Qualcuno, me compreso, temeva che l'universo Faithless avesse smesso di generare big-bang; beh così non è stato. Il 27 novembre scorso è arrivata questa perla.
In tutti i suoi abbondanti 55 minuti l'ascoltatore si trova immerso in un eterogeneo bagno di suoni, infarciti dall'elettronica, predominante ma mai invasiva.
L'album si apre con "Bombs", primo singolo a dire il vero uno dei pezzi meno riusciti dell'album che tocca diverse vette nelle tracce sucessive:
in "Music Matters", con un'atmosfera avvolgente ed un ritornello che fatichi a mandare via dalla testa; nella stumentale "I Hope", dove una vaga ritmica d'n'b sostiene gli intrecci elettronici, nella ripetitività ciclica della brevissima ma intensa "Nates Tune".
I veri picchi il disco li raggiunge con "Last This Day", struggente, con il cantato delicato che toglie via il respiro; con la veloce ed ipnotica "Emergency" che chiude degnamente il disco, ma soprattutto con "Spiders Crocodiles And Krypton", dove all'improvviso esplode il campionamento di "Lullaby" dei Cure (con la voce registrata ex-novo per l'occasione da Robert Smith).
Il lettore CD piange quando devi spegnerlo e porre fine al repeat su questo disco.
"Please, last this day, stay one more day".
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01 Bombs (04:59)
If I don't get out of this I I wish, I just want you to know that I really really love you.
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
We think we're heroes, we think we're kings
We plan all kinds of fabulous things
Oh look how great we have become
Key in the door, the moment I've been longing for
Before my bag hit the floor
My adorable children rush up screaming for a kiss,
and a story, they're a gift to this world
My only claim to glory
I surely never knew sweeter days
Blows my mind like munitions
I'm amazed
So much heaven, so much hell
So much love, so much pain
So much more than I thought this world could ever contain
So much war, so much soul
Moments lost, moments go
So much more than I thought this world can ever hold
We're just children, we're just dust
We are small and we are lost
And we're nothing, nothing at all
One bomb, the whole block gone
Can't find me children and dust covers the sun
Everywhere is noise, panic and confusion
But to some, another fun day in Babylon
I'm gonna bury my wife and dig up my gun
My life is done so now I got to kill someone
So much heaven, so much hell
So much love, so much pain
So much more than I thought this world could ever contain
So much war, so much soul
Moments lost, moments go
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much heaven, so much hell
So much love, so much pain
So much more than I thought this world could ever contain
So much war, so much soul
Moments lost, moments go
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
06 Last This Day (05:09)
binds to the skin
they're the same
neither sun nor sand
tubes to the mouth
cannot laugh or sigh
or even cry
a drop in the ocean
a second and all time
one stop in the endless sky
but you mean
the whole world to me
you're an island of light
so please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day
stay one more
stay one more
stay one more day
just one more
just one more
just one more day
all this madness around us
you are no one
and so still
you were made in love
grew in hope
were born in pain
you left them running round
trying to make you breath again
one tiny link
in and endless chain
but you mean
the whole world to me
you're an island of light
so please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day
07 To All New Arrivals (05:03)
In our world, Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds.
11 Million children die every year of mal-nutrition.
(To all new arrivals, welcome)
In our world, 15 Million children have been orphaned by AIDS.
30,000 children die of preventable causes every day.
(To all new arrivals, welcome)
In our world, 2 million children are working in the sex trade this moment.
1.1 Billion people in the world, earn less than a dollar a day.
To All New Arrivals
We love you
We would die for you
Kill for you
To All New Arrivals
We love you
We would die for you
Kill for you
Welcome, welcome, welcome
If there's a god,
Be aware
I'm a man newly made
My son rise here
And only of him
Am I afraid
And I gaze into that face
I can see that it is true
I created him
And we created you
In his image
To All New Arrivals
We love you
We would die for you
Kill for you
To All New Arrivals
We love you
We would die for you
Kill for you
To All New Arrivals
We love you
We would die for you
Kill for you
You're welcome, welcome, welcome.....
08 Hope & Glory (05:01)
When I arrive eyes wide fired up
Tried not to slide and let the side down
Now the planes on the ground i'll find a good profession it's 1957
I've come to the mother land to make a home to put my bed in
this weather does my head in some people are less than kind I wish
mamma was here so I could unwind
but I'm supposed to be the good news so I lace up these hard black shoes
and look more work the streets whenever paved with gold they simply make my feet hurt, they just make my feet hurt
just a little money in my pocket and a little bit left for those I love
to have enough food on my table and a little bit more for those who call
in this land of hope and glory you'd think there's enough for us all
you'd think there's enough for us all
When I arrive eyes wide petrified
Tried not to cry and let the side down
now the planes on the ground, it'S 20 years later mummas in the arrival lounge
I take a few seconds to kiss her then look around at what's happened to my home town
What's going on, but papa doesn't look too strong
rush home in a cab, windows up
now I hear dad cough, we gotta get in before they switch the lights and water off
for the night, i have to get to know the guard dogs cause they bite
progress just pass us by to the right
just a little money in my pocket and a little bit left for those I love
to have enough food on my table and a little bit more for those who call
in this land of hope and glory you'd think there's enough for us all
you'd think there's enough for us all
09 A Kind of Peace (04:14)
being here in the darkness, starless sky
it's quieter than a church before the crowds arrive
and the world is mine
and no one else sees with my thanks and love in my thoughts
and wishes to give and to ask
it's a kind of peace
it's a kind of peace (3x)
with the years doors have been locked and windows closed
and the things I'm sure I knew are no longer due
but I see comfort in my home in my heart
to make a kind of peace
it's a kind of peace
and above me
if there is nothing and no one knew I really care
it's just a now, a now I prefer
not the future and not the past
so put the chairs to one side and let us dance
it's a strange kind of peace
it's a kind of peace
it's a strange kind of peace
it's a kind of peace
being here in the darkness, starless sky
it's quieter than a church before the crowds arrive
and the world is mine
and no one else sees with my thanks and love in my thoughts
and wishes to give and to ask
it's a kind of peace
it's a kind of peace
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