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I Sick Puppies sono Shimon Moore (voce e chitarra), Emma Anzai (basso) e Mark Goodwin (batteria), una band australiana quasi sconosciuta in Italia, che sta avendo un discreto successo negli Stati Uniti. Li ho scoperti, come molti di quelli che li conoscono, con "All the same" brano che ha fatto da sfondo al famosissimo video dei "free hughs" su youtube.
"Dressed Up As Life" è il loro secondo album. Un album di puro stile rock tradizionale. Si apre con "My world" che introduce perfettamente lo stile della band australina. E' una delle canzoni piu belle del disco, da cui e stato tratto anche il video, con un bel assolo di chitarra nel finale. Si prosegue con "Pitful" e "Cancer", due canzoni spudoratamente roccheggianti. "What Are You Looking For" è la prima delle tre ballate rock, che presenta linee melodiche molto incisive. La quinta traccia è "Deliverence" in cui si fanno sentire le distorsioni di Emma Anzai, soprannominata "the female Flea". Un paragone esagerato, ma è sicuramente strano vedere una ragazza così brava al basso, una vera rarità in questo tipo di genere musicale. Se siete di lacrime facili, adesso è arrivato il monento di armarsi di fazzoletti: il sesto brano è la splendida "All The Same", seconda ballata, in cui la voce di Moore viene accompagnata meravigliosamente dalla chitarra acustica. Una vera e propia power song, che sarebbe perfetta come colonna sonora di un film romantico strappalacrime. E sempre per i romantici il disco continua con "Too Many Words", bellissima canzone con una melodia simile a quella precendente, molto delicata finché non intervengono gli altri strumenti che cominciano a girare attorno alla melodia, scatenando un riff accellerato e terminando in crescendo.
Ottavo brano è "Howards Tale" un misto di blues e alternative rock. Ascoltando "Asshole Father", nona traccia, sembra di risentire "Too Many Words"; una formula ripetuata fin troppe volte all'interno del disco, diventando troppo prevedibile. "Issues" è invece la canzone piu dura, un incandescente hard rock allo stato puro. La penultima traccia è "Anywhere But Here", canzone di cui si sarebbe potuto benissimo fare a meno, perchè non aggiunge niente di nuovo al disco. E alla fine per chi ama il rock con la R maiuscola, arriva "The Bottom" che riasume lo stile energico e immediato della band.
Tirando le somme consiglio assoluamente questo disco rock ben suonato. L'ottima alternanza tra momenti di quiete e pura energia rock, è la caratteristica fondamentale di questo cd, che si ascolta con piacere dal primo all'ultimo minuto.
Questa è la mia prima recensione, accetto volentieri critiche e consigli.
Recensione di Davide Di Franco
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01 My World (03:59)
I'm not comin' back
I'm not gonna' react
I'm not doin' shit for you
I'm not sitting around
While you're tearing it down around us
I'm not living a lie
While you swim in denial
'Cause you're already dead and gone
You'll leave me out on the curb
Just like everyone else before you
Welcome to my world
Where everyone I ever need
Always ends up leaving me alone
Another lesson burned
And I'm drowning in the ashes
Kicking
Screaming
Welcome to my world
I don't care what you think
I'm not seeing a shrink
I'm not doing this again
I'm not another
Student or another
To take your shit out on
So let's see what you got
And let's see what you're not
And whatever else you pretend
You've defended my intentions
Long enough
Welcome to my world
Where everyone I ever need
Always ends up leaving me alone
Another lesson burned
And I'm drowning in the ashes
Kicking
Screaming
Welcome to my world
So here I am again
In the middle of the end
And the choice I wish I'd made
I always make too late
Welcome to my world
Where everyone I ever need
Always ends up leaving me alone
Another lesson burned
And I'm drowning in the ashes
Kicking
Screaming
Welcome to my world
02 Pitiful (03:44)
Made the toast
Burned the eggs
Never got the hang of them
Just another other day
Caught the bus
Forgot the change
Looks like I'll be late again
Hopefully they won't complain
My life's so pitiful
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't end it all
If there's a reason then I haven't found it yet
And I try every drug I find
Except maybe heroin and cyanide
But there's a reason I just can't afford it yet.
Oh, it's just another overdose.
Went to work
Saw you there
But you never seem to care
For a single thing I say
I set my clock and went to sleep
This anxiety I'll keep
Through another fuckin' day.
Looks like that's all today, I'm dyin'
My life's so pitiful
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't end it all
If there's a reason then I haven't found it yet
And I try every drug I find
Except maybe heroin and cyanide
But there's a reason I just can't afford it yet.
Oh, it's just another overdose
My life's so pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
My life's so pitiful
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't end it all
If there's a reason then I haven't found it yet
And I try every drug I find
Except maybe heroin and cyanide
But there's a reason I just can't afford 'em yet.
My life's so pitiful
My life's so pitiful
My life's so pitiful
I'm DYING!
05 Deliverance (03:12)
Waiting for another line
Cause you throw them at me all the time
Gotta get away from all her lies
And I gotta get away from mine
Tell me where to go
When fate won't deliver
Cause I can't forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I've been living
Will her next collision be me
Brings situation down
And her temper's always on the rise
I'm living what I've seen before
Well I won't take this anymore
It's time to hold this to the light
Tell me where to go
When fate won't deliver
Cause I can't forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I've been living
Will her next collision be me
Cause her mental prison is not my decision
So I'm cutting my losses this time
I'm no longer living through her tunnel vision
Tell me where to go
When fate won't deliver
Cause I can't forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I've been living
Will her next collision be me
Gotta get away from
Gotta get away
Gotta get away this time
Tell me where to go
When fate won't deliver
Cause I can't forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I've been living
Will her next collision be me
09 Asshole Father (03:00)
I waited for you yesterday
I waited and missed the last train
I waited to say that I'd fallen in love with your way
I waited for you yesterday
Eventually walked home in the rain
I waited to see if you felt the same for me
But you don't,
And you won't
Go against your ass old father
Going broke,
Quitting dope
For your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
I waited for minds to change
Pointing their fingers of blame
It's not my fault you're ashamed of how you feel
But you don't,
And you won't
Go against your ass old father
Going broke,
Quitting dope
For your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
Cause you don't
Just admit it
Cause you won't
Just admit it
Just admit it
Just admit it
Just admit it
Just admit it
I called you a whore and down your door
And how could I heal when you won't even feel?
But you don't and you won't
Go against your ass old father
Going broke,
Quitting dope
For your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
But you don't cause your nothing but
Broken down daddy's little daughter
AREN'T CHA?!!
Going broke,
Quitting dope
For your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
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