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Dura scorza tecnologica. Un ritmo incalzante. Si citano i vecchi maestri, dal synth pop anni '80 ai Kraftwerk, ma con classe, raffinatezza.
I Ladytron prediligono un tipo di elettronica molto fredda, ancor piú in questo secondo lavoro che fa seguito al brillante "604".
Si inaspriscono le tendenze ai ritmi ossessivi, molto duri. Tuttavia la piacevolezza della proposta è garantita dal gusto per la melodia e l'ironia, due elementi che mitigano le tendenze piú estreme della loro musica.
La voce canta con tono distaccato arie indifferenti. Melodie che si insinuano nella mente, si canticchiano.
La tecnologia accetta e incorpora l'elemento umano.
Ecco quindi affiorare un'anima. Viene infusa, dotata di bellezza interiore, si insinua lentamente ma prende il suo posto, irremovibile. Parole scarne, semplici, efficaci : "They only want you when you're 17 when you're 21 you're no fun" (da "Seventeen"). Ironia, elemento ludico che non guasta.
Si prosegue. I battiti sintetici avanzano. Rallentano. Si riprendono. Si arricchiscono. Ancora frasi brevi, evocative: "Think, everyone that you kiss, do they cease to exist when you stop being missed?" (da "Cease 2 xist").
È un sound che si lascia ascoltare ovunque ma che conserva sempre un marcato spirito "dance". I vari elementi si amalgano senza sforzo e il prodotto ottenuto si presenta tagliente, preciso, aromatico.
Non abbiate paura... C'è un cuore che batte sotto la dura scorza che lo ricopre. Le macchine sono ancora al servizio dell'uomo.
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 True Mathematics (02:22)
Sluntseto presiča tiahnata daga
Na piasaka risuvat, blestiašta svetlina.
Iz grada te tičat,
Tuk tame nadničat,
Burzo se obličat,
Pogled ne privličat.
Slunčo gi prispiva v toploto kreslo
Tiho šte broiat do šest-stotin i edno
Iz grada te tičat,
Tuk tame nadničat,
Burzo se obličat,
Pogled ne privličat.
02 Seventeen (04:37)
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one
You're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know
So come on
(*repeat 7 times*)
We only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one
You're no fun
03 Flicking Your Switch (03:26)
Stole your visa card & took a trip downtown
I don't really care that there is people around
923816 is the sound that I'm flickering your switch
815194 does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
Does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
I'm so happy that you're coming down to play
Now I'm the only one to make the decisions anyway
369248 is the sound of them play with your head
815194 does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
Does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
It's about time you shut off the city lights
Now I don't recall there being moronic signs
923816 is the sound of them flickering your switch
815934 does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
Does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
815194 does this mean you dont trust me anymore?
Does this mean you don't trust me anymore?
04 Fire (02:49)
A red cell, a perfect view out of the
Novotel, sat gently listening to
This song, "it started over again"
And the girl gets higher, the room is on fire
If you want her, let it go, hello,
The sun went in, and it started over again
Linking an encyclopaedia of nothing
In half-written signatures and false names
"it started over again"
And the girl gets higher, the room�s on fire
If you want her, let it go, hello,
The lights went out and it started over again.
06 Blue Jeans (04:13)
Straight lines that cut through the scene
like you wanted to, blue jeans.
Soft loans that spent all last summer
buying drinks for you, blue jeans.
Left hand that crashed near your house
in the ice and snow, blue jeans.
A face outside sleeping pressed against
the bay window, blue jeans.
You've been trying to protect me,
An insect living in your memory,
Don't, blue jeans won't cut at the seams,
Like you want them to.
You don't need me to show the way now
they're onto you, blue jeans.
And I won't be phoning you today
unless you want me to, blue jeans.
You've been trying to protect me,
An insect living in your memory,
Don't, blue jeans won't cut at the seams,
Like you want them to
*
07 Cracked LCD (02:32)
Back to summertime. It was almost 6 months to the day.
Eyes clock to his hand.
Liquid crystals on his watch catch rays of morning peeking through.
Moving the pillows out of the way. Tries to make the time.
Falls asleep with his watch on again.
Cracked LCD.
He has got last years summertime, the one she liked.
On daylight saving time, hoping that the world catch up with him
before he catches her.
It happens once a year. She'd better run.
Was summertime for all. Alpine retreat off the A40.
Cracked LCD
Rising out of the slopes
Plastic snow and wooden trees surround
She felt they had it all
Pulling curtains over dreamy face
Sealing off the globe
Waiting for a spark to start the fire
Cracked LCD
08 Black Plastic (04:17)
Someone's coming round in the evening
One touch on the face of a city.
Boy/black plastic chair with some time to spare
Black plastic, touching black plastic
Someone's coming round in the evening
One touch on the face of a city.
Boy/black plastic chair with some time to spare
Black plastic, touching black plastic
One touch on the face of a city.
Boy/black plastic chair with some time to...
Drawing on face of a girl who is sleeping
Black plastic chair, reaching out, making one touch
09 Evil (05:34)
When a menthol hit, hooks a spatial girl in her summer clothes,
Like a transmission, on an empty channel, all lines are closed.
Taking photographs, speaking slowly through the permanent waves
The taste in her mouth that she read about earlier today
This is happening for your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want
When a menthol hit, hooks a spatial girl in her summer clothes,
Like a transmission, on an empty channel, all lines are closed.
Taking photographs, speaking slowly through the permanent waves
The taste in her mouth that she read about earlier today
This is happening for your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want
This is happening for your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want
When the night becomes, automatic sequence joining the day,
Singing something new, someone else is sliding into your way.
When a menthol hit, hooks a spatial girl in her summer clothes,
Like a transmission, on an empty channel, all lines are closed.
Got to get you off my conscience by Friday,
On Saturday I'll be wide awake, On Sunday I'm your new best friend,
On Monday learn it all again
For your pleasure, at your leisure
Use your evil, when you want.
*
10 Startup Chime (03:30)
School holiday that she could do without,
A weekend break that slept in late.
A beach resort under a year of rain,
This is where it has to start.
When the AC hum inside your sleepy head,
Drowns the startup chime inside your heart,
Technology is there to cure yourself,
This is where it has to start
Unfamiliar brand falls from an empty shelf,
Without sounding an alarm,
The test results tell you nothing at all,
This is where it has to start.
When the AC hum inside your sleepy head,
Drowns the startup chime inside your heart,
Technology is there to cure yourself,
this is where it has to start.
The Northern Lights are just a band for hire,
Playing class reunions without end.
The test results tell you nothing at all....
Technology is there to cure yourself....
A dusty cartridge from the VCs is on the way to see old friends,
This is where it has to start.
11 Nuhorizons (04:03)
Oblatsi prez reshetki
Kolektsii ot sulfetki
Vlakove, motoretki
Raziadeni podmetki
Klameni v ruka
Konets prez igla
Igratchki v torba
Lista vuv kosa
Oblatsi prez reshetki
Kolektsii ot sulfetki
Vlakove, motoretki
Raziadeni podmetki
Hvurlena guma
Iztrita duma
12 Cease2xist (04:37)
High,
21st of July,
You know the thought is all wrong,
but the feeling is right.
Say,
on the 19th of May,
turn it on close the door,
and then set to ignore.
Hey, where did you come from?
And why don't you stay where you belong?
Think, everyone that you kiss,
do they cease to exist when you stop being missed?
You live
in someone else's song.
Have you been there too long,
or not long enough?
Yes, what did you leave behind?
Another weekend expires,
with no definite signs.
Hey, where did you come from?
And why don't you stay where you belong?
Think, everyone that you kiss,
do they cease to exist when you stop being missed?
14 Light & Magic (03:35)
The kids are freed, now all they need is a gift from their mum and dad
They heard the tones, of Spanish phones stranded in the sand.
You left on the lights, is there somebody home
You left on the lights, is there somebody home
Left on the lights, is there somebody home, light and magic
You cut your hair and made a friend, now they're falling into you
This is the closest that you will get to them, how do you do?
You left on the lights, is there somebody home
Switched off your voicemail and left it alone
Left on the lights, is there somebody home, light and magic
Then lost some time in someone's line, might just've caught the show
This is not real, but it will deal with this thing between tonight and
tomorrow...
By the beach in a one-storey building, you're lucky if the light's not out
But, baby, now you look like a Xerox of yourself.
The kids are free, now all they need is a gift from their mum and dad
15 The Reason Why (04:14)
Where am I? Sleeping at the console. ahhhh
I dreamt something, that I don't remember. ahhhh
Checking in, just like any other. ahhhh
Signing off, signing out forever.ahhhh
You're secondhand,
That's the reason why you're easy to drive. The reason why.
You understand,
That's the reason why you're easy to hide.
My head says yes but I was sedated. ahhhh
Signing on, checking in together. ahhhh
You're secondhand,
That's the reason why you're easy to drive.
You understand,
That's the reason why you're easy to hide.
You joined a band,
That's the reason why you're easy to try.
You understand,
That's the reason why you're easy to hide.
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