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UK: pioggia, fish & chips, la Regina d'Inghilterra, i Beatles; ma anche una delle band più sottovalutate del panorama Rock/Metal (sopratutto Metal) degli ultimi 20 anni.
Pionieri di un Tech/Math Metal progressivo e cangiante, quello che dopo qualche anno e qualche disco sarebbe diventato il cosiddetto "Djent", grazie all'apporto di Meshuggah, The Dillinger Escape Plan e pochi altri (tra cui i SiKth, per l'appunto), al secondo parto propongono un sound fatto di tempi stortissimi, chitarre ribassatissime (6 corde un semitono sotto, con la sesta corda in G#), voci ispirate ai Korn più moderni, un basso funky e una sezione ritmica in generale potentissima.
Un cocktail interessante, sopratutto per i tempi in cui esplodeva il Metalcore e i "Nu" Metallari si stavano appunto spostando verso nuove sonorità: canzoni come Part of the Friction, Bland Street Bloom, Summer Rain rappresentano dei veri e propri capolavori purtroppo sottovalutati al tempo dell'uscita di questo suddetto, appunto, capolavoro, mentre il resto della tracklist si assesta su livelli che oscillano tra il grandioso e l'ottimo, una su tutte, la jazzata e progressiva When the Moment's Gone, una delle tracce migliori del lotto.
Un sound dannatamente fresco e innovativo, copiatissimo negli anni futuri, in maniera quasi smisurata, senza contare ovviamente la quantità smisurata di band cloni e simili nate grazie a questa band e a questo disco in particolare (Fellsilent, etc.), citando ovviamente anche i vari "tributi" di grupponi come Periphery e Monuments, che hanno pubblicamente citato la band inglese come grande ispirazione per la loro musica.
Insomma, una proposta "vecchia" ma che non deve assolutamente mancare per chi vuole ascoltare della musica veramente eccezionale, e sopratutto, capire come si è evoluto il genere "Heavy" negli ultimi 20 anni.
Gioiello.
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01 Bland Street Bloom (05:40)
As the dove rains(x2)
There's no ambition, told from vision
Pre-recorded maze of wisdom
Bland Street Bloom, a moronic feeling
No ambition, plague of pidgeons
Twisted up in your maze of wisdom
Shake-up, make-up, fake-up
Think you need some healing
No ambition
Same old wrong millenium scorn
Maze of wisdom
Bland Street Bloom, a moronic feeling
Pretty little birds all singing in the street
Few trees left, bare and shivering
In this hollow bitter street
No ambition, told from vision
Pre-recorded maze of wisdom
Bland Street Bloom (x5)
As the dove rains blood (x4)
A world of wonders
Man-made mechanical thunders
(dove, blood, dove, blood)
Like stuffing a turkey
Gutless, hollow
Man-made premeditated hole
Like a rock that doesn't roll
You are the rock that doesn't roll
Like a rock that doesn't roll
You are the rock that doesn't roll
Empty coal into the fruit bowl
Become a machine
Just one of the people
Welcome to the middle road
Your soul has now been scrolled.
No backbone, just torn and thrown
Into the show you go
No backbone, just malignant groans
Of what and where and now
Of what and when and how of what
Don't count on nothing being free
Because when you're in the concrete sea
Not you or me in between
I can't stand them, I can't stand this
About as much fun as drinking a pint of piss
Can't wear that and you can't smoke this
Bitter as a cold brew
Bitter as a cold brew pint of piss
A world of wonders
Man-made mechanical thunders
(dove, blood, dove, blood)
As the dove rains blood over the streets
Man-made mechanical thunders
I think I've seen this thing to many times before
Mediocrity has never been a way of life
I've been inspired by seeing all this strife!
Bland Street Bloom (x4)
I can't stand them, I can't stand this
About as much fun as drinking a pint of piss
Can't wear that and you can't smoke this
Bitter as a cold brew
Bitter as a cold brew pint of piss
03 Way Beyond the Fond Old River (05:02)
you will never really know until
youve learnt to lead
never understand until youve sown the
seed
you can gather information with the
will to read
but youll never really know until
youve sown the seed
we live and learn to fly away
travel through the clouds to fly
away
thought to save as blessins somedays
learnt
when tables turn and bridges soon
then burn
while the moral mans making trees
from the gathered leaves
we gather round the fire and smoke to
sea
for you will never know where some
ideas can lead
you will never know until youve sown
the seed
the sea
way beyond the fond old river
(way beyond the fond old river)
Paint is bled to form the shiver
shiver
(shiver shiver shiver)
while the metal gathers moss
(while the metal gathers moss)
and you standing on the gloss.well
we seem to only really know of these
ways to feed
microwave our meals the oranges
we peel
you can know the station by the sign
you read
but youll never really know until
youve learnt to lead
we live and learn to fly away
travel through the clouds to find
your way
thought to save as blessins somedays
learnt
when thunder turns can blossom soon
be earned?
while the feral mans making trees
from the gathered leaves
we gathered round the fire and smoked
the sea
for you will never know where some
ideas can lead
you will never know until youve sown
the seed
way beyond the fond old river
(way beyond the fond old river)
Paint is bled to form the shiver
shiver
(shiver shiver shiver)
while the metal gathers moss
(while the metal gathers moss)
and you standing on the gloss.well
we had. we had admired to fly away
we had. we had admired to fly away
again
we had we had admired the flight to
far away again
now those lakes are stains. drained
and gone
the leaves they float and somedays
they do turn
within that hole under sea
way past the shell
now you can see
beyond those trees
and tears could be ridden
ignore the din of pained paper clones
though
04 Summer Rain (03:35)
Well, I built you up
To be something that you were not
Something too good, something bright,
Something too perfect, too right
Goodnight, now you're running out of Sight, goodnight
Say it once again
I built you up to be something you were not
Someone too good, too perfect, too right, goodnight
Now these tears are out of sight
But once again you bring the summer rain
It hurts much less this way
You always, you always seem to say
You always seem to say
Then bring the summer rain
Feels like we're not meant to be two
But when I'm with you it feels like just
You and me (in a happy tree)
The waves of love around our beings
The energy, the summer rain
Well it didn't seem to smile on us those days
Now it seemed to smile on us those days
Distances make worlds so small
I built you up to be something you were not
Someone too good, too perfect, too right, goodnight
Now these tears are out of sight
But once again you bring the summer rain
It hurts much less this way
You always, you always seem to say
You always seem to say
Then bring the summer rain
Like a friend, like a friend in a new
Lover (like a friend)
Like a friend, where's the friend in my
New lover (like a friend)
Like a friend in my new lover, my
Love grown fond of you
But I know there ain't a damn thing I can do
Everyday I've thought of you
Everyday, everyday, everyday I call
Then we try to walk but then we fall
Every step I seem to take and go
Without you it's just an empty wall
05 In This Light (04:24)
When all the hail seems far away
In my sight
Like it won't ever rain here
In this light, In this light
Let me sit right by your side
In this light
Let me sit right there
Sail
As the water lays under our sky
When all the hail seems so far away
In my sight
Just like it won't ever rain here
Let me sit right by your side
In this light
Just let me sit right there
Alone...on my own
In this light we sail
As the water lays under our sky
Let me sit right by your side
In this light
Let me sit right there
Sail
As the water lays under our sky
Sail
As the water lays under our sky
07 Mermaid Slur (00:47)
Is this the desperate mile?
Are the seagulls hungry still?
Did the pond run out of water?
Turn into a motorway?
Did the forest see itself slaughtered and modelled into decay?
Did the kitten pur?
Did the mermaid slur?
I can't see a wind of wind of a way
We wonder then thunder
Winding road old cold abode
Under mountain snow and howling skies
Where it is grey but to survive first you must be alive
Pinch your skin and look within
Find a thought and a fish finger, baked beans upon your plate, its gotten late again
Why did the wilderness weep tonight?
Do you know the way out?
Do you know the way out?
10 Where Do We Fall? (04:40)
A question never left me through our days
buries it all inside for this man you
know
who wanted it all then
and now this film is ending
the credits pass this storys done
im still searching
keeping it all away from you
im not so sure that
this silence will speak anymore
left falling down again
cos this feeling wasnt there
but to leave it all
to estrange me from this place ive come to know
my palace of dreams. our fresh water streams
we ventured together we ventured apart
a lake of love rain from above
i want to feel you zeal
to feel your zeal what shall i do? be strong like you?
whats right whats wrong whats going
on?
a question never left me through these
days
but when it tasted stale everything
really looked greener
over the other side
cos i was just clinging onto
a moment past
that we could
no lonver sustain
i kept it all aay from you
im not so sure that
this silence will speak anymore
left falling down again
cos this feeling wasnt there
but to leave it all
to estrange me from this place ive
come to know
take my hand my love my dame
we could walk through the cranky
lanes
but i lay and i sway in my submarine
on top of the world in a plastic
ashtray
well where do we go and where do we fall?
someone needs somthing and something needs all
11 Another Sinking Ship (04:02)
Liars
Shape my frown
I see through your words
Stone down like a hound
Liars
Faceless clowns
I see through your heroes
Swimming to the shore
Picaroon you come so soon, you've taken all I had
My tolerance exhausted paint a picture only using
Lying to the faces that make you a less lonesome man
Picturing a way of life where fear and hate could not appear
Can it be this life you lead, well nothing seems too clear
What are we doing here?
Swamped by fear
What are we doing here?
Fear
Brings death brings fear
What are we doing here?
Five thousand more lies are laying in the mist
Not suitable equipped
Lesson of the day, you only betray
Lesson of the day
Lesson of the day
Of the day
You only betray
You only betray
Lesson of the day
You only betray
You only betray
Was it a so called man with a so called plan?
Well I don't want to be another television lamb
Television lamb
Television lamb
Fear brings death brings fear
What are we doing here?
Swamped in fear
What are we doing here?
Fear
Brings us death and then that makes more fear
Is this how it's meant to be for you and me?
Lying to my face again, you never found yourself
Something tells me that things may have gone too far
Warning the next hell ball in your quagmire
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear if the
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear of the
Fear
Picturing the ship you sank
Try to make me, walk the plank
Picaroon you come so soon, you've taken all I had
My tolerance exhausted paint a picture only using
Lying to the faces that make you a less lonesome man
Picturing a way of life where fear and hate could not appear
Can it be this life you lead, well nothing seems too clear
What are we doing here?
Swamped in fear
What are we doing here?
Fear
Is this how it's meant to be?
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Altre recensioni
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