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Che i Rise Against di disco in disco abbiano incrementato il bacino di potenziali ascoltatori, arrivando alle orecchie di molti è un dato di fatto. Nonostante questo la proposta del quartetto è sempre rimasta avvincente anche se qualcosa comincia a cambiare e "Appeal To Reason" ne costituisce la prova.
Non che i nostri si siano dati al reggae, ma comunque è evidenziabile un certo alleggerimento dei toni a favori di brani più orientati verso il mid-tempo e la melodia a scapito di chitarre graffianti, urla e parti detonanti di batteria in classico quattro quarti.
Naturalmente i tratti distintivi del gruppo di Chicago rimangano sempre evidenti, sebbene qui diluiti e liofilizzati rispetto al passato recente in un punk rock che tutttavia non si fa mancare anche sfumature di modern-rock e solo rari accenni del passato hc melodico (le ottime "Kotov Syndrome" e la funanbolica opener "Collapse (Post Amerika)".
Ma il presente è rappresentato da brani quali "Re-Education (Through Labour)" e "Audience of one" ovvero a cavallo tra rock e punk melodico.
I pezzi che presentano qualcosa di nuovo sono "Entertainment" con le sue repentine accelerazioni e un intermezzo vagamento folkloristo inedito con tanto di fisarmonica e la finale "Whereabouts unknown" una sorta di "Dancing for rain" pt.2, che porta acqua al mulino e in cui le linee vocali di McIlrath risultano più avvincenti e ispirate della media dei pezzi.
Un disco comunque abbastanza vario negli stili proposti, capace di passare da brani scanzonati con ritornelli decisamente orecchiabili vedasi "Saviour" o "The dirt whispered" a toni più vivaci e inquietanti la già citata "Entertainment" a parti più intime e riflessive come nel toccante episodio acustico di "Hero of war" ormai diventato un appuntamento fisso nelle ultime uscite del combo.
L'unico appunto che si può muovere nella realizzazione di questo disco è l'accantonamento quasi totale delle parti urlate che hanno sempre dato quella marcia in più nelle composizioni e "Whereabouts unknown" con il suo finale pirotecnico e frastornato con le sue parti urlate e potenti ne è purtroppo la dimostrazione, che per il futuro i Rise Against debbano rivedere questa scelta.
Un disco che nonostane magari non presenti in tutti i 13 brani + bonus track sempre trovate geniali, a dispetto di molte opinioni critiche sparse in giro per il web, riesce comunque ad adempiere al suo scopo primario, quello di regalare mezz'ora di intrattenimento, facendoci per un po' allontanare dalle preoccupazioni della vita quotidiana.
Promossi, nonostante i tre precedenti capitoli discografici continuino ad avere una marcia in più.
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04 The Dirt Whispered (03:09)
She got down on hands and knees,
One ear against the ground,
Holding her breath to hear something,
But the dirt made not a sound tonight
Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores,
Where we danced just to please the gods that only ask for more,
So it goes
But still we give ourselves to this
We can't spend our lives waiting to live
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I'm falling
Through the cracks I slip
The postcard says wish you were here
But I’d rather I was there,
Holding on to the simple things before they disappear,
That’s what I meant
But that was then, and this is now
I'll make it up to you somehow
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I'm falling
Through the cracks I slip
A destination, a fading smile.
Another station, another mile.
Another day gone, I swore that I will.
Be there before dawn.
So be there, I will.
She got down on hands and knees,
One ear against the ground,
Holding her breath to hear something,
Anything at all
The dirt whispered, "Child, I'm coming home"
On cold nights
In a prayer for dawn
But the daylight
Isn’t what she wants
The concrete
Calls my name again
I'm falling
Through the cracks I slip
05 Kotov Syndrome (03:05)
There, high on the watchtower
Keeping the peace
Whatever that means
cause you see the world through
Crosshairs and TVs, don't you?
Ten foot walls built around us
White picket death
So quiet, so safe
But if we fall there will be nothing and no one to catch
So sit back and watch as we
Spin out of control
Spin out of control
Try to recover, but collide with each other
We spin out of control
Something I cannot change
I was born in a place
That lives by the sword
And thus to it's blade we're condemned
Don't you understand why we scream "no more"?
My dreams are of children
Orphaned by blood
Spilled at these hands
Here on the graves of the innocent
We raise our flag
Spin out of control
Spin out of control
Try to recover, but collide with each other
We spin out of control
Somethings you don't forgive, somethings you don't forget
Sometimes the fate you suffer is so much worse than death
We're way off course now and we're drifting out to sea
So cut the anchor on your heart to be set free
Set free
Set free
Spin out of control
Spin out of control
Spin out of control
Spin out of control
Try to recover, we have to recover
We fall and crash, one after the other
Spin out of control
09 Entertainment (03:34)
All we are is entertainment
Caught up in our own derangement
Tell us what to say and what to do
All we are are pretty faces
Picture perfect bottled rage
Packaged synthesized versions of you
We've all made petty fortunes, but we can't afford a life
Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms (hey, hey, hey, hey)
They all scream California and its toppling empire
But can't you see the end is coming soon
Hey!
Come one, come all, the new sensation
Guarantees then obligations
Spotlights follow every single move (move, move, move)
Basking here on ten foot stages
Pouty lips and oh so jaded
All as if we have something to prove
Despite these petty fortunes we still can't afford a life
Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms (hey, hey, hey, hey)
They all scream California and its toppling empire
But can't you see the end is here
And if we cared at all
about this unknown plight
then we'd do something more
to finally make this right
Is this only entertainment
Pull the curtains, places please
We've learned to sing and dance and cry on cue
But this is more than entertainment
In a world so sick with pain
This is the only thing that's real or true
We've all made petty fortunes, but we can't afford a life
Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms (hey, hey, hey, hey)
They all scream bloody murder over graves already dug
But can't you see the end...
11 Savior (04:02)
It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
What the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
As the telling signs of age rain down, a single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten
There is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
And there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
But seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you
Like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear
So tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you but
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have, whoa oh, whoa oh
And the day pressed on like crushing weights
For no man does it ever wait
Like memories of dying days that deafen us like hurricanes
Bathed in flames we held the brand, uncurled the fingers in your hand
Pressed into the flesh like sand, now do you understand?
So tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you but
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have, whoa oh, whoa oh
One thousand miles away, there's nothing left to say
But so much left that I don't know
We never had a choice, this world is too much noise
It takes me under, it takes me under once again
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no
So tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you but
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have, whoa oh whoa oh
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, whoa oh, whoa oh
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no, whoa oh, whoa oh
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Altre recensioni
Di AssafetidaLover
"Collapse si snoda attraverso stacchi brucianti e repentini, paradigma del hardcore melodico."
"McIlrath si riconferma songwriter di talento, capace di cristallizzare frammenti disperati di realtà in versi crudi e veri."
Di RiseAgainst
L'unico problema è che Tim non urla più come una volta, e questo è il maggior problema del disco.
Ci sono momenti in cui sanno farti emozionare 'Hero of War' anche se siamo lontani da altre di questo genere come 'Swing Life Away'.
