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Nel 2002 i Pet Shop Boys pubblicano questo ‘Release' un album dove i synthesisers si combinano bene con chitarra, elettrica e acustica, dando vita ad un'impresa suggestiva e decorativa, di sicuro interesse per gli amanti dell'elettronica, ma anche del pop, in quanto la struttura delle canzoni è lenta e in rima.
L'opener ‘Home and dry' presenta una melodia classica pop cantata dalla stupenda voce di Tennant, che anche da sola giustificherebbe il titolo al disco, essendo rasserenante e soave. Qui il sottofondo è rimesso a bassi ovattati e vari effetti armonici; linee vocali assonanti e in rima. Segue ‘I get along', di cui è presente anche un bellissimo video, che introduce piano e tastiere sulla melodia simile ad una ninnananna folk su sottofondo di valzer mentre i testi sono sensibili e spasimanti. La successiva ‘Birthday boy' ha un motivo lento prodotto da arpeggio e dal cembalo, una specie di melodramma che compatisce la sorte di un bambino trascurato. ‘London' è molto particolare per le strofe ripetute dalla synth-voice di Tennant; il sottofondo è ancora variegato e argentino con arpeggi e xilofono ecc.. Molto romantica è ‘E-mail', di cui sono sia bellissimi i testi che la melodia languida e intervallata. ‘The Samurai in autum' è strumentale, suggestiva come suggerito dal titolo.
Degna di nota è anche ‘Love is a catastrophe' che fedelmente al titolo è molto dimessa, meno di ‘Birthday boy' con i testi probabilmente più riusciti del disco, che riporto: - Who issued the instruction, for this mad act of destruction...an end to equilibrium, fate laughs: look what you've done to him. All my former dreams, tender, romantic schemes, revealed, as so naive, to think i could believe, in love, as the kindest law, not, as a declaration, of war, on my life and sanity. Now i know at last for me, love is a catastrophe.
La successiva traccia riprende le sonorità techno-house soffuse mentre la seguente ‘The night i fell in love' è più leggera, ed è davvero romantica nei testi, e sincera, visto che la relazione in questione è omosessuale; inoltre pare che ivi si celi un riferimento ad Eminen, presentando alcune strofe di ‘Stan'. Anche la canzone di chiusura è lenta e romantica.
Personalmente ho apprezzato parecchio il disco, soprattutto per il senso melodico presente in buona misura nei testi e nella musica, senza eccellere agli alti livelli, ma vicini, soprattutto musicalmente.
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02 I Get Along (05:49)
Feeling like I'm stuck in a hole
body and soul
while you're out of control
Now I know why you had to go
well I think we both know
why it had to be so
I've been trying not to cry
when I'm in the public eye
Stuck here with the shame
and taking
my share of the blame
while making
sudden plans that don't include you
I get along, get along
without you very well
I get along very well
Now I know you'd much rather be
with rock royalty
instead of someone like me
The big boys are back and we need them, you said
Think it was something you'd read
and it stuck in your head
Even though I don't suppose
that's as far as it goes
You've got quite an appetite
for being wronged and in the right
Well from now on it won't affect me
I get along, get along
without you very well
I get along very well
The morning after the nigh before
I'd been alerted
to your lies
I phoned you up
You calls were all diverted
Took a long time to track you down
even though you were defiant
It's not what you think it is, you said
and proceeded to deny it
So I lost my patience at last
and it happened so fast
you belong in the past
I've been trying not to cry
when I'm in the public eye
Stuck here with the shame
and taking
my share of the blame
while making
sudden plans that don't include you
I get along, get along
without you very well
I get along very well
04 London (03:46)
We came from the far north
summered in Crimea
deserted the armed forces
had to disappear
made it to the free West
on a chartered flight
so we could se what
we trained to fight
We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London
Tell it like it is
Looking for hard work
or credit card fraud
What do you expect from us?
We come from abroad
to get ourselves a new job
on a building-site
They work you so hard
but we trained to fight
We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
My father fought in Afghanistan
His widow's pension ain't worth a damn
My mother works and goes home to cry
I want to live before I die
We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London
Tell it like it is
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