Chi si è avvicinato ai The Knife grazie a "Silent Shout" non può che rimanere molto confuso ascoltando il lavoro precedente, "Deep Cuts". Ormai ce ne sono diversi di gruppi musicali o singoli musicisti che sono per la filosofia di non ripetersi mai. I primi che mi saltano in mente or ora sono i Daft Punk, sempre per rimanere in quel campo enorme che è l'elettronica. Questo può fare più o meno piacere, il giocare sempre in nuovi generi e sottogeneri, dipende dal singolo, però è senza ombra di dubbio il fatto che bisogna dare merito a questi signori che decidono di mettersi in gioco ad ogni nuovo album.
Detto questo, chi si avvicina a "Deep Cuts" aspettandosi atmosfere fredde e cupe, propriamente nordiche, può rimanere deluso. Questo album, per molti aspetti, si può dire che è l'opposto di quelle atmosfere che si trovano nel già citato ultimo lavoro datato 2006. A partire dalla voce di Karin Dreijer. In molte tracce, la voce della cantante è quasi da bambina strafottente, viziata, che prende in giro; un timbro lontanissimo da quello presente nel singolo dei Royksoop "What Else Is There?" (per chi non lo sapesse: il singolo dei Royksoop è cantanto appunto da Karin Dreijer) che poi sarà presente in tutto "Silent Shout".
L'album inizia alla grande con "Heartbeats", un gran bel pezzo che volente o nolente ti fa battere il piede a tempo, testimonianza che i due fratelli hanno dei veri colpi di genio. Qualcuno conoscerà questa canzone nella versione con chitarra acustica di Josè Gonzales. Anche il video (altro campo importante per i The Knife) è un bel pezzo, consigliata la visione. Dopo questo inizio piacevole e immediato, si cambia totalmente e si cala un po' di qualità con le successive canzoni: "Girl's Night Out" e "Pass This On". "One For You" presenta atmosfere che saranno presenti nel disco successivo, qui Karin ha una voce monotona, bassa. Una sorta di breve intermezzo, cantanto o "recitato" dalla voce completamente distorta di Olof, "spezza" il disco. Dopo questa pausa, l'inizio di "Listen Now" prende l'ascoltatore di nuovo di sorpresa, con la sua base martellante che parte immediata; Karin qua ritorna una bambina viziata che gioca che viene zittita dalla solita voce cavernicola del fratello che canta la ninna nanna "She's Having A Baby". Uno dei pochi momenti di relax in questo disco. Segue "You Take My Breath Away" che rimette in moto il disco e lo riavvicina ad una possibile sala da ballo. "Rock Classic" è la canzone più lunga: una base minimal, la voce di Karin bassa e sensuale che si alza di tono nella seconda metà della canzone, giocando con toni alti e bassi per poi tornare come ad inizio traccia nell' ultimo minuto. Un bel pezzo, uno dei migliori del disco. Ora qua viene il bello, la canzone che più mi diverte e mi fa ridere, ovvero "Is It Medicine"; e qui dire che viene voglia di saltare è poco. Questa canzone, se si mette a volume alto come è giusto che sia, è pura adrenalina. "Is it medicine, is it medicine, is it medicine or social skills" Il video musicale che hanno fatto è meraviglioso, anche questo da consigliare. Dopo si trova "You Make Me Like Charity" e sembra quasi di ascoltare un ragazzo e una ragazza che parlano fra di loro; "Got 2 Let U", che credo si possa intuire già da come è scritto il titolo, sembra quasi un puro gioco: voci buffe, distorte grazie alla tecnologia e semplicemente caricate dai due svedesi, è quasi la canzone stessa che dice: "Non prendermi sul serio". "Behind The Bushes" è solo musica. Mancano le voci, i suoni elettronici, le distorsioni: gli archi la fanno da padrone in questa traccia, seguiti da flauti; il tutto dona un'atmosfera quasi medioevale oserei dire. Una piccola perla improvvisa, l'ultima cosa che ti aspetteresti di trovare in un album del genere. Il disco si chiude con Olof che fa da protagonista in neanche un minuto di canzone.
"Deep Cuts" sembra quasi un gioco: si possono trovare vari registri, si salta da una canzone adrenalica ad una strumentale, voci buffe e altre serie e basse, altre ancora sensuali. Difficile possa annoiare un disco del genere, al primo ascolto tutto è una continua sorpresa; un lavoro fatto con cura e studiato al dettaglio, canzoni ben bilanciate che tengono sempre viva l' attenzione di chi è veramente disposto ad ascoltare. La noia con questo disco è lontana.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Heartbeats (03:51)
One night to be confused
One night to speed up truth
We had a promise made
Four hands and then away
Both under influence
We had divine sense
To know what to say
Mind is a razor blade
To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough for me
One night of magic rush
The start: a simple touch
One night to push and scream
And then relief
Ten days of perfect tunes
The colors red and blue
We had a promise made
We were in love
To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough for me
To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough for me
And you
You knew the hand of a devil
And you
Kept us awake with wolves teeth
Sharing different heartbeats in one night
To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough for me
To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough
02 Girls' Night Out (03:38)
We were looking for a room
We were looking for a hotel
We were in between
We were a few chosen
Somewhere to fit in
Something that's fitting
After one day it started itching
And we rubbed until it was bleeding
And we laughed at the moonlight far beyond
And we ran through the moonlight far beyond
We were looking for something to blow up
We were looking for something to follow
We had one way out
We had some hours left
We were so close
We knew we were chosen
We aimed for high speed
And for someone who could catch me
And we laughed at the moonlight far beyond
And we ran through the moonlight far beyond
We were looking for a room
We were looking for something to blow up
We knew we were chosen
And we laughed at the moonlight far beyond
And we ran through the moonlight far beyond
(repeat)
03 Pass This On (03:48)
I'm in love with your brother
What's his name
I thought I'd come by
to see him again
when you to dance
oh what a dance
when you to love
oh what a love
does he mention my achelove
or is he more in to young girls with dyed black hair
I'm in love with your brother
I'd thought I'd come by
I'm in love with your brother
Yes I am
but maybe I
shouldn't ask for his name
and you dance
oh what a dance
And you laughed
oh what a laugh
Does he know what I do and
you'll pass this on, won't you and?
If I asked him once what would he say
Is he willing,
can he play?
He wasn't really looking for some more of it
found company on the dancefloor and
Does he know what I do and
you'll pass this on, won't you and?
Does he know what I do and,
you'll pass this on, won't you?
And if I ask him once,
what would he say?
is he willing, can he play?
04 One for You (03:48)
Rumous telling me you are mourning
and you haven't slept for several days.
You've been turning inside out looking for reasons
and your black sorry eyes made you pale.
And you couldn't catch them
you couldn't be there.
You couldn't help them at all,
and it was cold.
If we say that there is something above the mountains
if we say that there is something we can't see.
Promise you willl never belive me
cause I guess I'm just trying to make it easy
And you couldn't catch them
you couldn't be there.
You couldn't help them at all,
and it was cold.
Everybody was laughing when they found us
one for you and one for me.
Then they let us go to hunt us down again
and still you refuse to see
why everything has to stay ugly
Rumous telling me you are mourning
and you haven't slept for several days.
You've been turning inside out looking for reasons
and your black sorry eyes made you pale.
05 The Cop (00:43)
I am a cop, shut up
I piss in your mouth
I am a cop, shut up
I shoot you in your face you Motherfucker
I piss in your mouth hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha
I am a cop, shut up or I'll shoot you,
I shoot you right on the spot you Motherfucking shit
06 Listen Now (02:50)
Listen now
I am afraid of everything
When you told me I was special
It was the happiest moment for a long long time
Listen now
I keep forgetting your name
When you laid down on the kitchen floor
It was the happiest moment for a long long time
We seek new seed now
Some revolutionary
and you will never get a hold
We seek and we will find
reason to stay alive
The price has never been this low
Listen now
I was afraid of everything
Then I straightened my head up
It was the happiest moment for a long long time
We seek new seed now
Some revolutionary
and you will never get a hold
We seek and we will find
reason to stay alive
The price has never been this low
08 You Take My Breath Away (04:27)
We are the people who's come here to play
I don't like it easy
I don't like the straight way
We're in the middle of something
We're here to stay
And we raise our heads for the colour red
I'm in the first row on your show, in the first row
on the First Floor Power show
Your vibrato's like vulnerable leaves,
You do it crazy, that's how you talk to me
We are the people who's come here to play
I don't like it easy
I don't like the straight way
We're in the middle of something
We're here to stay
And we raise our heads for the colour red
I heard you for the first time on the radio
When I was going somewhere in a car
You touched my heart, like a knife that's very sharp
Or like a bird [I was thinking about birds], you just set free
That's just like me, when I hear you speak
We are the people who's come here to play
I don't like it easy
I don't like the straight way
We're in the middle of something
We're here to stay
And we raise our heads for the colour red
I like vanilla and I like sex
I ride the pony that I like best
I knew I that there was something I missed
I was fifteen when I first got kissed,
Before I knew about the equality way
I wanted to get laid to "Take My Breath Away"
We are the people who's come here to play
I don't like it easy
I don't like the straight way
We're in the middle of something
We're here to stay
And we raise our heads for the colour red
We are the people who's come here to play
I don't like it easy
I don't like the straight way
We're in the middle of something
We're here to stay
And we raise our heads for the colour red
10 Is It Medicine (02:22)
No more tears and you'll be fine
I stay here all night
And when I've stayed all night
We go out in the morning light
And then you try to live the day
I don't know how, but I know what to say
Is it medicine or social skill
Don't have the answer and nobody will
You go screaming on without a word
Being sad is a fulltime work
And now the day has come to an end
And then you start to cry again
Is it medicine?
Is it medicine, is it medicine or social skill?
Is it medicine, is it medicine, is it medicine or social skill?
11 You Make Me Like Charity (03:05)
You try to feel but you can't wake up
you try to touch but you can't wake up
you're holding eyes and you don't wake up
increase the size and you don't wake up
I do it backwards but I don't wake up
try to reverse but I don't wake up
I sit astride but I still don't wake up
more than a second
when reading the newspaper
I felt the war
I felt her exposed position
I saw myself in the picture
and I
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
you make me like charity
instead of paying enough taxes
12 Got 2 Let U (03:59)
Fuu!
I got to got to let you down
But in an hour I will change my mind.
I got to got to let you down
But in an hour I will change my mind.
-
It is like magic to me
Making mistakes and be forgiven
easily.
It is like magic to me
Making mistakes and be forgiven
easily (easily).
Fuu!
I know she lets me down
but just for a short while then
she changes her mind.
I know she lets me down
but just for a short while then
she changes her mind.
She does it all the time
Making mistakes and then I
ease her mind.
She does it all the time
But she's so pretty and I
don't mind
-
Verse 1.
..got to let you down, got to let you down.
I got to let you down, got to let you down.
Verse 2.
..she does it all the time
Making mistakes and then I
ease her mind.
She does it all the time
but she's so pretty and I
don't mind.
she does it all the time
Making mistakes and I
ease her mind
She does it all the time
but she's so pretty and I
don't mind.
14 Hangin' Out (00:58)
I keep my dick hangin' out of my pants
so I can point out what I want.
I was chosen by standard procedures
and I'll assure you I don't mind.
I'm the head over small buissness
employing old male friends of my kind.
They kepp their dick hangin' out of their pants
so they can point out what they want.
I keep my dick hangin' out of my,
n�e, vi stoppar d�r.
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