Li avevo persi di vista, vuoi per i mille ascolti che ogni giorno hai a disposizione, vuoi perchè gli ultimi album tra raccolte, ri-cover delle cover ecc. non mi avevano entusiasmato molto, pensavo ad un loro declino artistico o di pesantezza del genere, arrivato alla frutta per le masse, senza più un vero significato di esistere.
Ed invece sono rimasto veramente stupito da questo "Nightbird" un bel lavoretto di 11 songs tutte analog-sound e melodie da prime lezioni, rifinite da una pura ritmica tecno-pop, che con l'inconfondibile ed unica voce di un grande Andy Bell, ricamano questa alchimia di suoni medio bassi che ti entrano dritti nell'anima e nel corpo senza più controllo, facendoti per forza di cose saltellare e sognare.
Era dai tempi di "Chorus" che non sentivo così tanto entusiasmo compositivo, il grande Vince (Clarke),che ha ormai dimenticato di essere stato ex nella storia di questo genere è riuscito in un paio di anni, con l'assistenza dei fan via internet, a mettere insieme un bel lavoretto elettropop, senza essere banale nelle melodie.
Tutto l'album suona da meraviglia, i brani sono quasi tutti sullo stesso livello sia di qualità che di estetica, spiccano comunque brani come, "Sweet Surrender", con suoni molto Kraut-armonium da inno europeo, "Breathe", semplice ma piacevole, "Don't Say You Love Me" e "Because Our Love Is Real", belle e molto rimembrative dello splendido "Chorus", "All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love", quasi maranza, ma con un andamento molto gay-club, "Here I Go Impossible Again", intensa e romantica, "No doubt" e "Let's Take One More Rocket To The Moon", splendidi capolavori di armonia, per finire con la dolce "I Bet You're Mad At Me" e via via tutte le altre che girano più o meno sulla stessa frequenza.
Sicuramente il successo di fine anni ottanta, questa volta se lo devono dimenticare, ma comunque loro ce l'hanno messa tutta ed è giusto che siano premiati per lo sforzo. Un Album che l'amante del genere deve assolutamente avere, gli altri magari un po' meno! Alle masse l'ardua sentenza.
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01 No Doubt (03:58)
Where it is you wont say, but it hurts
Put your lips next to mine and apart
Why wont you open your heart?
I feel it coming it grows up my spine
I'm dying to show you what love is about
The tears that are falling
There's no room for doubt
For all the changes we've been through
It's an art just to give, will I learn?
To visualize what you want from my life
It's more than enough just to gaze in your eyes
I'm dying to show you what love is about
To tease you and please you
We must work it out
I know all your secrets so sad
For all the changes we've been through
02 Here I Go Impossible Again (03:41)
How many dreams am I looking for in your eyes, in your eyes
Ooh baby bet it seems that you're reaching down, all alone, on your own
Dreams are emotion baby, you know you gotta try
How am I supposed to know what's in your head, what's on your mind
I'm searching for your love that's in your heart I need it
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
I know I put you on a pedestal in my eyes, in my eyes
I don't like it when you put me down 'cause it hurts, yeah it hurts
Win some and lose some baby, you know you gotta try
I feel it my heart and in my soul and through my veins
Falling from my lips three little words 'I love you'
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
Dive into the ocean baby you know you gotta try
How am I supposed to know what's in your head, what's on your mind
I'm searching for your love that's in your heart I need it
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
04 Breathe (03:49)
Twenty-seven times I paint the city in lights
Now I changed my mind
I was living fast now I'm running on empty
And I feel yeah I feel
You're gonna go, let me go
Breathe, and I breathe
It's bitter without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Stood the test of time
Though I treated you rough you were always kind
I let my head rule my heart now I'm feeling so lonely
And I feel it's the deal
You're letting me go gonna go
Breathe and I breathe
Hollow without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
Empty without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe, and I breathe
It's bitter without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
Empty without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
I can't live without you I can't live with you
And I'm in love with you
10 Sweet Surrender (03:59)
All the miles of glory really mean nothing to me
It's our love here, we are invisible again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
And searching for so long, it will stay with me forever
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
No religion and choruses again
But it won't leave me desolate and angry
Are there no poets in politics again
See the window upon the free world closing slowly
And poor men crawl upon your boney knees again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
And searching for so long, it will stay with me forever
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Holy roller and passion play again
On this day that I don't care to remember
No religion and choruses again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
I feel lost as a dying rose in embers
No religion and choruses again
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Are there no poets in politics again
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Holy roller and passion play again
On this day that I don't care to remember
No religion and choruses again
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