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Terzo album della multietnica e cosmopolita band di Liverpool, ‘Witching Hour’ raccoglie in sé il fascino esotico del temperamento peculiare di ciascuno dei suoi quattro componenti (dal Giappone alla Bulgaria, per approdare in Inghilterra).
Condito di sapori eterogenei tra spinte pop, dance, electro e goth, il disco ricorda indubbiamente le migliori interpretazioni di Kate Bush e degli Stereolab ma, a differenza delle due opere precedenti, ‘604’ e ‘Light And Magic’, quest’ultima è straordinariamente dotata di una sorprendente carica innovativa.
Si passa così dalle deflagrazioni psichedeliche di ‘High Rise’ alle sonorità dance di ‘Destroy Everything You Touch’ (nello splendido connubio tra la notevole voce di Helena Marnie e sintetizzatore), dai ritmi electro di ‘Soft Power’ (dal cui testo, farcito di riferimenti magici, è tratto il nome dell’album) ai gusti industrial della canzone dal testo bulgaro ‘Fighting In Built Up Areas’: il tutto immerso in una pervicace atmosfera onirica curiosa ed emozionante.
Malgrado il mescolamento di generi tanto differenti possa effettivamente infastidire i puristi, i Ladytron, con questa raccolta, affermano la propria originalità ed abilità, portando a compimento un album che, seppure indubbiamente meno “catchy” dei precedenti, rappresenta un frutto decisamente più maturo: un edificio ammirevole non solo per i delicati lavori di cesellatura e decorazione, ma anche e soprattutto per la solidità delle proprie fondamenta.
Probabilmente in futuro troveranno ancora il modo di stupirci, ma è fuori discussione che la strada l’hanno già lastricata.
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01 High Rise (04:54)
Black sun rising
New day dawning
Amplifying and destroying
We`re on the same high you and I
Open on the same page, no sunrise
Tender talons
chase new horizons
masquerading
Black sun rising
We`re on the same high you and I
Open on the same page, no sunrise
Silent movers
Black medusa
perfect timing
hallow morning
We`re on the same high you and I
Open on the same page, no sunrise
Sickness fading
Darkness falling
New day dawning
Black sun rising
We`re on the same high you and i
Open on the same page, no sunrise
We`re on the same high you and i
Open on the same page, no sunrise
We`re on the same high you and i
Open on the same page, no sunrise
02 Destroy Everything You Touch (04:36)
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Anything that may desert you
So it cannot hurt you
You only have to look behind you
At who's undermined you
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun
What you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Anything that may delay you
Might just save you
You only have to look behind you
At who's underlined you
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun
What you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way
Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun
What you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way
Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun
What you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
03 International Dateline (04:17)
Woke up in the evening
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Grown tired of the show coast
And the ones that we toast
There are already zeroes
Around here
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's end it here
Woke up in the evening
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
04 Soft Power (05:19)
Broken glass, is luxury
Friendly fires, or alchemy
Daylight is the enemy
Witching hour, soft power
We're not sleeping at the wheel
The wheel is turning the machine,
that kills for us
Close your eyes, so your not seeing
and valentines daydream
We're not sleeping at the wheel
The wheel is turning the machine,
that kills for us
The hourglass of the forests
Setting fire to the tourists
We're not sleeping at the wheel
The wheel is turning the machine,
that kills for us
Broken glass, is luxury
Friendly fires, or alchemy
Daylight is the enemy
Witching hour, soft power
06 amTV (03:26)
films will come and films will go
that kiss on your neck wont show
posing at the same place everytime
we'd be steping this weekend in the sunshine
watching tv at 4am, thats not when she needs a friend
staring at the bathroom floor
please dont say you've got to go
posing at the same place to put things right
we'd be realizing we'd be meeting in the morning light
you've done it again, you've done it before
that kiss on your neck wont show
watching tv at 4am, thats not when she needs a friend
staring at the bathroom floor
please dont say you've got to go
watching tv at 4am, thats not when she needs a friend
loose change from your pocket on the floor
please dont say you've got to go
cheap thrills that this time like last
cheap thrills that you'll dream about
you've done it again, you've done it before
that kiss on your neck wont show
watching tv at 4am, thats not when she needs a friend
staring at the bathroom floor
please dont say you've got to go
watching tv at 4am, thats not when she needs a friend
loose change from your pocket on the floor
please dont say you've got to go
(*LEVEL WON!)
07 Sugar (02:50)
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
We got a signal to leave you alone
We'll try to leave you
We'll try to find you
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
We got a signal to leave you alone
We'll try to leave you
We'll try to find you
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
We got a signal to leave you alone
We'll try to leave you
We'll try to find you
If i give you sugar, will you give me
Something elusive and temporary
08 Fighting in Built Up Areas (03:59)
Zavarshva
Proletta ne chakam
Mostet e zatvoren
Pushyek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Slantseto iznika, nishto ne zapalva
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Relsite se slivat
Patyat pak izchezva
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
Sedna da vecheryash, dumi ne razmenyash
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Symna pak blesteshe...ne razmenyash
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Prasti v dzhoba kriesh, dumi ne razmenyash
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Syanka v slansche tarsish
Syankata namirash
Pushek ne vidya, a oganyat goreshe
Zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva, zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
Zashtoto zashto
Zashtoto zashto...zavarshva
09 The Last One Standing (03:11)
Merging away
like we did yesterday
wrong direction
The traffic we'll know
the traffic is slow and thoughtless
The wheel that is still
on the concrete and green
away home
And it is alone
a division unknown
a split decision
Climbing the floors
and I'm not running
Through revolving doors
and you're not driving
The barrier stands
between your hands and me
Sorry
You said I made
you said you said I made
a bad decision
Said I made a mistake
Fatal without the recognition
But how would we know
know of that consequence
had I forseen
Our California hates
had I not been
Closing the doors
and I am running
Past video stores
and you are driving
A barrier stands
between your hands and me
Sorry
You have got to be the last one standing
11 Beauty*2 (04:23)
sent you out to play last night
the alarms went off at 3
funny how im not laughing now
loneliness the guarantee.
sent you out to play last night
the alarms went off at 3
funny how im not laughing now
he's not coming home to me.
Sent you out to play last night
the alarms went off at 3
funny how im not laughing now
hes not coming home to me.
try to get out of the lease
to move out of love
if only there was no consequence
watch it all turn to dust
hey can i go with you
my beauty number2
hey can i go with
when the rendez vous over
its over
[repeat]
hey can i go with
when the rendez vous over
(his beauty number 2)
its over
its not over
no its not over
12 Whitelightgenerator (03:59)
Live like our own video
What luck to have another turn
High in victorian England
Away from the smoke and the fire
The mirror you'll see, has a memory, special feature
It's falling on you from above
The walker is under the cloud
Out sound like a two minute warning
Falling on you from above
The mirror you'll see, has a memory, special feature
The picture you'll see, infatuates me
The mirror you'll see, has a memory
Sisters when hit by the lightning
Wouldn't we talk under these
The mirror you'll see, has a memory, special feature
The picture you'll see, infatuates me
The mirror you'll see, has a memory, special feature
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