's like when you go to find, after a lot of time, an old friend.
You will bring them home, ask him how it goes, you do sit in the chair by the fireplace, offered him a walnut and then told you "a decade in a few sentences: you let him, or rather, no, to the contrary, he is laid off, and his son that grows well in fact it is as fat as a pig, ingurgita those damn snacks from morning to evening.
not you see for years, but it immediately establishes an atmosphere of complicity and proximity, it is as if all this time you had still continued to frequent the bar every fucking night as it once was.
The same thing happens to me with these two discs.
Giovanardi is the former singer of La Crus - historical rock band of the great age of Italian independent (Afterhours, Marlene Kuntz, Almamegretta, CSI, etc.) and letters with which he has participated in Sanremo last - and for him Time has passed, there will have missed that kind of carry-dall'inquietante Biscardiana color, I would say a RAL 2009, with the eye. This new job all in all it seemed fun, though not essential, and contains, besides the already known I confess, orchestral and pop music, as well as some cover by the legendary '60s, seems like Mina: Bang Bang (with Violante Placido) and I Love You Too. The flaw is Neil Armstrong, from the explicit text ("can do with a very short step, to leave it all behind you) but like so embarrassing to the White.
J. Mascis instead exhibits a terrific flowing mane and gray ash, and is the leader of Dinosaur Jr., champion of the noise band returned last year with the notable Farm at the level of the early 90s. Several Shades Of
Why is an acoustic record, published by Sub Pop, which goes to fill a huge void for those who - like us - have always hoped in a disk unplugged the old dinosaur found a vein and to confirm its composition.
Purify from the usual chitarrone and walls of feedback and violent release of amps, are the melodies, pleasing and poignant, and the nasal voice of a J. Mascis indolent and more and more 'clone of his idol, Neil "Crazy Horse" Young (Can I): the classic Not Enough, Is It Done and Where Are You have nothing to envy to the best footage (Get Me Start Choppin', Thumb ), the title track recalls the folk-rock of CSN & Y, and sweet are the twilight Very Nervous And Love and Too Deep, perhaps the most 'beautiful of the lot.
Bravissimo.
