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Da più di quattro anni The Distillers percorrono il cammino del punk-rock, ed ora questa band nella sua terza incarnazione esce con CORAL FANG, un lavoro che innanzi tutto conferma una certezza assoluta: la cantante Brody Dalle ha un talento immenso! Questa cantante australiana dai polmoni d'acciaio è l'unica compositrice della band e anche l'unica rimasta del nucleo originario. "She's the boss". Brody è forse la rock-woman più esplosiva del momento. Dopo venticinque anni vissuti intensamente ha preso in mano le redini del suo destino rompendo con il passato: ha firmato per una major (Warner), ha divorziato dal marito Tim Amstrong dei Rancid e si è legata pubblicamente con Josh Homme dei QOTSA.
Una rivoluzione personale, seguita da questa rinascita discografica. La sua musica è comunque rimasta tenacemente punk, almeno per quanto riguarda i tre primi pezzi del nuovo album: l'iniziale Drain The Blood, la californiana Dismantle Me, e l'irresistibile Die On A Rope. Però, a partire dal quarto pezzo, la rotta delle sonorità vira leggermente su frequenze più soniche: la sbalorditiva The Gallon Is God sarà una sorpresa per i fan più radicali che sentiranno echeggiare riverberi alla Sonic Youth e PJ Harvey, sotto forma di una Brody intensa, feroce e matura.
La title track che segue riassesta i timpani su frenetici giri punk-hardcore, per poi accedere ad un'altra sorpresa, The Hunger: dopo un intro acustico scatta un impressionante urlo liberatorio, chitarroni pesanti, e poi giù melodia, e ancora melodia… grunge? Poi di nuovo un urlo disumano, chitarroni, batteria in primo piano, e di nuovo quella melodia di stampo Nirvana… wow!
In questo disco Brody ha messo in gioco alcuni capisaldi della musica anni '90 con una maestria tale da mettere in ombra alcune colleghe più esperte. Dimostrazione? Ascoltare Hall Of Mirrors, un consistente brano che fa letteralmente impallidire la Courtney Love dei tempi migliori (alla quale Brody è stata sempre comparata). Scioltezza, rock'n'roll, una voce acre e dinamica: Hole-sound, sì, ma interpretato molto, molto meglio. Il resto dell'album si mantiene tonico e potente. Cito ancora la catartica Death Sex, ammiccante titolo per un pezzo di quasi tredici minuti che alterna un bestiale tiro speed-punk a spettrali free-divagazioni soniche.
La voce e la chitarra di Brody sono accompagnate da una band suprema (l'eccelso batterista Andy Granelli, il bassista Ryan Sinn e il "new entry" Tony Bradley alla seconda chitarra), e si sono avvalse di una produzione più che degna (Gil Norton), nonché di una registrazione favolosa (Jon Dunne, e mastering di Howie Weinberg). La grafica di copertina ad opera di Tim Presley è dissacrante quanto basta… che dire di più?
...che il futuro del rock è Donna.
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01 Drain the Blood (03:08)
I'm living on shattered faith
The kind that likes to restrict your breath
Never been a better time than this
Suffocate on eternal bliss
In a city
That swells with so much hate
You seem to rise above
And take its place
The heart pumps until it dies
Drain the blood, the heart is wise
All my friends are murder
All my bones no marrows in
All these fiends want teenage meat
All my friends are murderers
Away
I never met a pearl quite like you
Who could shimmer and rot at the same time through
There's never been a better time than this
Bite the hand of the frost bitten emenence
All my friends are murder
Hey, all my bones no marrows in
All these fiends want teenage meat
All my friends are murderers
Away, away, away
Woah, woah, woah, woah
I'm alive in uterine
A star in the dark, a new day has dawned
Open up and let it flow
I'll make it yours so here we go
All my friends are murder
Hey, all my bones no marrows in
All these fiends want teenage meat
All my friends are murderers
Away hes gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away
He's gone away, away
02 Dismantle Me (02:26)
I fancy you
But I've been destitute
And all I know dissolved
I could never re-undo you
I will always say it's so
I will always speak the truth
Descend into a noose
I Could never re-undo you
I want to bury you
I want to bury you
Vultures circle around
Feathers float, wings flap, beats pound
And though my hearts exposed
I could never re-undo you
I will always bleed the truth
I will always speak
And know I was sent to cut you lose
I will never re-undo you
I want to bury you
I want to bury you
I want to bury you
I want to bury you
Dismantle Me
Yeah Dismantle Me
Yeah Dismantle Me
It’s warm and humid on Swanson Street
And the air is filled with electricity
And the sky is deeper than a dream
And the sky is deeper than aaaahhhh!
Dismantle Me
Yeah Dismantle Me
Yeah Dismantle Me
And the sky is deeper than a dream
And the sky is deeper than a dream
03 Die on a Rope (02:39)
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?
I wish that you didn't love me no more, I've been dead for years,
I wish that you didn't own me no more, I've been here before.
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die? No, I won't!
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?
I want to draw the blood from your neck, spill the lies in your bed.
I will give you a holy white rose, cut the tongue from your head.
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die? No, I won't!
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die on a rope?
Tell me something, tell me stupid, will I die, will I die?
I belong to a line of red scent, teach the heart to reflect.
The wound is wise for primal black eyes, there's a scarlet letter in my chest.
04 The Gallow Is God (04:35)
Oh how my heart it sings suicide,
Oh how my gallow sinks of black dye.
Oh how my death march brings a tear to your eye,
Oh how the noose it swings when you die.
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
Oh how my heart it splits when you dumb my eyes,
Oh how my gallow sinks of red dye.
Oh how the noose it smiles when you lie,
Oh how my womb it licks when you dig deep inside.
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
Do you do it,oh yeah do you feel it,oh yeah do you sell it,oh yeah,do you need it,oh yeah
In the sun the willows give you shade
how they hang like a guillotine blade in the sun.
In the sun the willows give you shade
how they hang like a guillotine blade in the sun,
like a blade.
In the sun, like a blade.
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
What a surprise, what is the price, what is the price, what is the price?
05 Coral Fang (02:09)
It's come take from the ripe
It feels so still I could just die just die
It's come to reach up inside
Oh how the blood stains well on white
Ooh the coral fang sinking in to make you well
Ooh the coral fang sinking in to make you ill
It's come to rape what you hide
It fills the years with reprise, disgust, disguise
i'll burn my own funeral pyre
And from your mouth I will rise out rise out
Ooh the coral fang sinking in to make you well
Ooh the coral fang sinking in to make you ill
When the fang sinks down in
Makes your eyes white and roll right into him
When the coral shaves the skin
Disease is cheap scars are polished clean
Ooh the coral fang sinking in to make you well
Ooh the coral fang sinking to take at will
06 The Hunger (05:27)
Holy eyes, I never knew I'd beg down at your feet
Hold on tight, I never knew I'd know much more than this
Open sky, the wave of pain, the scent of you is bliss
Hungry eyes, they stare at me.. I know, I know..
Don't go...
Summertime, the taste of saint secretes and perfume mist
console the mind, I take it in with lips of pink I kiss
Lonely sky, the more you take the more that I give in
Holy eyes, I never knew, I know, I know..
Don't go...
Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got
I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost, blood lost, blood loss.
Don't go...
Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got
I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost
Hold onto the memory, it's all you've got
I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost, blood lost, blood loss.
Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah...yeah, yeah, uhhh, uhh, uhh, uhh, uhh ,uhh, uhh, yeah, uhh, ohh, ohhhhh, yeah
07 Hall of Mirrors (03:49)
I come down like a hurricane sucked up inside
Now I spit out the suffer, yeah
You say you want a revelation,
Revel in this my lover
You’re free at liberty is this what you want
Sometimes I wonder…
[Chorus 1]
There’s a highway to, to the edge yeah
Once a night you will drive yourself there
At the end of the road you will find the answer
At the end of the road you will drink abyss
I come down like a bloody rain cuts up flesh sky,
Pulse beating under, yeah
Meat petals bloom in a bone garden
Ain’t no god, no ghost gonna save you now
I sell souls at the side of the road
Would you like to take a number?
[Chorus 2]
There’s a highway to, to the edge, yeah
Once a night you will drive yourself there
At the end of the road you will find the answer
At the end of the road you will drink the fear
Take your time, come on, get what you come for don't
Waste my time, come on, get what you come for don't
Waste my time, come on, get what you come for don't
Waste my time, come on, get what you come for
[Chorus 3]
There’s a highway to, to the edge, yeah
Once a night you will drive yourself there
At the end of the road you will find the answer
At the end of the road you will drink abyss
I watched you burn in the eye of my sun, in the eye of my sun yeah yeah
I fucked you in, in the eye of my sun, in the eye of my sun yeah yeah
[x2]
08 Beat Your Heart Out (02:48)
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
I know...
let alone to rest alone
Yeah..You’re making me
I had to run the damage is done
give it up yeah , give it up yeah
Theres nothing left take the rest
You’re draining me
I set it light it burns so bright
Stab it out yeah
Stab it out yeah
You make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
I know, yeah I know, yeah I know
I had to run the damage is done
give it up yeah, give it up yeah
I had to go
It got out of control
Yeah You’re breaking me
There’s nothing left so take the rest
Stab it out yeah
Stab it out yeah
I set it light
It burns so bright
Yeah..You’re draining me
You make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
I know, yeah I know, that it’s true
Let alone to rest alone (ohhhhhhhhh)
Let alone to rest alone (ohhhhhhhhh)
Let alone to rest alone (ohhhhhhhhh)
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhhh
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
There’s nothing left so take the rest
There’s nothing left so take the rest
There’s nothing left so take the rest
There’s nothing left so take the rest
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Baby you make my heart beat faster
Let alone
09 Love Is Paranoid (02:07)
I step right off the edge
Let the blood rush to my head
I’m going down to where the lucky ones have bled
I lift the veil up to reveal A fascination
And if you crave it
Then you know that you are injured
And I’m holding on
And I’m holding on
For what you do to me
oh Baby there’s no measure
I've taken everything and
Now I want to give it
I left the lights on so you stumble in devotion
So easy
So easy
Its left unspoken
And I’m holding on
And I’m holding on
And I’m holding on
And I’m holding on
I’ve come to realize that you're the only thing I...
I’m falling all the way
I’m falling all the way
I’ve come to realize you're the only thing I want now
I’m fallen all the way in
I’m fallen all the way in
I’m fallen all the way in
I’m fallen
I’m fallen all the way in
I’m fallen all the way in
I’ve fallen all the way in
I’ve fallen all the way in
I’ve fallen all the way in
I’ve fallen all the way in
10 For Tonight You're Only Here to Know (03:18)
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh,
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh.
just tonight I would, I would lay here for you
just tonight I would, I would sink here for you
just tonight I would, I would slum here for you
just tonight I would, I would die.
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh,
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh.
where am, am I, in the hallway small,
theres a red light, and a black sore.
away I say, away I say, away I say, away.
you'll follow me till the end, till the end,
you'll swallow me till there is nothing left
you'll follow me till the end, till the end,
you'll swallow me till there's nothing left.
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh,
I really want you to sigh,
never in tune just sigh
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Altre recensioni
Di Sanjuro
Questi Distillers sono l'ennesima truffa che le major ed Mtv ci propinano.
Lanciare sul mercato nel 2004 pezzi che sarebbero puzzati di vecchio già 15 anni fa.
Di ashanti
La differenza è questa: i Distillers rappresentano una qualche forma di ribellione, le Hole forse una rivoluzione.
Tipico punk talvolta con qualche concessione al versante più commerciale di questo stesso genere, comunque bellissima.
