Per colpa di due canzoni non ho dato il massimo dei voti a questo deflagrante album. La prima traccia parte subito come tutti non si aspettavano. L'impatto iniziale devasta qualsiasi mente che si aspettava un qualsiasi intro ambient. Loro no. Irrompono come niente fosse nella quiete che avevamo in testa, e ciò che colpisce di più di quest'album è che l'impatto riescono a mantenerlo per tutta la durata del cd.
Di solito, a lungo andare, anche il più brutale album stufa, e a volte ci si ipnotizza ad ascoltarlo. Potendosi anche addormentare dolcemente. Invece no. I Dillinger no, questa volta saggiamente utilizzano l'insegnamento avuto tempo addietro da Mike Patton. Aggiungono melodie (il novello Greg Puciato), a volte però in maniera futile e a fine a se stessa, per questo la mia valutazione su questo lavoro scende. Difatti dopo l'uscita dell'album, su Mtv sono usciti i video di queste canzoni che secondo me non appartengono al lavoro dei Dillinger. Non vorrei che la massa si facesse un idea sbagliata sul loro conto. C'è chi accosta i Dillinger con certi Mastodon, ma io mi rifiuto di pensarlo. I Dillinger confronto ai loro contemporanei si son fissati una cosa: basta limiti, niente strutture modulari, distruggere i canoni dell'hardcore e mostrare che anche un gruppo del nostro maledetto genere può affiancarsi e superare come tecnica un Dream Theater qualunque, e come concetto un Mars Volta a caso.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Panasonic Youth (02:27)
We wrote these plans
Took the order the architecture
And followed them to the end
Until the gears ground cold and relentless
There was no remorse
We had none
We kept on with no trace of a regret
There was no remorse
I never saw any blood
No soul for the body
Watch them turn her scab
Covered skin into stone
Like a coal in the sky
Searching for the dawn
For the last time
Bloated with white eyes wide
We've come to an understanding
You lose, I profit
High noon and there ain't no secrets
No more excuses
Now our number's up
Let them lead us by the throat now
Just smile while the rope pulls tighter
Guilty is an understatement
The hourglass is never right side up
And all the time we try to tear the script up
Forgetting all the sour for the sweet
The paragraph has never been so empty
The lifeless test tube
The mother dies with infant in arms
The lifeless test tube, look what she's done
Evolution gave us a clock
That's always winding down
Evolution gave us a clock
That's always winding down
02 Baby's First Coffin (04:02)
Dear God
Protect Us
Come on
Laugh this time
She stares. Forever and then some never again
Polished, Barbwire Smile. Tricks and trade
She done. So cut her again, gut her again
Dear God
Protect us
Come on
Laugh this...
Silence tells us we're damned. Silence tells us we're damned.
Jesus we've gone and done it again. Jimmy’s got a new gun in his hand
Jesus we've gone and done it again. Jimmy’s got a new gun in his hand
You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar.
How could you doubt? He would never find out
You’re being a liar. Let’s start the show. You’re being a liar. I’m ready to go.
You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar. You’re being a liar.
How could you doubt? He would never find out
You’re being a liar. Let’s start the show. You’re being a liar. I’m ready to go.
The emperor is dead. The emperor is dead. Goodbye. Don’t cry.
Die. So long. Revenge. Defend. You know we brought the crowd to us
Staking time into the gust of wind to the face.
Never returning, favors take the prison to the man.
I could promise the world if we could travel through time.
Don’t back out here. Now relax and remember the promise of the sign.
I wish you could see yourself now...you look at me like a child...
The way you glide across the room, it’s drama of seduction.
Let go of it, Repunsel. Let it down.
Aim for the signal then bring it down with a smile....now...
Become the conductor...
The way you slide across the room...how wonderful.
A connection and the last cut still bleeds as good as the first one does.
It’s just the opening seed of a new flame.
I look at you like a child but not at all like you looked at me...
Grace is already dead. Now is the time to go back. Face what you’ve done
You should never said “Yes�?.
Grace is already dead. Now is the time to go back. Face what you’ve done
Grace is already dead.
Grace is already dead. Face the master.
You should never have said “Yes�? when you really mean “No.�?
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Di sa morte niedda
Un vero capolavoro di tecnica e originalità, costituito da 11 tracce per la durata di 40 minuti.
Un disco potente, innovativo, difficile da capire al primo impatto, che però si fa gradire a lungo andare.
