A pochi anni di distanza dal loro capolavoro 'Costello Music', torna il frizzante trio di Glasgow, che decide di assumersi tutta la responsabilità per il loro nuovo CD, registrando senza un produttore.
Allora non resta che inserire 'Here We Stand' nello stereo e ascoltare:
la canzone d'apertura, si sa, non deve deludere, e così si rimane piacevolmente colpiti durante l'ascolto di 'My friend Jhon', che nulla ha da perdere dalle divertenti e bellissime 'Henrietta' o 'Chelsea Dagger' di 'Costello Music'.
Poi, immediatamente, un ben fatta 'A heady Tale' introduce lentamente (dura circa 5minuti) a quello che si preannuncia un CD più melodioso e con accordi più studiati rispetto alla loro prima creazione.
E così con 'Mistress Mabel', 'Look Out sunshine', 'Stragglers Moon', 'Baby Doll' 'Acid Jazz Singer', 'Lupe Brown' e la stupenda ballata di chiusura 'Milk and Money', i The Fratellis ci presentano un disco molto più melodioso del precedente. I brani sopra citatati portano parecchia gioia, niente noia. Forse qualcuno potrà rimanere deluso, aspettandosi dal trio qualcosa di più rockeggiante e veloce. Ma i sopracitati sono davvero ben fatti e piacevoli. A interrompere l'andamento del disco troviamo tracce d'obbligo per loro, come 'Shameless', e 'Tell Me A Lie' (inserita in Fifa2009), che spezzano l'andamento relativamente pacato e calmo del disco con una carica di energia non solo al primo ascolto.
Un disco nel complesso ben fatto, forse non paragonabile a "Costello Music", dove però aveva contribuito l'effetto sopresa. A mio parere i The Fratellis avranno molto da dirci anche in futuro, considerando che fanno musica solo da 3 anni, il trio spero avrà ancora molto da insegnare a un Europa che ormai conosce solamente fenomeni commerciali come Tokio Hotel e Lady Gaga.
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06 Mistress Mabel (04:27)
1, 2, 3, Owww
Mistress Mabel, you're seriously wrong,
Clears my table, bang and then she's gone,
Takes a liberty if you let her,
Yes she's old but she should know better,
Oh dear Mabel please don't put me on,
Mistress Mabel, all the kids agree,
You're unstable, curious and free,
Wine em down, and then keep em kickin',
Sunken eyed and all panic stricken'
Oh Dear Mabel it still worries me.
Well and like rat bag, so they told her,
Last nights name tag, across her shoulder.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this willful fable
Tell me Mabel.
Mistress Mabel, won't you marry me?
I'm unable to take it seriously
I'll be good, and you'll be a minute
I wish you would, or I'll drop you in it.
Oh dear Mabel wont you marry me?
And like rat bag, so they told her,
Last nights name tag, across her shoulder.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this wealthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this wealthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this filthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me Mabel.
10 Acid Jazz Singer (04:21)
Well let me tell you something, let me tell you so
This could be the one thing that you really need to know
You got to stop once in a while and shake off that face of yours
Cause nothing comes easy no it just comes free
You could sing it better if you'd sing it for me, oh sister
Well cannot claim this advice as my own
I learned it in the gutter one night coming home
She said Don't you look ridiculous I checked her out meticulously
And though I would've stopped to argue but my teeth were broke
I said I'd love to contradict you but my life's a joke, oh sister
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on
Well I'm a lucky man and maybe so is she
And maybe this is just the way it has to be
It's all based on speculation seems a crazy occupation to me
And though I didn't much believe her I was bound to call
I really didn't want to miss a single thing at all, oh sister
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a singer
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer
I haven't seen her lately man I have to ring her
Put your hands together for the Acid jazz singer, come on
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Altre recensioni
Di Keith
"Here We Stand è il seguito ideale di Costello Music, un'altra raccolta di pezzi freschi graziati da una facilità di scrittura."
"I tre rockettari sanno bene come si confezionano canzoni irresistibili, e questo è molto più di quanto sappiano fare altre band più osannate."
Di walrus
Con l'ascolto viene la sensazione di trovarsi in un pub di Glasgow a ballare e sbronzarsi.
"Il disco è davvero piacevole e scorre via in una tracklist di potenziali singoli."
