Non posso di certo venirvi a raccontare che un pizzico, persino qualcosa di più..., di delusione non si sia materializzata dentro di me nel momento in cui, per la prima volta, ho ascoltato il nuovo disco di The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Avevo già avuto modo di leggere recensioni (discordanti) di alcuni colleghi e avevo parlato con persone (affidabili) che lo avevano ascoltato e da questa carrellata di opinioni non mi ero fatto un'idea circa il valore del lavoro (quella rimane personale, ci mancherebbe), però avevo capito che The Dillinger Escape Plan avevano tentato il colpo grosso, quello che se ti va bene ti porta in alto, non solo come vendite, ma per meriti acquisiti. Se ti va bene... D'altronde il curriculum vitae è tale da far impallidire il 90% dei gruppi apparsi negli ultimi dieci anni, quindi era logico che cercassero di entrare nella storia in maniera definitiva. E volendo osservare la situazione da un punto di vista distaccato e non tenendo in alcuna considerazione l'ammirazione con cui li ho seguiti nel corso della carriera, bisogna ammettere che le idee costitutive di "Ire Works" potevano essere quelle giuste per giungere alla modellazione di una sintesi evolutiva, ipoteticamente perfetta, di ciò che il suono, al di là dei generi, ha saputo produrre proprio nel corso dell'ultimo decennio.
Gli elementi c'erano tutti, ma per la prima volta da quando esistono The Dillinger Escape Plan non sono stati in grado di applicarli e coagularli come una varietà così rischiosa di materia trattata avrebbe richiesto. Perché il metal (che già è multi contaminato e si porta appresso l'hardcore, per come lo intendono), che incontra strutture musicali non metalliche (dire avant, sarebbe dare loro un premio che non meritano), che incorpora un sound elettronico di derivazione glitch, che poi sceglie di aggiungere violino, violoncello, tromba, orchestrazioni, rock, jazz, una palese orecchiabilità e altro ancora deve partire dall'assunto che ha una probabilità molto alta di fallire. E The Dillinger Escape Plan sono andati vicini al fallimento, non essendo riusciti a rendere effettivamente concreto tutto ciò e non avendo dato ad esso un senso compiuto. Non per nulla quando l'album termina si rimane come in attesa che accada qualcos'altro, perché è palese che non hanno espresso appieno l'immenso potenziale.
Rinunciando alle parti di "esplosione sonora massiccia" e di "pericolosità intrinseca" si sono assunti una responsabilità che si è ritorta contro. Tanti ingredienti, ma assai statici se presi singolarmente, e che finiscono per risultare uno specchietto per le allodole, perché dei vari generi mescolati sapete cosa rimane? Il pop. E questo svela l'essenza di The Dillinger Escape Plan nel 2007 (con una line up in cui sopravvive solo Ben Weinman della formazione originaria), quella di voler comporre un disco pop robusto e contaminato, magari come potrebbe intenderlo un Mike Patton intento a mescolare Faith No More e Fantômas, ma pur sempre pop e anche un pò patinato. Il che non è un male, però è una constatazione che va esplicitata. Certo, "Ire Works" deve essere assorbito ripetutamente per coglierne le diverse sfumature, però è altrettanto evidente che ha molte ombre e mette in luce una band che ha commesso l'errore primario di considerarsi onnipotente.
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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 Divodark
Secondo il mio modesto parere l'album ha tutto. È aggressivo e dolce, schizofrenico e melodico.
Per il sottoscritto è una delle migliori uscite del 2007. Semplicemente strepitosi.
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!
