I think I've consumed enough of the last album Cranes, same name, to be able to talk in a rational and logical.
Although I'm not always nice, I feel obliged to offer a brief review of the discography British band, to understand how I think, in essence, cheating estimates of those who argued that the true dark mercilessly cutting off this disc, the Cranes, bearer, no undisputed champion no doubt the dream pop, with blatant references Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus in delicate forms, have always been minimal, gothic, decadent, epic, dark, and everything to exhaustion at times, and for me in my living annuity value scales for some basic reasons: to Forever, the 1993 album of rare beauty, the completeness of the Future anthology Songs of 2001 and, last but not least , for having opened for the Cure for a long time.
Around the historicism of these facts, the record dives Alison Shaw & Company has been punctuated by episodes varied greatly: Loved and Wings of Joy unheard alternate pieces of good insights, and substance are more 'than enough, Self-Non- self is an amateur electronic confusion, Orestes and Electra is worthy of idozer but in the negative, the penultimate effort Particles and Waves disappointed me deeply because of its insignificance.
recall, one of the highlights of the band is given by stomach pains and cries without meaning that the vocals (?) Alison Shaw, who is often the woman of my life but when she sings in French I get the murderous instincts, propina to listeners. In comparison with that girl in Catania which I spoke a few posts ago and I never dream of mentioning in this post, because to look after at least 100km Shaw and all the names that I've done so far and that I will be reborn 30 more times and parallel three more 'high, has the voice over' trivial in the history of Italian music. The uniqueness of Alison has allowed me to place it a few times at the side of Frazer, without discussing the technical limitations clear, but at the level of charm to speak without fear of contradiction of almost as extraordinary.
From another point of view, my yardstick will always focused on the comparison, even unconsciously, with the Prince album to their discography, (as I said) Forever. Forever and a tour of the catchy repeated eleven times in eleven different sauces without missing a note the peculiarity dream pop that permeates the entire album, monotone par excellence. And far be it from me to criticize the attitude monotonous I think it's the new frontier of the music, and all the bands that most 'happy to listen to entire albums now built up a strong piece that pushed them toward the sky. You people who go out in demonstrations for years, and suddenly shit out of a 4 / 4 banal and repetitive doing copy-paste the refrain of a b-side any of the Pixies and a verse copied from the B side of one of Sonic Youth who has sold 6 copies in 1991, and when the agent requires them to build an album around (11 equal pieces in 11 different sauces), here's the bang expected. This happens also in Italy, the bau exploded by copy-paste Jarvis Cocker songs that do not even remember, and played in Montepulciano. We listened to them in 20 and no spinning. Then he saw someone Baracca & Burattini and have released a lackluster album beautifully. We listened in 300. Then I went on MTV, and we were 3000. Then the EMI did release an album and are now poor monotonous 500,000. Then I went to MTV and the band of the moment. And all the little groups of the Italian provinces imitate them without shame, without notice, however, ' now that the ride is closed permanently. The
percordo is always the same, assuming 'that Forever from last century, when indie bands did not come out for a long time that peer-to-peer designated as the main trend of the season in less than a week, and if the trend today is to make Shout Out Louds album type or MGMT or Bloc Party or Keane or Athlete or Interpol or Editors or Artic Monkeys (a band of the province of Newcastle played at the festival the local copy-paste the above, any notice them a big dick , the band signed to Subpop and remains nell'alveo indie about a year or two, then vodaf * chooses to advertise in the autumn of that famous copy-paste, signed to EMI and cover bands are born of Franz Ferdinand like mushrooms after rain, and last as long as mushrooms after rain, in fact) the Cranes had arrived there twenty years ago.
And again, I do not see anything wrong in this, nor am I complaining. The groups cover of Joy Division, mentioned earlier, is my daily bread, and for years I longed for the cover band Smashing, monotonous and lack of m'è now become synonymous with confusion, that's why the new album Afterhours can never please me, having no reference points. After were the new wave, post punk, post rock and ballads for small hyena was a noble and delicate album, I would say the most 'beautiful in their discography, and treated the same songs all around me-the-king. The Milanese killed on Saturday means a lot, it ends up not saying anything, without a shred of the guideline. And this self-titled
Cranes is arranged in a logical and so conscientious that, as far as to have little monotonous, it flows in a refined musical crescendo. The attack chimes with that, I will tell you the truth, put me shiver. I knew that if Shaw could be fixed permanently with that stuff and, if so, I would be forced to intercept all copies of the CD to throw them in the Mariana Trench and strocare brutally gothic Portsmouth, erasing forever from my memory any of their track, and the first two parts are in fact based on the fucking music box sounds and torn and baby voice choir dell'Antoniano; too exaggerated, too heavy trials, until 1 minute and 23 seconds of the turn Worlds here: chitarrone sound and two full chords, the wonder cranes in all its glory, decadent , sad, tears, began the delicate lament of Alison Shaw, who leads us into a new carpet of sounds more and more 'bitter and engaging. Unfortunately, the carillon's cock back, and minimalism is king in the next few pieces, but instead of undermining the quality of all this choice gives the album a remarkable dignity. This is the case Feathers, but not Wires, thin but rhythmic with a guitar line that conceals the success plin plin heavy and hateful, but the real highlight, unforgettable anthology, is Wonderful things, nomen omen, growing in scale deep voice accompanied by the desperate and the only Shaw's, four minutes Kind of an acoustic or with a little distortion, without battery, a sad song and decadent, to be heard in religious silence, as much as the piece immediately following Collecting Stones, a melody of another world, on the air Paris and Rome, another of our great classic, but with a convincentissima Alison, sad and whispering. The disc is a continuous crescendo Panorama on, basically, is more and more 'concreteness, uniformity, although the landscape is more ethereal as in the episodes' of successful Cranes. Invisible is the last song without drums, instead of returning in Move Along, which is also minimal and melodic, at night, "water" as Sleepwalking , instrumental piece, until the closure from the perspective of shoegaze Cranes as an anthology of the pillars of their music, the essence of most 'pure dream, chorus and delay on a ride endlessly repeated, High and Low.
The namesake of the Cranes, in essence, is an experimental and minimal travel, a new experience but dream hard, proposed by applying sound different to the characteristics typical of their music, thus enriching and innovating. Something that surprised me and happily surprised, sampling and the chimes are well proportioned and Alison's voice is always that value added melodic, a single instrument, the fundamental element of yet another surreal journey of a decadent and mature band, which is redeemed by the previous episodes and even less fortunate without reaching those heights that perhaps their self-endemic will not allow him to draw ever proves to be an active, rational, courageous and able to communicate much more, should and could add several other chapters to Baroque world he has created, which has built the most 'solid foundations and on which, as this disc demonstrates, once again, reigns with few conflicts, and especially with unquestionable merit.