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Raffinate melodie e squisiti giochi vocali, dalle sorgenti malinconiche e foci giulive. Questo è l’efficace Indie/Low-Fi proposto nella raccolta “The Three E.P.’S” dalla Beta Band, ripubblicazione uscita qualche anno addietro su Regal Recordings. Un’infinità di strumenti classici e tradizionali, come il contrabbasso, l’organo, la tromba, l’armonica e il piano, che s’inseriscono armoniosamente e silenziosamente nelle 12 composizioni, spesso anche persuase da suoni registrati all’aria aperta. La voce e i cori riverberati sono il punto forte, l’attrazione più incisiva dei The Beta Band, il resto è un piacevole accompagnamento melodico molto curato, ma sempre essenziale e minimalista. Le tracce migliori sono sicuramente le ultime quattro, quelle del E.P. “Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos” uscito nel 1998: “Push It Out”, con le sue fragranti sperimentazioni vocali (provateci anche voi), è in assoluto uno dei brani più rappresentativi della B.B., come altrettanto belle sono le chitarre acustiche in “It’s Over”, originariamente registrate sul quattro piste casalingo di Stephen Mason, e gli arrangiamenti strumentali in “Dr. Baker”, stigmatizzata ancora una volta dalle liriche intense del cantante S. Mason. Pochi ma buoni i loop e samples di J. McLean. I quattro scozzesi a quanto pare non sono solo geniali musicisti, bensì anche ottimi registi dei propri video, che ormai sono parte integrante dei loro show dal vivo. Uno spettro artistico eccentrico e anticonformista, difficilmente classificabile con un aggettivo solo e, stando al loro insaziabile talento sperimentale (molto diversa e più elettronica la loro ultima pubblicazione “Hot Shots 2”), di transito per nuovi e futuristici suoni che non mancheranno di sorprenderci. Un album che potrebbe essere stato co-prodotto da Badly Drawn Boy e Belle & Sebastian. djd
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01 Dry the Rain (06:07)
This is the definition of my life
Lying in bed in the sunrise
Choking on a vitamin tablet the doctor gave
In the hope of saving me
In the hope of saving me
Mott's in the corner of the room
Junkyard fool with eyes of [glue/gloom/blue]
I asked him time again,
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain,
Take me in and dry the rain,
The rain, the rain, the rain, the rain, my rain now
Dusty brown boots in the corner by the ironing board
Spray-on dust is the greatest thing
Sure is the greatest thing
Since the [light/lie], since the [light/lie]
Mott's in the corner of the room
Junkyard fool with eyes of [glue/gloom/blue]
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
The rain, the rain, the rain, the rain, my rain now
I asked him time again,
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
The rain, the rain, the rain, the rain, my rain now
If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be alright, I will be alright
I will be your light, I will be your light
If there's something inside that you wanna say
You can say it out loud it will be okay
I will be alright, I will be your light
I will be your light, I will be your light
I need love
I need love
05 Inner Meet Me (06:19)
Inner meet me, oh you can't decide [repeated 10 times]
Last night I dreamt somebody fell asleep between my knees
I couldn't help it [?] rejected by a boy called me
Last night I dreamt somebody fell asleep between my knees
I couldn't help it [?] rejected by a boy called me
Last night I dreamt somebody fell asleep between my knees
I couldn't help it [?] rejected by a boy called me
Say what you feel
[help!]
Never dream alone
Never dream alone
09 Push It Out (03:49)
Push it out [repeated approx 70 times]
I wanna beat ya wanna hug ya wanna hold ya to me
Gone to hell thats where I'll be
I'll be fine then come with me
With a double shot of power and he's over me
11 Dr. Baker (04:32)
Dr. Baker phoned me in the morning
He left a note, he's still yawning
Dr. Baker phoned me in the morning
He left a note, she couldn't make it
How did she ever take a lesson outside his head?
Dr. Baker phoned me in the morning
He couldn't understand, he was a busy man
Tried to reach him again, plead with him:
"Please come please come please come
Please come please come please come"
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
overandoverandover
hovering and hovering and hollering home
Dr. Baker phoned me again later that day
Said he cried and he really sounded out of it
His wife was dead and his dog was dead
And misery planned inside his head
I tried to reason with him, tried singing
He said: "No boy you'll never listen"
Try it again
Try it again
Try it againgaingaingaingain
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
See me lost inside
You will see me lost how high
overandoverandover
overandoverandover
I'm a overandoverandover
I'm hoveringhovering oh
I'm a hoveringhovering oh
I'm a hoveringhovering oh
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Di vonhesse
Un disco bello e visionario che suona come un lungo e meraviglioso viaggio psichedelico, noise e post-rock.
Si respira forte una gran voglia di 'divertito cazzeggio' che rende i brani sciolti e spontanei, come in sala prove.
