Liquido. A leggerlo sembra la marca di un nuovo tipo di dentifricio; a sentirlo, con quel curioso accento sulla seconda "i", sembra uno scherzo della natura; ad ascoltarlo, il nome di una band tedesca di ispirazione punk-pop.
A dire il vero li avevamo già ascoltati abbondantemente i Liquido ben sette anni fa, quando con un tormentone di facile e ruffiano coinvolgimento come "Narcotic" avevano invaso il resto d'Europa in un breve lasso di tempo: il brano, dell'omonimo cd-single, avrebbe anticipato di lì a poco l'intero lavoro, "Liquido", dal curioso nome della band.
A distanza di tre anni dal loro ultimo lavoro, "Alarm! Alarm!", 2002, i Liquido tornano sulla scena. Lo fanno con "Float", lavoro in 14 tracce complessive con pezzo forte individuato nel single "Ordinary Life", già di una certa risonanza in buona parte dell'Europa. Sono di nuovo sulla breccia Schrödl e compagni, di nuovo felicemente noti al pubblico mondiale dopo due prodotti, "At The Rocks" e il citato "Alarm! Alarm!" che seppur discretamente graditi in Germania e fuori, non hanno raggiunto le vette dell' ottimo "Liquido" del '99.
Così, "Float" è, per una questione di ossequio, un album figlio di quest'ultimo, un parente stretto che per poco più di una quisquilia potremmo definire un "clone", ma che per deferenza e momentanea accortezza definiremo mera "perpetuazione di stile", per non saper nè leggere nè scrivere.
L'inizio dell' album è controverso. "Flip To Play" è un pezzo riconoscibile, forse troppo, con sonorità sospese tra il punk dei Lit e le divagazioni pop dei Travis, per questo accattivante ma allo stesso tempo già assimilato: coinvolgente, è pur certo. Dopo la ligia "Lay Your Head Down" ecco dirompere i Liquido nel solito inconfondibile macchiettismo: "Love Me Love Me" ha quasi le stesse cadenze di "Video Killed the Radio Star" dei Buggles, mentre "Mr. Officer" è il più irriducibile dei thrash di genere. Dopo la pur convincente "Bulletin", sulle stesse sonorità di pezzi di "Liquido" come "Clown" e "Wake Me Up", ecco affiorare in tutta la sua immediatezza il più epidittico dei brani dell'album, quell'"Ordinary Life" che ha preceduto con il singolo l'uscita del disco, l'apripista che ha riportato alla fama internazionale la band tedesca. A questo punto è inutile mentire a se stessi: clone o figlio spurio che sia, con "Ordinary Life" "Float" si candida a sottogenere di "Liquido"; stessa orecchiabilità, stesso sound, stesso timbro della voce di Schrodl rispetto all'hit "Narcotic": forse di presa minore, è pur vero, ma durante l'ascolto non si può fare a meno di accostare i due hit in un dovuto confronto. Dopo un' altra divagazione techno-thrash come "Fake Boys Fake Girls" ecco riaffiorare sensazioni punk-rock ancora in "No Sensitivity Healing", mentre è con la nona traccia, "The Final Strike", che si torna a sonorità più squisitamente electro-pop, non tanto distanti da "Narcotic" e "Swing It" dell'album del '99. Di richiamo ancora "High Roller" e "Jump Off" nelle intenzioni e nel sound non tanto distanti da certe prove dei Lit e dei Blink182, mentre "Valentine" termina con buona strumentazione pezzo e album.
Clone o perpetuazione di stile? Diverse letture per un lavoro comunque gradevole.
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04 Bulletin (03:03)
I'll point the finger at you
i pick you up now from the floor
reach down my throat
i see i feel and i breathe
everything's exactly how it seems
i want to walk through empty streets
i look around
but i can't feel you
i walk around
but i can't find your trace
ice feeling nature dead
don't stop right where you are
what does it take
how long must i stay
little secrets in your head
you call it love
you call it love
i just call it wrong.....
that's why i couldn't catch my breath
float like a dead man
everything is prepared
do you only think about yourself
mission missed
last level will come next
spinal cord remains intact
you call........
can't stop, won't stop, kisses on your belly
don't you, don't you, don't hang on the tele, nah
you call........
05 Mr. Officer (03:26)
Nobody needs to tell
no sign of taste, no fear, no smell
a sort of clash
you won't expect in slow-mo
no show, no flow, you know
you're acting like a slow-poke
got it obsolete
just break it to the beat
can't give the folks a lead
somebody call me, please
uphold obscenity
it's on your telly screen
and god will save the queen
just give me what I need
speed up till the automatic pilot will take control
bang your head!
they say it's crashing your career
without a clue I got in here
is this a place i come across some old bloke
no hope, no slope
got a standing like a bold oak
no credibility
for some specific need
this is how it's meant to be
so you're nice to me
hey mr. officer
i got an upper seat
please mr. officer
just give me what i need
speed up till the automatic pilot will take control
bang your head
06 Ordinary Life (02:57)
What has come of you
Fadin into gloom
Blackening everything
that we achieved
Thought I felt kill
An underrated skill
Catching but heavily
quite a disease
Givin some crap
It is to show you
where my head is at
It's but a shame
This is some
Ordinary life
Some ordinary life
Some ordinary life
Some ordinary...
Now i know the score
The storyline you store
Has but an end
that you will not release
Requiring a plan
Some pattern for the clan
And nothing is quite
what it seems
Didn't i swear
It such a beautiful dress
that you wear
It's but a game
This is some
Ordinary life
Some ordinary life
Some ordinary life
Some ordinary life
Some ordinary
10 High Roller (03:29)
You've got to pay taxes boy
even though you thought you wouldn't have to pay
i'm too much of a cynic, boy
how hard is that, keeping the faith
you're like a backstage boy
running around, disturbing the peace
this is not texas, boy
get out of your box, it drives you insane
high roller, don't let me down
dancing on a battlefield, keep me spinning round and round
high roller, split myself into you
oh what a beautiful ride
call on your brothers, boy
don't wait until the end, you need somebody's help
it's your existence, boy
how hard is that, keeping the faith
break it down like that, what you wanna say?
you need a place called home
i guess your head is getting bigger
you need a place called home
what's next?
you're close to the edge right now
you need a place called home
i guess your head is getting bigger
you need a place called home
stand up!
oh what a beautiful ride
11 Drag Me Down (03:17)
You won't call me
what though the way is long?
and you haven't got a dime for the operator
it crossed my mind
then it struck me to the bone
as you stood there with a smile like a bottom shaker
uh uh
hear my callings
i've really let myself in for something there
the bunch of the trouble maker
uh uh
can you hear me?
uh uh
they only stand to gain
it's a wicked game
the game of the operator
i want it done and I don't mind
i can't believe there is a way
hey you drag me down (hey i'm coming up)
and you knock me out (hey i'm coming up)
you're dragging me down (hey i'm coming up)
and you take me out
drag me down
what has come?
what have you done to me?
it this the way to speak to somebody
you change it here, you taint it there
if somebody's there I'm ready for the battle
although few things just getting good
don't keep me waiting when I'm in the mood
hey you drag me down (hey i'm coming up)
and you knock me out (hey i'm coming up)
you're dragging me down (hey i'm coming up)
and you take me out
drag me down
13 Jump Off (04:05)
the city explodes tonight, erasing feelings that i used to feel ||
throw away the key, all locked up inside || the bridges will burn tonight, i wanna know what
it´s like || to remember all the days we´ve never had || i´m burning cold, i´m freezing out,
i´m not the same that i used to be || you and i, bad memories and good times, the jump
up to the sky || together we get high || we have waited too long, i wasn´t trying to impress
myself || all the good things in my life getting away from me || i´m burning cold, i´m freezing
out, i´m not the same that i used to be || don´t turn your back on me, things i couldn´t
see || spread your wings and fly over to me, oh my god || it´s everytime the same, feelings
without names || cross your heart and come over to me, oh my god || the jump off ||
14 Valentine (04:07)
I've been here for a while
exhilarated by that pretty smile
i like your ways
today a lovely day remains
i wanna feel you by coincidence
that memory is what i wanna take
i'm weeping in that stain
just to here you
say my little valentine
and say if you really like me
your beauty hits the needle
ashes left and buried deep inside
don't lie like that
how can you f***** turn me on
and there's a place that i will find someday
and bring me back to my waves again
i'm creeping in that stain
just to here you
say my little valentine
and stay if you really like me
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