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Non ci sono parole per descrivere quello che secondo me è e rimarrà il miglior disco dell'anno. Un disco fatto di 14 canzoni che sono una meglio dell'altra. Un disco Pop voi mi direte sarà sempre la solita robaccia. Invece no, perché questo non è il classico disco del genere che ascolti un paio di ore, a volte anche meno, e che poi butti in soffitta o peggio nel cesso. Questo è Pop di livello, musica che diverte, che ti entra in testa ma mai banale nelle melodie e nei testi.
I New Pornographers sono ottimi musicisti e le loro canzoni sono magnificamente accompagnate da cantanti di indubbio talento che anche se non sfoderano voci potenti sanno entusiasmare come poche altre. Il disco è un mix di folk e rock, di un numero imprecisato di strumenti che sembrano trovarsi a meraviglia. Violino, batteria, chitarre acustiche e elettriche con qualche tocco di synth fanno di questo disco un esplosione di felicità che pochi altri dischi hanno saputo comunicarmi.
Posso solo dirvi comperatelo e vedrete che non vi deluderà!
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01 Twin Cinema (02:59)
In home theaters
still projecting
undestructing
a voice from the back of your
double feature
soft and harder
wait
in silence
while planning your attack
shining through the hollow today
thinking maybe heavens away
they've shown this on both screens
they've shown this on both screens
in torn seats are
film leaders
lead the charging
of armies into war, yeah
lead the charge of
twin teachers
false and feature
picture and author, yeah
flipping through the photos they send ya
going to 16th and Valencia
they've shown this on both screens
they've shown this on both screens
team
teeming with things
you can find in the dark
dust in the light
falling through
day after night
falling with you
photos of you
oooooooooohhhh
in soft seats are
stills projecting
no protecting
from voices in the back of ya
double feature
soft and heartland
stone the hope then
they slip ya through the cracks yeah
flipping through the photos they send ya
going to 16 and Valencia
they've shown this on both screens
they've shown this on both screens
they've shown this on both screens
they've shown this on both screens
02 The Bones of an Idol (02:51)
We're lit by a torch
As we kneel in the court of the king
As we sift through the bones of an idol
We dig for the bones of an idol
When the will is gone
'Cause something keeps turning us on
You hold up the cup
You've been searching for
Since you were young
When you still had the bones of an idol
If you still had the bones of an idol
You'd be long long gone
But something keeps turning you on
We cling to the raft we are missing
By half what we wanted
But we escaped with the bones of an idol
Escaped with the belt and the title
But our land is gone
And something keeps turning us on
06 The Jessica Numbers (03:06)
let me through
paper and fist
jessica numbers tell me if
we're clear
write me a storm
just tape the letter to the door
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
brave another road
jessica numbers to the wall
slip through
ever the thief
is posed to hero but we'll see
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
push me through
counting the lies
measuring all our shadows by
old star
shift into red
just stick the numbers to the bed
hairchipping up
the sadness as it passes
as word across
the window frosting out
starting to feel the kicking here at last yeah
something worth keeping around
let me through
paper and fist
jessica numbers give me this
let's fall
look where we land
just write the answer on my hand
this thing is your mission
the lone wish and condition
jessica numbers how we do
jessica numbers how we do
jessica numbers how we do
07 These Are the Fables (03:29)
In coral and gray
In submarine chambers
One day
It swam for the light
The jewels that lit
The cities that float there
Cities in circles drawn perfect, complete
Holding the secrets on my street
My street, my street
So come in and play
The song of the siren
It's commonplace
You hear the voice rise
In one wave
And crash on your doorstep
Making the circle here perfect, complete
These are the fables on my street
Ten thousand dancing girls
Kicking cans 'cross the sky
No reason why
Why ask to pay yourself
For the call of the wild
You found this child
So raise him
And wind your back
Come back to the river
The currents speed by
And hope the men fear
The hammer comes down
So hard on the evening
Cracking the dawn of your
Days are repeat
These are fables on my street
My street, my street
Heaven shook Hell
And down from its pockets
The ring in your bell
It fell through your hands
Hang at your feet
The doors that won't open
Marking the journey of our friends complete
These are the fables of my street
My street
My street, my street
Lay down in glory, you're not alone
My street, my street
Lay down in glory, you're not alone
09 Falling Through Your Clothes (02:53)
Pinwheel spark, break loose and roll
Where you stop nobody knows
Just a thought but gone down
It's been carved into a point understand
Turned into someone that only you know
When you're falling through your clothes
Run run run, deep breath, then jump
Roll with your vertigo stomp
Now you're clear but gone down
You've been cleared of every charge understand
You've turned into someone that only you know
When you're falling through your clothes
11 Three or Four (03:07)
Give me a home
Where the past won't pay no mind
In case i'm bringing my own
Bring me a team of replacements
Just in case the place I'm taking's my own own own
Own own own
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
Tell me I'm numb
I'll be back in just a shake
To see how my babies have grown
Circle the chairs
To protect us from the law
In case you needed my own own own
Own own own
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
Oo oh...
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
Three or four hourglass
12 Star Bodies (04:07)
On a tear
under siege
under oath
anna lee
won't you come
strap yourself
to my side
with our grill
in disguise
we've got more
lives than I
ever dreamed
you could own
at one time
there's a shake with the shock
and a gift off with them
they carry the dust of the failing wisdom
for you there's not any warning
for you there's not any warning
and love is 5 in the morning
on a tear
cautiously
we advance
anna lee
won't you come
pass the torch
bring your hands
yes and no
there's no right
but we have no
better light
to see through
to our star bodies go
there's a shake with the shock
and a gift off with them
they carry the dust of the failing wisdom
for you there's not any warning
for you there's not any warning
and love is 5 in the morning
now take me to where your sister lives
take me to where your sister lives
take me to where your sister lives
take me to where your sister lives
on a tear
far from home
by a thread
anna lee
what's been said
has to say
between us
call me over
I trust
we lay here
'til we must
make our break
to our star bodies go
there's a shake with the shock
and a gift off with them
they carry the dust of the failing wisdom
for you there's not any warning
for you there's not any warning
and love is 5 in the morning
for you there's not any warning
'til we skip through the towns to the bright sweet past on
and bury the dust of the failing wisdom
for you there's not any warning
for you there's not any warning
and love is 5 in the morning
for you there's not any warning
now take me to where your sister lives
take me to where your sister lives
14 Stacked Crooked (04:18)
I counted on my private Altamont
Trusted it all along
But now I'm on my way
We left the house,
Your fingers in my mouth
Stacked crooked all along
But now I'm on my way
Stacked crooked all along
But now I'm on my way
Ooh
The force left through the red light of the hours
I tried to imagine it
I couldn't imagine it
The vantage falling from the ivory tower
I tried to imagine it
I couldn't imagine it
You clicked and tossed
Your crypted crossword locks
You then abandoned talks
And now it's off to say
While we would weep
In smoke and mirrored states
Stacked crooked all along
But now I'm on my way
Stacked crooked all along
But now I'm on my way
Ooh
The force left through the red light of the hours
I tried to imagine it
I couldn't imagine it
The vantage falling from the ivory tower
I tried to imagine it
I couldn't imagine it
Do not do not deny me
Tonight I lost a deal
Do not do not deny me
My achilles heel, oh
Do not do not my
Fact I checked in detail
Do not do not deny me
The clicking of the heels
Do not do not deny me
Tonight my loss of feel
Do not do not deny me
It's my achilles heel, oh
Do not do not my
Fact I checked in detail
Do not do not deny me
The clicking of the heels
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