12 (ottobre 1995). Si esaurisce la carriera artistica di una delle formazioni più ispirate del variegato bailamme che ruota attorno all'idea di hardcore. In soli due dischi i Quicksand hanno creato un sound compatto, straordinariamente caratterizzato, un'epifania.
L'esordio si chiama Slip, è il 1993.
Attori dell'illuminata scena newyorkese, i magnifici quattro convogliano nella band brillanti esperienze, basti citare la militanza del singer Walter Schreifels nei Gorilla Biscuits, o dell'immenso Tom Capone alla chitarra dei Bold. Il risultato è impressionante, le 13 tracce di Slip regalano ai trafficanti di hardcore un evento irripetibile.
Proprio questa è la sensazione del primo e del millesimo ascolto: l'unicità. Se è vero che i richiami a Helmet e Fugazi sono assai intellegibili, ti accorgi presto che i nostri picchiano ben più dei secondi, cesellando il concetto dell'EMOtional-hardCORE più spinto, costringendo chi ascolta a frequenti esclamazioni di incredulità. Quanto ai padri Helmet, i Quicksand ne riprendono la nobilissima pratica del riff sincopato, con l'opzione che qui la chitarra può partire e non fermarsi mai più. Già, le schitarrate dei Quicksand, un'icona, un incubo, l'elemento soggiogante, a volte sapientemente cadenzate, altre rabbiosamente scatenate, sempre segnate da eterea levità.
La sezione ritmica si avvale di altri due purosangue, Alan Cage alla batteria e soprattutto il bassista Sergio Vega, che definiscono un vero e proprio canone, marchiando a fuoco un suono granitico e intransigente. Si innesta a meraviglia la voce postatomica di Screifels, che satura un rumore già incredibilmente denso, intrisa di disperazione ma sempre solenne e rigorosa.
13 (anni dopo). Gli amanti dei Quicksand si intendono a cenni, come i carbonari. Tutti si rallegrano che i quattro Icari si siano sciolti prima di lasciarsi sciogliere.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Fazer (03:13)
Standing like a sore thumb, out,
notice your image is different.
Traits that change, it's just too quick,
follow on clues and guess what, that's what, it's like.
Follow your ups and downs,
it's safe to say that I can't tell.
All sense aside.
Left out in the cold,
sight of your routine getting old.
Blame some indifference inside,
taken on shapes not to selective.
Just what you find.
Looking for seconds of peace of mind,
pieces of something to hold on to.
A job that you just can't hold down,
distracted for seconds, you're gone.
Follow your ups and downs,
it's safe to say that I can't tell.
All sense aside.
Left out in the cold,
sight of your routine getting old.
Blame some indifference inside,
taken on shapes not to selective.
Just what you find.
Where you find it.
Needing to find something,
is everything ok.
I hope you find your niche, someday soon.
Easy to change your phase,
to move from where you stand,
but you got to keep that face.
Each change you plan.
Wonder,
is everything ok,
the problem is hesitation.
02 Head to Wall (03:07)
Relax in time,
from the pain you've been.
I don't know anything,
but I can read what's on your face.
Just on moment,
just one more to struggle.
We all want everything,
but we all can't fit in the door.
Seven tries,
head to wall,
hurts your head.
Sort of trust,
that you'll get.
What you paid for soon.
Seven tries,
head to wall,
just to get cut.
And it's only time,
it's what you make it.
I don't know what it brings.
Hope for the good, hope from despair.
A second, just on moment,
just one more to trust.
Some time you'll get to see,
you where you want to be.
Seven tries,
head to wall,
hurts your head.
Sort of trust,
that you'll get.
What you paid for soon.
Seven tries,
head to wall,
just to get cut.
It's what you break down.
It's just a second.
A thrown in towel is the first thing.
Can't tell if it's the time that your gonna throw.
Push through or you'll never get,
to see what you gave up,
passed on.
Seven tries,
head to wall,
hurts your head.
Sort of trust,
that you'll get.
What you paid for soon.
Seven tries,
head to wall.
03 Dine Alone (03:28)
It's a cinch,
to, pass the time with you,
but hard to pass the time alone,
can you take it.
And it's true,
true, the couple next to you think you look strange.
Alone, what are your aims,
or do you have any.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
on, what the people say,
the couple next to me.
Pass the salt,
pour it in my wounds.
It looks like you have no friends,
can't keep up with the new trends.
Sorry, sorry, for myself I don't agree.
No, I always go out eating with my best friends.
It's less than normal.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
on, what the people say,
the couple next to me.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
on, what the people say.
I think at times.
04 Slip (02:21)
Waist down, deep tied,
now it's chest high.
Pressure pours down from the top down, all sides.
Something seeps down, inside,
you can't suppress when it's your want.
To revise, could have skipped the slide,
but you did not try.
Change it all when you get time.
When your first try�s not so bad.
Change it all when you get time.
Stay inside, it's as safe as you can get.
Trust in sleep, your,
delivery from, what your feeling,
in the time, your awake.
Try to fake out yourself,
the second you get wind of,
what went wrong this time.
Could have skipped the slide,
but you did not try.
Change it all when you get time.
When your first try�s not so bad.
Change it all when you get time.
Stay inside, it's as safe as you can get.
Safest from the life that you got.
Try to catch yourself,
you slipped, again.
Try to catch yourself,
you slipped, again.
But don't let it keep you in.
06 Lie and Wait (02:32)
Inequity solace,
in your driven sate.
Seize your right to earn the same.
She wants it.
How long must we wait,
before they take our side?
Sordid Practice,
engine overheated.
There's no way to cool.
Turned up on your side,
the one that you choose.
Why should they mind,
scared of what your thinking.
A strong resistant.
Sunday feeling,
under weight of what's to come.
Tired of living under thumb.
She wonders,
why did you say what you said.
Silently living is death.
Shout him down,
it's worth it,
no compromises on this.
Turned up on your side,
the one that you choose.
Why should they mind,
scared of what your thinking.
Scared of what your thinking.
She wonders,
How long, have we been senseless.
So tired and pensive.
Instead of stand up,
stand to the side.
Feel a strong resistant.
07 Unfulfilled (03:23)
To stand the test of time,
to stand alone.
To be without the glue,
that keeps us glued together.
And feeling so excrementable.
It only goes to show you,
how many ways you don't know you.
When the bad sets in,
I could use some sleep.
Resting, falling,
falling deeper than deep.
We miss the point to carry on,
we miss the point.
To carry on where.
Things you love but did not get.
And all the times you've been upset by,
unfulfilled dreams and visions,
and the guilt for your wrong decisions.
It's so hard to pry away.
Pry out from under all the lies,
and distractions of the world,
You've seen what they can do,
but you can't see your way out.
We miss the point to carry on.
All thing fall through.
That how it feels, when you hear the sound of disappointment.
So unsatisfied,
when the sight's set higher.
Some can't achieve, don't believe,
there is light at the end at all.
There's no light.
Time to reach out for what's real,
it's easy to miss, insist,
that you shouldn't always follow the first thing you feel.
08 Can Opener (03:39)
A trap to fall,
fall into easy,
believe in what you look like, outside.
A stain you can't remove.
A stain that keeps you from that place,
where you'd probably have much left to prove.
Come down, don't fall, over your ego.
Don't mind your friends,
they just want to go where the fun goes down.
Yeah, you want to go up, up-up, up,
hip, hip, hooray, for you.
Now your the one that everyone talks about.
The attention your not getting it makes you so upset.
So take, me down,
to the place where you can look your best,
better than anyone else around.
A stain you can't remove.
A stain that keeps you from that place,
where you'd probably have much less to prove.
Once you tried.
Once you tried,
tried to get it right,
but you couldn't figure out what it takes,
to be liked,
you're grown up.
And now you've gone back,
to find, a way, to get, along, it's just, an act.
You can wipe that smile.
Now you're the one that everyone talks about.
Take time, take it easy.
I know you work so hard,
but your advantage is your beauty,
and that's beautiful.
Take time, take it easy.
I know you work so hard,
but you know what your advantage is,
and that's beautiful,
and that's beautiful,
and that's beauty.
09 Omission (02:33)
I, said,
Why do I always have to spell it out for you?
Our story is always changing.
We change it to hide the pain.
And when the truth rears,
its ugly head, it's all too late.
Too late for the omission,
that you kept inside and wished it wasn't you.
Does it seem like the same man?
Doesn't seem the same at all.
I can feel myself fall,
falling, down.
You can wave goodbye to your bad side,
and suppress the feelings that could hurt you mind.
There is no need for lies if the news ain't breaking.
Framework falling,
down on the downside,
built on a weak spot,
facts hiding in your mind,
wait until the bomb drops.
We have more sense than lies.
The story is in our eyes.
Does it seem like the same man?
Doesn't seem the same at all.
I can feel myself fall,
falling, down on the downside, built on a weak spot,
facts hiding in your mind, wait until the bomb drops.
It doesn't seem like the same man?
Doesn't seem the same at all.
I can feel myself fall,
falling, down.
11 Too Official (02:48)
Give someone some piece of your mind.
Shine it, shine what you've been assigned.
Has your identity sold out?
Sit in the back and make no sound,
this earth will swallow you down.
Honest it makes you sick.
You don't act on what you think�s right.
Honestly want to kick down,
doors that keep you in.
Let your hair down.
Sometimes relax your stiff posture.
Or so they say, all work no play make you dull.
Chance to change the patterns we're born to.
A fear of appearing too concerned,
try to speak, but the words just get stuck.
Honest it makes you sick.
You don't act on what you think�s right.
Honestly want to kick down,
doors that keep you in.
Each time you get to raise your hand for changes you don't know your luck,
so put yourself to use like,
you were taught by, by your heroes.
You speak your mind, that's something.
You speak your mind, that's something.
We don't get it too often.
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