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"Leave The Story Untold" è il primissimo album della band dei fratelli Dewaele e ancor più del successivo "Much against everyone's advice" è testimonianza del loro antico amore per l'indie rock puro e duro. Dico ancora di più perchè rispetto al loro secondo lavoro, più etereo e psichedelico, qui domina il lato chitarristico e nervoso della band e molti pezzi sono sostenuti da solidi riff. Insomma nessun ombra del loro futuro destino da dj e neppure del rock elettronico dei nuovi Soulwax, ma al limite qualche sperimentazione indie, mai troppo azzardata, e un gusto quasi spasmodico per l'alternanza di brani rock tirati e ballate.
Sorvolando sul trascurabile intro già "Reruns" si apre con un bel riff poderoso, sorprende con un ritornello "acustico", e chiude con un interessante assolo piuttosto acido. "Caramel", la ballata che segue, mescola la chitarra acustica con i suoni gracchianti di un sintetizzatore che interferisce con la semplice e orecchiabile melodia. "Kill your darlings" inizia senza preavviso, subito tirata e con la chitarra che sembra a tratti virare verso il cross-over. "Great Continental suicide note" e un altro pezzo lento con un arrangiamento solido, con piano, archi e una chitarra acustica che si elettrifica solo per arricchire il brano di piccole sfumature. "Soul Simplicity" è il più potente dei pezzi rock, ma riserva in coda un rallentamento dei toni e un passaggio verso sonorità blues. Insomma come si può intuire le intenzioni della band sono quelle di creare un disco fondamentalmente rock, ma non troppo omogeneo e qua e là cercano di sorprendere l'ascoltatore con repentine trasformazioni negli arrangiamenti. Altri brani interessanti sono "Tales of a dead scene", un vivace pezzo "neo-acustico" e la conclusiva "Acapulco gold" in cui la band si cimenta con un riff funk-rock.
Nel complesso il disco può sembrare leggermente acerbo, ma la qualità e le idee non mancano. Ed è interessante notare quanto l'esperienza dance dei leader del gruppo abbiano influito e trasformato il sound della band.
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02 Reruns (Daisy Duke) (03:10)
Hell, spookin' all over me
But the sight of you just
Breaks my heart in
Three - Ways of tellin' you
First you scratch the surface
Then you pull the plug!
Chorus:
If you get low it takes you by the hand
Daisy Duke
Don't you know
Soon it will start again
Daisy Duke
Like a dreamy resonance
The same chase oasis
Quick in a slow way
Can't you see
That I know: You won't come around
To take me away from here
(Chorus)
03 Caramel (04:20)
You fell down the stairs,
been done before
stuck to the seats like Caramel
caramel
No word is spoken,
try and act serene
stuck on each other
like caramel
caramel
Red splendour above my head
the ugly, the bad and the good.
I saw you projected there
on canvas oil of blood
World where have you gone
watch them leaving
stuck on somebody else
like caramel,
Caramel
Red splendour above my head
the ugly, the bad and the good
I saw you projected there
on canvas oil of blood
Strung out on each other's lines
heroes with an edge
I saw you projected there
but it didn't make any sense
04 Kill Your Darlings (03:19)
There's a script - but I ain't writin'
Left that stage all in my mind
Cause I'm not hip to your sign language
Sticky fingers of a different kind
The same word, foreign language
In the same season, they killed you twice
For the sake of human nature
Sweet smell shotgun for the hip and blind
She strokes the gun - feel how it's warm
Got a mouthful dirt and razors
It'll cut right through last month's flavour
with a mouthful, wasted terrors
Kill your Darlings, Kill your Darlings
Cause I tried bein' helpful
Sayin' things I don't understand
Can't come up with no new lines
from their sweet surfaced mouths
She strokes the gun - feel how it's warm
Got a mouthful dirt and razors
It'll cut right through last month's flavour
with a mouthful, wasted terrors
Kill your Darlings, Kill your Darlings
Kiss the gun, bite the bullets
Get off the stick - get on
She can
Well I've seen all their faces
Shakin' hands full of napalm traces
She strokes the gun - feel how it's warm
Got a mouthful dirt and razors
It'll cut right through last month's flavour
with a mouthful, wasted terrors
Kill your Darlings, Kill your Darlings
06 Soul Simplicity (04:34)
Try me
You heard me
Standing there
I don't agree
Before being crushed
This is a call
Soul Simplicity
No need to rush
This is the soul of a new identity
Can't You See
Why so mean
chorus
I Feel
You do it to yourself
Noone gets out
Stop competing with God Come to me
On my knees
I Feel they
Whisper at me
12 Long Distance Zoom (03:08)
Feels like nothin' is real
when all you can hear is sorry again
please don't take my fraud
as I finish my thoughts for you
it's my new favourite word
it's a three letter hurt from inside
As I try to forget
it's as far as I'll get to hatin' you
Complicated - cannot find the words
Let your mind fall down
Sophisticated - love the way, it hurts
Let your mind fall down!
It's a long distance zoom
As I try to forget
It's as far as I'll get to hatin' you
Tell me - write it down - long distance zoom!
Complicated - cannot find the words
Let your mind fall down
Sophisticated - love the way it hurts
let your mind fall down
14 Acapulco Gold (13:32)
Common cancer - on the telephone
Dead stop radio - try an suck a hole
Gif wise tongue - dead gone monotone
It's all around your big white ears
A life in the day - dream on dreamin' on
Milk my mind - keep on keepin' on
Make me cream - have a taste son
10 000 Miles under the soul
Leave the story untold
But the map's already unfold
Everybody's soul searchin' for
Acapulco gold
Hands up raised high
Keep your mind blowin'
Won't you pay no mind
Got your face glowin'
Keep your fi-hi
With my mind blowin'
It's been travellin' to wherever it should
Leave the story untold
But the map's already unfold
Everybody's soul searching for
Acapulco gold
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