes in the sky tonight
Watching us lose the fight
We really are ants now
Escape the nest somehow
I ache for a feeling
You came and you poured it in, it in
Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights from the town
Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights of the town
09 Spiders (04:00)
Theres spiders in your room
But there always will be
There's people to be fooled
And there always has been
Hold out your hand
Hold out your hand
Or we'll carry you
Hold out your hand
Hold out your hand
Come back to me
Come back to me
With your back to the wall
You've got one place to fall
Sometimes its all better (on your own?)
Every little piece pulls
In its own direction
Please love dont be scared
It's just your own reflection
Hold out your hand
Hold out your hand
Or we'll carry you
Hold out your hand
Hold out your hand
Come back to me
Come back to me
With your back to the wall
You've got one place to fall
Sometimes its all better (on your own?)
[x3]
10 Well Worn Hand (02:56)
Wake up my love
Today I heard some bad news
Just what are we all supposed to do?
I won't let them get to you
I don't want to go out on my own anymore
I cant face the night like I used to before
Take my well worn hand
Let's lock ourselves away
We'll never, ever step outside
We'll curl up in a ball and hide
I don't want to go out on my own anymore
I cant face the night like I used to before
I don't want to go out on my own anymore
I cant face the night like I used to before
I'm so sorry for the things that they've done
I'm so sorry about what we've all become
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Altre recensioni
Di tomgil
Quando ci si trova di fronte ad un disco come "An end has a start" bisogna innanzitutto chiedersi, anche laddove il disco piaccia, quanto ci sia di autentico.
"When anger shows" è il miglior brano dell'intero disco, un connubio perfetto tra una melodia ispirata e malinconica e un ritornello rock coinvolgente e azzeccato.
Di Mopaga
La ripetitività delle ritmiche e delle melodie rende l’ascolto simile a una catena di suoni già sentiti.
An End Has A Start somiglia a The Back Room che rimanda allo stile degli Interpol che si ispirano ai Joy Division, completando il puzzle delle similitudini.
Di popoloitaliano
Questo è assolutamente un gruppo derivativo.
Quando la batteria dei Joy Division si fonde con riff alla U2, nasce l'anima degli Editors.
Di Taurus
"Un inno alla gioia che esplode in un gustoso ritornello."
"The Racing Rats: refrain a dir poco epico e coinvolgente."
