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Finalmente tornano i Mudvayne con "Lost And Found", terzo lavoro della band dell'Illinois.
Il sottoscritto attendeva con molto interesse questo album, perchè ritiene stupendi, nel loro genere, i loro due dischi precedenti, "LD50" e "The End Of All Things To Come".
Prima dell'uscita di questo ciddì, la mia preoccupazione maggiore era che "Lost And Found" fosse ciò che è stato l'anno scorso "Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)" per gli Slipknot, un album a mio parere deludente a causa di una improvvisa e inaspettata svolta melodica che ha immorbidito il duro sound dei 9 dell'Iowa.
Già dalla copertina si può capire che forse è cambiato qualcosa: non più cover strane che rimandano ad ambienti alieni, ma solo un bambino inerme davanti ad un inquietante tornado. Non sarà mica che quel tornado sia una metafora per descrivere il sound di quest'album? Beh, a confermare questa teoria c'è "Determined" che da inizio alle danze: è il classico brano apri-pista dei Mudvayne, che ricalca lo stile di "Dig"; una potente mazzata per dimostrare che si comincia già a fare sul serio. Poi ci si imbatte in "Pushing Through", altra botta di adrenalina, meno diretta della precedente ma ugualmente d'impatto (da brividi il finale!).
"Happy?" è un pezzo che conoscievo già, dato che si poteva sentire su internet da circa un mese: devo ammettere che quando l'ho ascoltata per la prima volta non mi sembrava un gran che, ma sentita dentro l'album mi da tutt'altra impressione: mi piace moltissimo, grazie soprattutto a quell'andatura iniziale malinconica che pian piano cresce. Molto bella, una delle mie preferite. Bella anche "IMN", con una grande prestazione del singer Chad. "Fall Into Sleep" è il secondo pezzo melodico dopo "Happy?", testo molto triste ("I have a dream, but nobody cares"...) con un chorus orecchiabile. "Rain. Sun. Gone." chiude la prima metà del disco: canzone carina, si fa notare per la chitarra filo-Deftones.
E dopo una grande prima metà (grandioso il tris di canzoni iniziale), passiamo alla seconda parte di questo album. "Choices" con i suoi 8 minuti è la canzone più lunga dell'album, e questo mi ha fatto sperare che i nostri avessero voluto tornare al passato, alle canzoni lunghe e nello stesso tempo stupende che componevano il bellissimo "LD50"... Beh che dire, forse mi ci vorrà un pò di tempo per apprezzare questa canzone, comunque per ora mi sembra un pezzo molto buono, con un chorus devoto alla melodia. "Forget To Remember" (che riprende lo stile agrodolce di "The End Of All Things To Come") e "Tv Radio" sono più o meno sulla stessa linea, comunque molto belle anch'esse, e scorrono via senza problemi (da notare la voce leggermente "computerizzata" di Chad nel ritornello di "Tv Radio").
Con "Just" i nostri tornano a pestare come sanno fare. Tre minuti di puri Mudvayne. "All That You Are" è uno degli episodi più malinconici di tutto l'album (infatti contende con "Happy?" e "Fall Into Sleep" il titolo di "erede" della bellissima "World So Cold"), grazie ad un'andatura lenta e ad un'atmosfera triste che proseguiranno per tutta la durata del pezzo; e poi ci troviamo alla fine, con una "Pulling The String" abbastanza tirata, sicuramente un pò più di "Key To Nothing", la song di chiusura del precedente disco.
Nonostante all'inizio ero rimasto parzialmente deluso, secondo me "Lost And Found" è l'album della definitiva conferma per questo gruppo, grazie soprattutto ad un uso più equilibrato dell'alternanza di parti melodiche e rabbia rispetto al passato (una cosa che già si iniziava a vedere nel precedente album) che ha reso il loro sound più personale e meno fossilizzato su clichè inutili. Se il terzo album è la prova decisiva per un gruppo, credo che i quattro dell'Illinois abbiano passato questa ipotetica prova, in barba a quei critici che gli davano per falliti già dal primo album. Ottima prestazione, come al solito, di Chad Gray e di Ryan Martinie, e anche di Matt McDonough, ma mi ha colpito in particolar modo il fatto che il suono della chitarra di Greg Tribbett è decisamente cambiato rispetto a "The End Of All Things To Come", un fatto che può essere trascurabile, ma che merita di essere menzionato.
Comunque una cosa è certa, i Mudvayne rimangono uno dei pochi gruppi nu-metal a non aver ancora perso credibilità (a differenza di molti gruppi nu, che negli ultimi tre anni hanno pubblicato prodotti a dir poco deludenti); uno dei gruppi più conosciuti e apprezzati nell'ambiente nu ma comunque sempre a debita distanza dalle luci del mainstream (cosa non da poco).
Ritornando al giudizio su "Lost And Found"... Per me è un grande bell'album, in piena sintonia con i loro due lavori passati (voglio far notare che questo disco ce l'ho solo da due settimane circa, ma l'ho già abbondantemente consumato!)... Consigliatissimo per chi aveva già apprezzato i precedenti lavori della band.
Chi temeva, come me, un "Vol.3" in versione Mudvayne, può stare tranquillo e godersi finalmente "Lost And Found".
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01 Determined (02:39)
Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
You better believe it, confidence
Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
Spit out all reason
Yeah
I'm tired of holding all the weight
The weight of the fucking world
All I want is to just get right here right now
We struggle and fight just to get in the grave
That's overflowing
Clocks ticking on my 15 minutes of fame
Come on now, 1 2 3 go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
You better believe it, confidence
Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
Spit out all reason
Yeah
I'm flushing the trust of everyone
Stabbing in the back and thinking they can break me
Set my sight can't die till I'm done
Mind endurance
Never wanted anymore than what I deserve
Better bring it I'm taking it all
Fuck an inch 'cause I'm bringing a mile
It's on now 123 go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
You better believe it, confidence
Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
Spit out all reason
Yeah
This fire, is growing, is burning deep inside of me
Focused, driven, certain, the way it's got to be
Fire, growing, burning
Deep inside of me, focused, driven, certain, the way it's got to be
Crooked, no trust, liar, conmen, drunk with, power, mentor
Taught me everything that I know
So Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
1 2 3 Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
You better believe it, confidence
Go
So fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
Spit out all reason
Yeah
Go
I'm fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
You better believe it, confidence
Go
I'm fucking determined
Yeah, yeah go
Spit out all reason
Yeah.
02 Pushing Through (03:28)
Rip the womb
Feeling so sorry
Selfish and sore
WISH I WASN'T BORN
Piece by piece I can carry it all
Strength to be driven
So unforgiving anything is possible
Like leaving you all
I'm turning my back on this killing so small
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Eye for an eye I'm pushing through this
My law
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Tooth for a tooth I'm pushing through this
Through you
Salt the wound
Cut through a conscience I've failed to explore
The calm before the storm
Speak your peace and prepare for the fall
Words have been chosen
Tainting the gift
Lying truth's so incredible
So fuck you all
I'm turning my back on this killing so small
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Eye for an eye I'm pushing through this
My law
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Tooth for a tooth I'm pushing through this
Through you
Spread the word
The killing is over
Spread the word
The killing is over
Severed, more than I am, more than I ever was,
Blindside, threatened, my worth, sequestered
Deliverance
You stoned a part of me
You've taken a part of me
Try
You wanted to be
Wanted to have a life
You wanted to fight
Wanted the right...Your lies
Spoken to me without a conscious
No right
Why
Breaking a mold
Breaking the trust
A child
Innocent lost
Ultimate cost
The loss
Life so undone
Deserted the seed
You've buried the bottle
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Eye for an eye I'm pushing through this
My law
Step by step I'm pushing through this
(All of you get away from me)
Tooth for a tooth I'm pushing through this
Through you
Step by step I'm pushing through
Eye for an eye I'm pushing through
Tooth for a tooth I'm pushing through
Pushing through
Pushing through
Pushing through
Pushing through
Pushing
Pushing
Pushing
Pushing through
03 Happy? (03:37)
In this hole
That is me
The dead are rolling over
In this hole
Thickening
Dirt shoveled over shoulders
I feel it in me
So overwhelmed
All this pressured center rising
My life overturned
What dare the despair
All these scars keep ripping open
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
In this hole
That is me
A life that's growing feeble
In this hole
So limiting
The sun has set; all darkens
Buried underneath
Hands slip off the wheel
Internal path-way to contention
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
Are you
HAPPY
Are you
HAPPY
Are you feeling happy?
In this hole
That is me
Left with a heart exhausted
What's my release??
What sets me free?
Do you pull me up just to push me down again?
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?
Peel me from the skin
(Peel me from the skin)
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
(Tear me from the bone)
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you fucking happy?
Now that I'm lost, left with nothing
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you fucking happy?
Now that I'm lost, left with nothing?
04 IMN (05:51)
suicide
don't give a fuck about this
my life or any other
just go and let me hang
impossible to forgive, forget it murderer
I'm in control
living a lie
making it but i don't cost for this
lovesick
bullshit
bring it
decisions making themselves
i don't need your thorns in my side
so i die
no one
no one could ever understand
my life's exhausted
no one
no one could ever understand
this life IMN
determined
to bring you all down with me
break you beat down no more fucking empathy
from me, for you
fed up I've had enough
duality my word
existence
is it gonna get me there safe?
lay down
sell out
so wrong
drag the blade and go away
I stand cold, cruel, and lost
take me i'm ready
no one
no one could ever understand
my life's exhausted
no one
no one could ever understand
pressure constricting
so hard
like a stone
fight hard
break bones break
no one
no one could ever understand
this life IMN
your pressure
my time
eroding
my life
fight for your honesty
fight for integrity
all work and no play
all work and no play
all work and no play makes me
all work and no play
all work and no play makes me
sick!
wanna eat a bullet
carve myself
beat my face!
catatonic
dig my brain
no pain, suffocate!
stomach aches
don't give a fuck
im out, I'm done
fuck this shit
you've dug the hole
I'm lying in
no one could ever understand
no one could ever understand
fight for your honesty
fight for integrity
no one
no one could ever understand
my life's exhausted
no one
no one could ever understand
pressure constricting
so hard
like a stone
fight hard
break bones break
no one
no one could ever understand
this life IMN
my world
my rules
my noose
my world
my rules
fuck you
my world
my rules
my noose
my world
my rules
fuck you
06 Rain. Sun. Gone. (04:36)
So far
Left with nothing
Hanging by a memory
No stars
To give me one wish
So lost in the dark
Feels like I'm caving in from the outside
All right
All wrong
See you again
So long
Nothing matters anymore at all
Nothing matters anymore
Life's not meant to be disposable
Lost. Found. Dead.
Ready and willing
Can't stop the bleeding
Life's not meant to be expendable
Rain. Sun. Gone.
Left robbed unwilling
Can't fight the feeling
So low
Overwhelming
Clinging to a tragedy
So clear
Hear weeping voices
Tears fall in the dark
Feels like I'm carving in from the outside
So lost. So gone. So wrong.
Life's not meant to be disposable
Lost. Found. Dead.
Ready and willing
Can't stop the bleeding
Life's not meant to be expendable
Rain. Sun. Gone.
Left robbed unwilling
Can't fight the feeling
It's never ending
Never goes away
But you did
It's never ending
Never goes away
But you did...
Why
The body's just a vehicle to hold
Until we find another space
Find another place
To start this over
The enemy
The action I can't condone
Do you suffer with me
Can I give you my loss
To feel
To hold close
Can I give you my pain
To feel
To be eaten alive by
Conscience
Suffer
Fucking suffer
Suffer like me
Life's not meant to be disposable
Lost. Found. Dead.
Ready and willing
Can't stop the bleeding
Life's not meant to be expendable
Rain. Sun. Gone.
Left robbed unwilling
Can't fight the feeling
07 Choices (08:05)
Leaders are guilty of nothing
They're perfectly insane
But if they'd point the finger at themselves
Who would be left to blame
Lead into grace
Lead to corruption
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
A truth or lie has to be spoken
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
King or con has to be chosen
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
Way of life complete or broken... broken
Choices
No more... choices
No more... choices
No more... choices
Leaders are guilty of nothing
They're perfectly insane
But if they'd point the finger at themselves
Who would be left to blame
Follow truth or stutter through a lie
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
Will to push or give up and fall behind
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
Live with peace or nurture your tragic life
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo
Bite the bullet or swallow it whole
Leaders are guilty of nothing
They're perfectly insane
But if they'd point the finger at themselves
Who would be left to blame
Point the finger at yourself
There's no choice
Anymore anyway...
We don't have a choice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a voice
Anymore Anyway
There's no choice in freedom
There's no voice in freedom
We don't have a choice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a voice
Anymore anyway
There's no choice in freedom
There's no voice in freedom
Leaders are guilty of nothing
They're perfectly insane
But if they'd point the finger at themselves
Who would be left to blame
They're lost system of destruction
Flush all hope down the drain
But if they'd point the finger at themselves
Who is left to blame
Who is left to blame
We don't have a choice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a voice
Anymore anyway
There's no choice in freedom
There's no voice in freedom
We don't have a choice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a voice
Anymore anyway
There's no choice in freedom
There's no voice in freedom
We don't have a choice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a voice
Anymore anyway
We don't have a reason
Anymore anyway
We don't have control
Anymore anyway
We don't have opinions
Anymore anyway
There's no choice in freedom
There's no voice in freedom
Freedom, buy in
Freedom, sell out
Freedom, betray
Freedom, lay down
Freedom, corrupt
Freedom, opinion
Freedom, give up
Freedom, give in
08 Forget to Remember (03:35)
What have I done?
Where have I come from?
When I burnt the backs with the sun through a glass did I seal the loss that's become me?
Feeling undone
What have I become?
When I turned my back on you I turned my back on myself and became this machine
Thoughtlessness
Selfishness
Hopelessness
Arrogant
I feel it on the inside
Twisting and contorting
Memory has shaped me once again
Still feel you on the inside
Biting through and stinging
Will I ever forget to remember?
Shadows in the sun
Filter through us
Still wrestle the demons that arrested me as a child
Confession rejected
We grow up
To give up
People step on the cracks for wounds owed paid back
Through the words of surrender
Emptiness
Loneliness
Listlessness
Worthless
I feel it on the inside
Twisting and contorting
Memory has shaped me once again
Still feel you on the inside
Biting through and stinging
Will I ever forget to remember?
O Can you save me?
From myself
From these memories
O Can you save me?
From myself
From these memories
Surrender
To the shadows
Haunting inside
Bleed through you
Surrender to the secrets inside
Lies within you
I feel it on the inside
Twisting and contorting
Memory has shaped me once again
Still feel you on the inside
Biting through and stinging
Will I ever forget to remember?
Can't feel you on the inside
Set down the bag and left it
Lost memory has left me
One again
Open up the inside
Admission for the cleansing
Now that I've forgotten to remember
Surrender
To the shadows
Haunting inside
Bleed through you
09 TV Radio (03:26)
You incomplete me
You tune me into
Whitewash
Spoon fed
Brain dead
Sloth
I'd watch the paint dry before giving in
Black out
Stupor
Inferior
Insignifigant
False stars above keep us sedated
Satellite
Astronaut
Spaceship
The Government
I'm overdosing on reality
Don't stop the feed
No don't touch the feed
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I don't wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
Eliminate me you turn me into
Lifeless
Cliche'
Thoughtless
Unbelievable
So bored with my life
Entertained me with normal
Usual
Average
It's so typical
Artists traded in for the talentless
Spoiled kid
Wife swap
Tycoon
The has-beens
So entertaining it makes me sick
Don't stop the feed
Don't
No don't touch the feed
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I'm so uninterested
So unamused
Dissapointed in yourself
To be so consumed
I'm so uninterested
So unamused
Dissapointed in yourself
To be so consumed
Buy nothing
Nothing
Buy nothing
Nothing
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
I don't wanna wanna be
Wanna wanna be
I don't want to be here
Wanna wanna be here so let's go
Turn off the radio
Turn off the TV
12 Pulling the String (05:07)
Running I'm alway running from myself
No one to help me
No one knows
Not that anyone who knew would care
Dangling
Hanging from your tree
Am I an ornament of longing
A seed trapped inside the shell that is me
Nobody can save me
From this
From myself
Hurricane of head space
Spinning circle
Stacking up the walls that hide you from yourself
Crumbling pieces of me
An offering to you
Falling gifts from me to you
Left nothing for myself
You had my cake and ate it too
And left nothing for me
Fist
For breaking
These eyes
For seeing
Right through
Heart
For you to trample
Confidence lost
Nothing to lose
Nothing to gain
From this loss
This right of passage denied
Holding the headstone
Tied to no one
Loosen the knot
Pulling the string
Losing
Feels like I'm losing all my worth
No one to notice
No one would care
If they took the time to stop and stare
Nobody has the time for me
For myself
Blistering pieces of me
I'm giving them to you
These sweet whispers are from me to you
Want nothing for myself
You hold my world inside your hands
And leave nothing for me
Fist
For breaking
These eyes
For seeing
Right through
Heart
For you to trample
Confidence lost
Nothing to lose
Nothing to gain
From this loss
This right of passage denied
Holding the headstone
Tied to no one
Loosen the knot
Pulling the string
So sorry
For whatever it was I've done
So I'm deserting
Sincerely
Me
Got to just be
You've got to just know
I've got to leave
It's time for me to go
So here's the note
I've left the key
I hope that when you find this
I've left you with a happy ending...
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Fist
For breaking
These eyes
For seeing
Right through
Heart
For you to trample
Confidence lost
Nothing to lose
Nothing to gain
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Altre recensioni
Di Perez
"Ora il gruppo ha definitivamente Perso somiglianze e paragoni ed ha Trovato una formula perfetta di violenza e melodia definitivamente personale.",
"Questo non è un carnevale, questa è musica che gronda sangue e sudore, passione e rabbia: avete voglia di scherzare, mi dispiace, tutti a casa!!!"
Di CUNTGRINDER
Lost And Found è uno dei più bei album mai realizzati in musica.
Quando ho sentito Happy! la prima volta mi è uscita una lacrima, perché è una cosa indescrivibile.
