New York, 1983. La ricerca musicale è in fermento, le sperimentazioni più ardite si susseguono implacabili, quel movimento folle ed anarchico denominato "No Wave" si è ormai stabilmente insidiato in città, ed oltre. E' in questo clima che i Sonic Youth, influenzati anche dal re del minimalismo Glenn Branca, producono l'album che segna l'avvio del loro sentiero luminoso e oscuro: "Confusion Is Sex".
Il disco, che nella ristampa del 1995 contiene anche le tracce dell'EP "Kill Yr. Idols", presenta nove brani all'avanguardia e di ardua digeribilità. Dopo il primo pezzo, "Bad Mood", probabilmente il più vicino al concetto di "normalità", comincia un tragitto attraverso canzoni che non sono canzoni: sono puri deliri di rumore. Ecco allora che i Sonic Youth ci traghettano dagli abissi ribollenti di "Shaking Hell" (con una Kim Gordon in stato di grazia) alle inquietanti cime di "The World Looks Red", per scaraventarci poi in mezzo al vortice impazzito di "Confusion is Next" e sferrare il colpo di grazia con la delirante "Lee Is Free". Il tutto tra chitarre che ora suonano come campane, ora emettono lamenti stridenti; tra voci che ora evocano squallide nenie ("Protect Me You"), ora urlano impazzite ("I Wanna Be Your Dog", dove Kim tocca vertici che non raggiungerà più); tra ritmi ora lentissimi, ora frenetici. Non esiste una via di mezzo, non deve esserci una via di mezzo, in un lavoro come questo.
Follia, alienazione, caos, odio, furore: ogni singola nota dell'album è intrisa da questi cinque elementi, espressi tramite un Noise-rock aggressivo e disperato.
Questo è "Confusion Is Sex".
Uno stupro sonoro.
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01 (She's in a) Bad Mood (05:30)
[Thurston]
She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it
She's in a bad mood
But i won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But i can't fall for it
02 Protect Me You (05:21)
[Kim] Protect me from ravagement I'm ten years old I don't know what to do Protect me myself I'm fourteen There's nothing to do Protect me yourself I'm sixteen Protect me from starving I'm eighteen Protect me you I don't know what to do Protect me demons That come at night I don't know what they say Their whispering Sends the night air away And makes me forget I hope they come Again and again Here they come Again and again I hope they come again Again Again
04 Shaking Hell (03:56)
[Kim]
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll take off your dress
I'll take off your dress
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around
Shake
[repeat nine times]
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake shake
[repeat eighteen times]
Shake
05 Inhuman (03:56)
Oi
Aha [repeat ten times]
My body is a pasttime
My mind is a simple joy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
A complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
My body is a past time
My mind is a simplejoy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
07 Confusion Is Next (03:21)
I maintain that
Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Tell nothing but the truth
08 Making the Nature Scene (02:56)
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene
Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene
Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
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Altre recensioni
Di Alessandro Gentili
Ascoltare questo disco fa male, è nocivo, è una perversione masochistica, ma in fondo il titolo è un’avvertenza: la confusione è sesso.
Una furia caotica degna del miglior punk permea gran parte dei brani, all’insegna del noise puro ed estremo.
Di ZiOn
"Chaos is the future and behind it is freedom, confusion is next and next after that is the truth..."
"Consiglio davvero a tutti di comprare questo disco ed ascoltarlo, pronti ad essere sconvolti da un sound unico e rivoluzionario."
