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Gli Oceansize hanno sbagliato tutto. O meglio, han sbagliato epoca. Dieci anni possono considerarsi "epoca"? Nell'assimilazione della musica decisamente sì. Dieci anni fa c'era la tua rivista prediletta, la tua bibbia mensile, il nuovo mondo, o così credevi. Dieci anni fa ti presentavi nel negozietto di fiducia con la bava alla bocca e una lista di nomi lunga così. Dieci anni fa arrivavi a casa, spacchettavi il cd e booklet alla mano, cuffie enormi in testa, pigiavi sul play e tutto si spegneva. . . e si accendeva al tempo stesso. Dieci anni fa potevi VIVERE una band come gli Oceansize, assaporare ogni loro fraseggio, carpire ogni minima variazione, dilatandoti nel loro mondo. . . potevi ASCOLTARLI insomma.
Oggi gli Oceansize rischiano di passare inosservanti, scartati a priori per i loro sette minuti di media, o non capiti fino in fondo a causa della loro scarsa immediatezza. Ma il rischio è il nostro, l'ingordigia del "di tutto di più, subito" grazie al P2P potrebbe farci sfuggire una delle band più interessanti del momento. Dopo il (capo)lavoro "Effloresce" del 2003 e l'altrettanto superbo EP "Music For Nurses", i cinque di Manchester sfornano un album ostico nonostante linee melodiche più marcate rispetto al passato. Mentre scrivo, il loro sound cresce, espandendosi poco alla volta, fino a riempire la stanza. Intrappolato, diventa claustrofibico, implodendo nello spazio tempo, tentando di portarmi con sè in un'altra dimensione, la loro, l'Oceansize. In un certo qualsenso protrebbero ricordare gli Amplifier, non a caso loro concittadini: stessa lunga gavetta, stesso debutto col botto, simili riferimenti di base. Anche se gli Oceansize, ltre all'impatto decisamente minore, rimarcano maggiormente le influenze inglesi, quelle di Radiohead ("Ornament The Last Wrongs", elettronica onirica), Muse ("A Homage To A Shame", devastante, la più noize di sempre) e i primi Porcupine Tree ("You Can't Keep A Bad Man Down"). Ma ci troverete anche un pizzico di Soundgarden ("The Charme Offensive", se solo Cornell si decidesse a cantare un'ottava più bassa questi sarebbero i risultati) e parecchie atmosfere Dredgiane ("Music For A Nurse", stupenda). Ma sono tutti riferimenti che appaiono come lampi nell'evolversi dei pezzi, puntini luminosi che permettono di tracciare linee marcate, evidenziando una personalità molto forte sin dal debutto, perchè in fondo gli Oceansize non scimmiottano nessuno pur abbracciando una vasta gamma di sonorità.
Spero di avervi fatto venire appetito ma mi raccomando, non da McDonald's. Stavolta apparecchiate come si deve, versatevi del buon rosso e gustatevi con calma il filetto. . . possibilmente al sangue.
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02 The Charm Offensive (07:19)
Senses oh how could you fail us now
Check your heart still makes a hissing sound
It's just another name for sorcery
We still believe in what we never see
Our perception is but a camera trick
Authority a uniform
Another name for a second chance
You offer more
The sophomore.
Gold mouth at full voice refuse this should be our choice
We take this lying down, take this lying
And it burns, it burns us all out
As it blows
Everyone into position.
We love to lie and pretend that it's ok
We love to save all these words til another day
So don't think on your feet, cos you sink from your feet up.
Are you flirting with me?
Charm offensive, perma-pensive
Dream it all away
Some may kill you as you continue
To lie for us I pray.
But I'm rooting for you, I'm rooting for everyone.
They've sold us out again and thrown us in the fire
They say we're all the same
Well, yeah, but we're not liars.
03 Heaven Alive (06:21)
I patiently wait for my turn
While you fill the gaps with a bold empathic love.
Hey... is it coming over you?
Hey there... we should come together, wait on something new.
And christ alive! Am I dilating
My inhibitions soon dissipating
Can we afford to stay this way forever and forever.. amen.
This release inside of me
Is like my heaven calling
Endless possibilities
Are my defences falling down.
And all the while the strobing flicker
Of fireworks I'm peaking quicker
Than I ever have or ever will again.
Cut to pieces
Your friend in jesus
Pledge allegiance
And all's forgiven.
05 Meredith (05:26)
Gravity, gravity, why oh why you try to fail me
Never you mind, never you mind, never you mind it's entertaining
Is for a while, just for a while, your crocodile smile now is fading
Maybe I lied, maybe I lied, maybe I lied but it's entertaining.
Oh how I'd cut you to the bone.
Oh how I'd cut you to the bone.
This creeping and seething
I pour it on to make you grow
While I'm waiting for the lights to change.
Your love that is weakening
A last embrace before you go
Are you waiting for the lights to change.
Why try to fight, why try to fight, holding on tight but your hands are shaking
I'm pulling you down, pulling you down, from this dream you are never waking
What cannot see, what cannot see, what cannot see cannot try to lead me
I know my own mind, know my own mind, know my own mind and I'm not crazy.
06 Music for a Nurse (08:16)
And a piece of the pictures bitten right out of the middle
I'm alone and thinner I feel
Is this a prayer?
Anaesthetise me just til you return
I feel the loss like a squandered opportunity to whisper
You're all I ever needed.
Shapes fall into place
For once in your life you make
A clean breakaway.
And did you know that everything you touch is blessed and all the richer
For your love a better being
And if I display just a fraction of the soul you showed in this world
Then I know I'll see you again
Love so much to give
And too few to share it with
Wastes you away.
The dream it comes again and again
You're here
It's you
I pull you close and
Hold you tight
Into the sky you go
You go
And I can't change it
I can't change it.
07 New Pin (05:11)
In goodness wake I'll always say I do,
That it's all for you
And tricks I'd turn would always shine right through,
But it's all for you.
Like a stream overflowing
Unpredictable
A new confidence like a new king.
Like a breeze levitating
To raise a sunken soul
And to the surface shines like a new pin.
What junkie says is not what junkie do,
But it's all for you
And the tricks he turns will always shine right through,
But it's all for you.
Like a dream synchronising
With the one I missed the most
A concentrated love from a new queen.
Like a wave stabilising
I walk a tighter rope
And my new victim shines like a new pin.
I can feel lies within the
Gospels that I'm sold
The tactless sentiments are a new pain.
But it's all for you.
08 No Tomorrow (07:10)
Goes, it comes and goes
Although you try to hide it always shows
And I try never to pretend I know
You flick that safety catch and off we...
Go! go! shoot him down, shoot him down
(Reap?) and sow the only thing you've left to show
In faith, against your faith
That carves a look of love in to your face
As if you look proud of this disgrace
Accelerate and charging through the days
You try not to listen anyway, not this day
Regardless of the words i had to say
Reputation's not alibi
Go! go! shoot him down, shoot him down
(Reap?) and sow the only thing you've left to show
(my time is your time there wont be a later)
What do you see when you close your eyes
Like royalty or magic numbers or
Popular opinion just to prove that you are right
A sugar spoon feed in with draw
And still needing for more
I ask you why you try
The lights that guide you will burn and blind you
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
What cannot speak cannot lie I beg for more patience
But you're still wasting, I should not (make?) apologies
Find a face, put it on
Pretend there's no tomorrow
Find a face, put it on
Pretend there's no tomorrow
09 Mine Host (04:10)
Numb numb and fearful friend
Can you hear me crying calling out your name
It's easy to apportion bucketloads of blame
When you're distant
When you're invisible of blame cos you're here
Blame cos you're here
Would've never thought that I'd be your defendant
I would be a criminal investigation
Needing to believe that faith could make a difference
Need to forget my name when you're here
I hope this pays you off
11 Ornament/The Last Wrongs (09:23)
Signs the signs invisible
Trace the trail and follow you wherever you will lead me
To the heart of me and your spilling grief
To answer to a God who never answers you
Feathernest invest and gain
Shiny brass is milk and grain
And yours is to just sustain and chip away with haste
Treasure time and savor taste
And all the while you quietly crave and crave
The day is done
Time you've made has come and gone
Stay asleep now
Everyone into position
Everyone into their place
Grow to grow at snail's pace
Like carnivores at grace
Feed to feed and building face
Pay to play and find a place
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