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Il "bentornato" bisogna meritarselo. E c'è da dire che gli Stereophonics di Kelly Jones stavolta se lo meritano, in maniera piena e convinta.
"Pull The Pin", seguito di "Language. Sex. Violence. Other?", è un gran bell'album, che mette ben volentieri in mostra le varie anime della band gallese, arricchisce il sound generale (invero piuttosto appiattito nel precedente lavoro) e aggiunge qualche nuova influenza nel tessuto connettivo del gruppo (cosa che non guasta mai).
Il nuovo disco arriva dopo un album live e dopo il primo "divertissement" solista di Kelly Jones; di quest'ultimo troviamo traccia solo in "Bright Red Star", che segue la via acustica ed intimista del solo album del buon Kelly. Per il resto, come da tradizione ormai consolidata, si parte con un brano dal riff sporco e deciso come "Soldiers Make Good Targets", che può essere erede di alcune delle opener dei vecchi dischi, come "Vegas Two Times" o "Help Me (She's Out Of Her Mind)". Si prosegue con "Pass The Buck", brano super orecchiabile in cui Jones infila il classico coretto ("pa-pa-pa/pa-pa-pa/pa-pa-pappa") alla ‘phonics per poi urlare a squarciagola in un ritornello che dire radiofonico è dire poco.
Seguono i due singoli: il nuovo, "It Means Nothing", una sorta di nuova "Maybe Tomorrow", diventerà probabilmente l'ennesima hit del gruppo. E' una ballata languida, in cui l'inconfondibile voce di Kelly la fa da padrona per poi esplodere, come consuetudine, in un finale urlato, emozionante e viscerale. E' stata scritta subito dopo gli attacchi alla metro londinese, e si sente. L'altro singolo, "Bank Holiday Monday", è un rock ‘n roll secco e tirato di tre minuti e spiccioli, gradevole e diretto.
L'anima pacata dell'album arriva nella parte centrale del disco; "Daisy Lane" è una chicca pop molto semplice e piacevole, dotata dell'ennesimo coretto e costruita su un semplice arpeggio di chitarra e una batteria elettronica affatto invadente. "Stone", invece, risente molto del rock evocativo dei Coldplay, e stavolta la carica emozionale si libera tutta nel bellissimo refrain. Non a caso, inizialmente il pezzo era schedulato come secondo singolo. Le chitarre elettriche tornano a farsi vive nelle successive "My Friends" e "I Could Lose Ya", per poi essere accantonate nella succitata "Bright Red Star". In "Lady Luck" i Coldplay (stavolta quelli di "Politik") tornano ad essere molto di più di una presenza ectoplasmatica, così come "Crush" potrebbe essere uscita benissimo dalle sessions di "Word Gets Around". "Drowning" chiude su tonalità roccheggianti, per poi spegnersi lentamente nel finale.
Certo nessuno grida al miracolo, ma gli Stereophonics, dopo dieci anni suonati di carriera, riescono ancora a sfornare dischi molto validi e gradevoli. E tant'è.
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01 Soldiers Make Good Targets (04:37)
What kind of pace are we living now?
Watching wars live, via satellite
You carry a gun but no smoking inside
Escape disease yet I could get shot tonight
You
Shoot
You
Lose
The time has come and you're all alone
And you know you're not dreaming
It's heaven's door, you're ringing on the bell
Will they let you in, or you going to hell?
I'll take a war, I'll take mine with fries
Medium rare, wash a coke down with ice
Swallow it down no time to digest
What do you know, I'm feeling hungry again
You
Shoot
You
Loose
The time has come and you're all alone
And you know you're not dreaming
It's heaven's door, you're ringing on the bell
Will they let you in, or you going to hell?
03 It Means Nothing (03:48)
Did we lose ourselves again?
Did we take in what’s been said?
Did we take the time to be,
all the things we said we’d be?
So we bury hopes in sand
And my future’s in my hands
It means nothing
It means nothing
You can find yourself apart
But you leave in which one you want
Cause they love you all the same
They just go by different names
Did you fly your flag today?
Are you proud or just ashamed?
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
The sun sets in the sky
You’re the apple of my eye
If the bomb goes off again
Blows my brain around the train
And I hope that I’m with you
Cause I wouldn’t know what to do
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
It means nothing
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
If I haven’t got you
06 Stone (04:17)
I don't know why I let you go
You said you'd wait I said I'd hope you would
We talked 'til late until we walked away
What's meant to be will be the same
And I feel like stone
Yes I feel ice cold
I pick myself up from the ground
Sick to death of lying down
And now I have to find you once again
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
Driving round and round until its dawn
To look for you in rooms we used to go
I held you back, I had to set you free
But now I know what's meant to be
And I feel like stone
Yes I feel ice cold
I pick myself up from the ground
Sick to death of lying down
And now I have to find you once again
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
But I don't know where you are now
07 My Friends (03:35)
Stop tap drink back eye on you
You're out to find that something new
Am i the fly you want trapped in your web
I've seen that look a thousand times
Your innocence can make you blind
I can show you round a block or two
Let me introduce you to my friends
Let me buy you things, let me in your head
Let us fly away let this never end
My friend
My friend
Kick back think back look at you
You got the look you got the shoes
I'd like to fill your world and be with you
Your lust for life just turns me on
A star above that's shining on
Think i'd like to see the world like you
Let me introduce you to my friends
Let me buy you things, let me in your head
Let us fly away let this never end
My friend
My friend
Let me introduce you to my friends
Let me buy you things, let me in your head
Let us fly away let this never end
My friend
My friend
10 Lady Luck (03:45)
We're falling now, can't make it stop
Our arms are open for the thing we want
But what we want just can't have
What could've been but the timing's bad
Don't cry cry baby now
You're my my Lady Luck
We follow the signs to make us meet
Into the night, to places no-one sees
I never learned from looking back
You picked me up from off my back
But now it seems our time has passed
Don't cry cry baby now
You're my my Lady Luck
You picked me up right off my back
I'd fallen down you brought me up
We shared the night until the morning comes to take us back
Away to where
We chose to belong
And maybe we're wrong, but we gotta be strong
There's too much to lose
And maybe we're fools, who knows? Who knows? Who knows?
Who knows? Who knows?
We follow the signs to make us meet
Into the night, to places no-one sees
11 Crush (03:56)
We swapped our lines late last night then
We started talking truths til noon
Yeah noon
We fantasize of kidnap tie me up and tease me in your boots
Yeah you
I like to feel the crush it makes me feel alive
To have you in my life, than not it just feels right
And when the sun goes down the moonlight paints the night
That's when the sleeping dog awakes and comes alive
I like to fight for the right to light up a cigarette for you
Boo hoo
Although the timing's not right, my head spins around and round for you
Yeah you
I like to feel the crush it makes me feel alive
To have you in my life, than not it just feels right
And when the sun goes down the moonlight paints the night
That's when the sleeping dog awakes and comes alive
Come back now
Come back now
Come back and stay
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
It's alright, it's alright it makes me feel alive
To have you in my life, than not it just feels right
I'm alive
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"Pass The Buck è un pezzo che in sede live spaccherà il culo a molti."
"Daisy Lane, semplicemente capolavoro, canzone che regala cascate di emozioni, intima e avvolgente."
