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I più storceranno il naso quando il 13 novembre avranno l'opportunità di ascoltare questo nuovissimo lavoro dei Dillinger Escape Plan rilasciato a 3 anni di distanza dal buon seppur non ottimo "Miss Machine".
Lasciando da parte l'esperimento (piuttosto commerciale... mi duole ammetterlo...) di "Plagiarism", un'esclusiva solo per i fruitori di i-tunes contente varie cover e qualche chicca live, "Ire Works" (così che si chiama il nuovo disco) vedrà la luce, come già detto, il 13 novembre ancora sotto Relapse Records, nonostante gli ultimi disguidi.
Come già accennato molti, probabilmente moltissimi fan della band non ameranno questo nuovo disco magari troppo melodico e/o troppo elettronico ma credo sia una naturale evoluzione sia del lavoro svolto con quel geniaccio di Patton sia con "Plagiarism" appunto dove Greg Puciato e soci hanno potuto constatare di saper suonare anche musica meno aggressiva e meno rabbiosa e il muscoloso singer si è dilettato in falsetti dai risultati piuttosto imbarazzanti (vedesi la cover del pezzo di Justin Timberlake di cui non ricordo neanche il nome a dir la verità...).
Secondo il mio modesto parere l'album ha tutto. E' aggressivo e dolce, schizofrenico e melodico. Si inizia subito sulla scia di "Calculating Infinity"... "Fix Your Face" non a caso è il primo singolo che vede la partecipazione nientepopodimeno che di Dimitri Minakasis, cantante degli esordi dei DEP. Segue un'altra mazzata sui denti qual è "Lurch" e poi ecco la prima sorpresa: una canzone cantata perlopiù in falsetto (...Plagiarism docet), senza neanche un'urletto... stiamo parlando di "Black Bubblegum". Subito dopo "Sick On Sunday", pezzo elettronico e "rumoroso" che verso i tre quarti di canzone fa spazio alla voce (ancora in falsetto,si...) di Puciato.
Poi, a mio avviso, il meglio dell'album. Il trio "When Acting as a Particle", "Nong Eye Gong" e "When Actins as a Wave", della durata ciascuna di pocopiù di un minuto sono rispettivamente, una strumentale molto elettronica, una perla completamente urlata che riprende lo stesso ritmo ma in puro Dillinger Escape Plan style e un'altra strumentale molto ben suonata (questa volta non elettronica...). Dopo "82588", il pezzo migliore (prossimo singolo?) dell'intero lavoro è "Milk Lizard", che prima ti aggredisce fino allo sfinimento poi ti sorprende con una parte melodica che nel finale diventa quasi emozionante. Veramente bellissima.
Altro giro altra corsa...
"Party Smasher" dura circa un minuto e mezzo, giusto il tempo di ricordarci con chi abbiamo a che fare e poi si giunge a "Dead as History", pezzo abbastanza lungo introdotto da un misto elettronico/spagnoleggiante di due minuti che prende piede poi con la voce del cantante ancora una volta molto melodica... "Horse Hunter" vede la partecipazione di Bret Hinds dei Mastodon... Infine tutto si chiude con "Mouth of Ghosts", anch'essa piuttosto lunga con un intermezzo al pianoforte un po' progressive...
Se tutto ciò sia frutto solo di un'evoluzione naturale oppure no questo non ci è dato saperlo fatto sta che per il sottoscritto è una delle migliori uscite del 2007.
Semplicemente strepitosi.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Fix Your Face (02:41)
You want a vision you can't have / A line that you can't walk / Writhing around on the floor / You won't be aware 'til it's too late / Cause you never look around / You're like a deer in the headlights baby / Queen of delusion you will never learn compassion / Start a fire and you can never put it out / You're burning up in the blaze you started / I want to see you face down / Because I know that you play that part so well / At our wake the casket is open ready for the viewing / But we are still moving / Already we smell of rot / There will be no comeback / No coming back for any one of us now / No way out / Don't you realize there is nowhere you can hide / Where I'm from there is never a rest for the hunted / No way you and I will ever be done / We're never apart / Whatever you're doing / We will always cross your mind / You were young and now you pay the price for her
02 Lurch (02:03)
I don't know your name from my window
Do you lust for fame or forgiveness?
Well I'll give you everything you want
Well I'll give you everything you need
You won't be perfect so best to freeze you in this state go on home you shouldn't be walking around on this day
Now you've stuffed your throat
You've walked on your burial ground
Oh you'll draw the crowd
With honey porcelain skin and crystal baby blues
You picture in my pocket I'm obsessed with you
Oh sweety there's no sense in crying you're above them all
Barricade the door you can hold my hand for comfort when you fall
You wear your skin so fresh
Your smell intoxicates
Little starlet
03 Black Bubblegum (04:04)
Got so much salt from your lies poured into me
You didn't see yourself dead already
So full of with every breath that you breathe
But you forgot that in your fairy tale I'm the wolf
All this attention got you thinking that you're a queen
You think that everything you're doing isn't a dream, long as it feel alright.
I had gotten frozen by the way that you walked, by the love that you gave, by that look on your face
It's a coverup
I know everything
[x2]
You're made for four letter fame
Regret is part of your name
There's something you couldn't tell
It's what you wanted to feel
It's what you're dying to feel
Check out your face on the wall
Like what you see?
I'm sure you see yourself oh so unique
You're just a sucker for the flame of the week
But you forget that in your fairy tale bitch I'm the wolf
All this attention got you thinking you we're a queen
You thought that everything in life you want should be free
Nothing is what you think
I had gotten frozen by the way that you walked, by the love that you gave, by that look on your face
It's a coverup
I know everything
[x2]
You're made for four letter fame
Regret is part of your name
There's something you couldn't tell
It's what you wanted to feel
It's what you're dying to feel
[x5]
04 Sick on Sunday (02:10)
I could never have
Standing here with you
One regret
One Mistake
Nothing we could do
After this is done
You can go your way
Don't forget
This is how
Everything should be
Don't you ever go
06 Nong Eye Gong (01:16)
Now
You laugh forever you laugh
The winner and the best man
Corrupter
Shapeshifter
Your voice is the sound of nothing
Butcher of every artform
Peddler of deceit
Watching the hour hand drag
Destroyer of the past
We're smart enough to say we're sorry
Not smart enough to start again
Dancing in death's illusion
The pride before the fall
Candy for the children
Give it to them all
08 82588 (01:56)
Fallen angel how you've changed
Poison runs through your veins
You were never a saint but now you're a sin
Spoiled rotten from within.
Who clipped your wings so useless?
Cut them yourself?
Chewed off your own?
Good thinking
You were coming apart and I thought I could help you
Through the fever.
Not the first one,
Not the last one,
I'm not sorry for you.
I remember a time when everything that you knew I thought I already knew in my mind
And I thought you knew the same
I know the truth will set you free
Cracked and crazy baby.
09 Milk Lizard (03:55)
My thick tongue hangs down low to the ground,
Licking up the sweat coming off of her heels,
She wants my teeth to wear,
She wants my hell to bear.
Well missy it's a lock for a load,
If you wanna grind hips don't do it alone,
Don't save no dance no not for me,
Just cut me out.
You crept up like a disease looking like a girl only trying to be saved,
Your heart was trying to bleed and you're taking the right road if you're talking to me.
Well you thought you'd tear my skin from bone,
Just cause it was cold and you needed a coat,
Don't tease me just start digging the hole start digging.
Oh you're getting so sleepy tonight,
And you wanna go home but you don't have a ride,
No time just taste won't touch for free,
My salt you're sweet.
You crept up like a disease looking like a girl only trying to be saved,
Your heart was trying to bleed and you're taking the right road if you're talking to me.
And you were there,
And I was every question that never had an answer,
I see right through you,
We never even noticed that,
There always was a reason,
That we were never meant to be left alone.
My thick tongue hangs down low to the ground,
Licking up the sweat coming off of her heels,
She wants my teeth to wear,
She wants my hell to bear.
Well missy it's a lock for a load,
If you wanna grind hips don't do it alone,
Don't save no dance no not for me,
Just cut me out.
And you were there,
And I was every question that never had an answer,
I see right through you,
We never even noticed that,
There always was a reason,
That we were never meant to be left alone.
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending,
This feels like neverending.
10 Party Smasher (01:56)
You are only the faded star of my design
Junked out lost potential and crazy from your questions answered
Walk forth
You're the fulfillment of a fallacy
A creature from a fantasy
Don't think that you ever knew me
Don't you ever see
We are forever entwined stuck in a play we can't get out of
Don't you ever see
Won't you ever see
You and i will never be able to end this
We are forever entwined stuck in a play we can leave
You say someday we can start up again
Without a plan no sign of the pressure
I say you're crazy
I hope you see my face in the mirror
You will never learn
You're forever dead to me
Won't you ever see
Your shadow?
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Altre recensioni
Di RobyMichieletto
The Dillinger Escape Plan sono andati vicini al fallimento, non essendo riusciti a rendere effettivamente concreto tutto ciò.
Il disco mette in luce una band che ha commesso l’errore primario di considerarsi onnipotente.
Di kosay2
Uno dei maggiori capolavori di genialità è la traccia 'Sick on Sunday', un pezzo stratosferico che miscela elettronica e chitarre distorte.
Questo disco è sì sperimentale, ma allo stesso tempo è dannatamente True!
