La mia Recensione: Pillar - Now

 Pillar - Now

Il vecchio scriba non è mai stato nell'Indiana e non è ascoltando il singolo dei Pillar che penserà di poterlo fare, perché Now è il luogo dove si trova a proprio agio, musica come una casa edificata, come potrebbe esserlo per molti di voi. Il tutto senza fare fatica e poi quello stato americano, forse, ha anche questa melodia cupa al suo interno.

Urta splendidamente questa chitarra Darkwave che attira nel gioco erotico di una ambascia irrefrenabile il basso, con un dolore che sembra addensarsi lungo la strofa per spiccare il volo in un ritornello che ha la capacità di far nascere un piccolo sorriso, quasi per sbaglio. Siamo in piena Europa, strano, mica negli Usa, con questo brano color viola acceso di Inghilterra primi anni ’80, dove tutto accenna e nulla è votato all'esuberanza, in quanto è l'equilibrio di tutte le parti coinvolte a donare questa estasi violentemente dolce…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18 Marzo 2023

https://pillar-music.bandcamp.com/track/now

My Review: Pillar - Now

 Pillar - Now

The old scribe has never been to Indiana and it's not by listening to Pillar's single that he finds himself able to, because Now is where he's at home, music is like a house built, as it might be for many of you. The whole thing is effortless and then that American state, perhaps, also has this dark melody at its core.

It bumps beautifully into a darkwave guitar that draws the bass into the erotic play of an irrepressible ambuscade, with an ache that seems to thicken along the verse to take flight in a refrain that has the ability to raise a small smile, almost by accident. We are in the middle of Europe, strange, not the US, with this bright purple track from early 80s England, where everything hints and nothing is devoted to exuberance, as it is the balance of all the parts involved that gives this violently sweet...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18th March 2023

https://pillar-music.bandcamp.com/track/now

La mia Recensione: Mist Double - OUTERSPHERE

 

Mist Double - OUTERSPHERE

A volte le nuvole sono pagnotte dal colore diverso e che sanno diventare ottime e succulenti canzoni, come quelle dei Mist Double, una band di Philadelphia capace di farci assaporare anche la più umile delle briciole di questo piatto delizioso che è OUTERSHERE.

Se il Noise può subire un approccio gentile per smussare un po’ certi suoi angoli, allora è lo Shoegaze il solo ad aver il potere di riuscire nell’impresa. 

Il cielo si riempie di gioia: si sono trovate delle sentinelle in grado di governare il rumore e di renderlo poesia (Hollow), si sono creati sentieri sognanti con la spina accesa per illuminare il nostro pianeta (Leaves), giungendo a correre con il sorriso perenne (Around You), con tonnellate di riverberi a fare di noi timpani estasiati.

Entrate tra le braccia di un calore notturno: veloce e sincopato (Spacewalk), sarete sudore sotto un fiume di chitarre inebrianti. Gli anni ’90 hanno creato un genere come lo Shoegaze e molto di tutto quello che è successo in quella decade viene sintetizzato nella magnifica valanga ipnotica di una carezza estiva (Beyond), in cui nell’ascolto si diventa più contenti.

Un EP meraviglioso, incredibile, vitalizzante, che il vecchio scriba raccomanda senza esitazioni…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18 Marzo 2023

https://mistdouble.bandcamp.com/album/outersphere

My Review: Mist Double - OUTERSPHERE

 Mist Double - OUTERSPHERE

Sometimes the clouds are differently coloured loaves of bread that can become excellent, succulent songs, like those of Mist Double, a Philadelphia band capable of making us savour even the humblest of crumbs of the delicious dish that is OUTERSHERE.

If Noise can take a gentle approach by smoothing out some of its corners, then Shoegaze alone has the power to succeed. 

The sky fills with joy: sentinels have been found that can govern noise and make it poetry (Hollow), dreamy paths have been created with a lighted plug to illuminate our planet (Leaves), running with an everlasting smile (Around You), with tons of reverberations to make us ecstatic.

Enter the arms of nocturnal warmth: fast and syncopated (Spacewalk), you'll be sweating under a river of intoxicating guitars. The 90s created a genre like Shoegaze and much of everything that happened in that decade is summed up in the magnificent hypnotic avalanche of a summer caress (Beyond), where you become happier through listening.

A wonderful, incredible, vitalising EP that the old scribe recommends without hesitation...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18th March 2023

https://mistdouble.bandcamp.com/album/outersphere

My Review: Worn Out - The Unknown Demo

 Worn Out - The Unknown Demo

Can you imagine a melody with Gothic fingerprints emerging dazed but happy from a psychiatric visit by a German band?

The result can be found inside The Unknown Demo, four swaggering Post-Punk raids full of Darkwave attitude, which are the obvious form of atonement for the sins of many individuals and which Worn Out have summed up and explained in these intense tracks, with guaranteed emotion, while the body, dancing, bounces through the dust of sadnesses beautifully stitched together.

They sing of loneliness, of paths of unavoidable damage, of screams and drowned souls, of unfinished letters, while the music acts as an altar, an invocation, a jolt, a basin to welcome extinguished spirits. 

To feel enveloped by these atmospheres is to find continuity with what one has always loved: those who are predisposed to this kind of music smile while holding a skeleton in their hands. Worn Out have written four icy wedges and thrown in our expectations, because in these parts joy is grey leading to black, irresistible...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18th March 2023

https://wornoutwave.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknown-demo

La mia Recensione: Worn Out - The Unknown Demo

Worn Out - The Unknown Demo

 

Riuscite a immaginare una melodia con le impronte gotiche uscire frastornata ma felice da una visita psichiatrica da parte di una band tedesca?

Il risultato è dentro l'ascolto di The Unknown Demo, quattro spavalde scorribande Post-Punk piene di attitudine Darkwave, che sono l'evidente forma di espiazione dei peccati di molti individui e che i Worn Out hanno riassunto e spiegato in queste tracce così intense, dalla commozione assicurata, mentre il corpo, danzando, rimbalza tra la polvere di tristezze magnificamente cucite insieme.

Cantano dellala solitudine, di percorsi fatti di danni inevitabili, di urla e di anime affogate, di lettere incompiute, mentre la musica fa da altare, da invocazione, da sussulto, da bacino per accogliere spiriti in spegnimento. 

Sentirsi avvolti da queste atmosfere è trovare continuità con ciò che si è sempre amato: chi è predisposto a questo tipo di musica sorride tenendo uno scheletro in mano. I Worn Out hanno scritto quattro cunei gelidi e lanciati nelle nostre attese, perché da queste parti la gioia è grigia tendente al nero, irresistibile…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18 Marzo 2023

https://wornoutwave.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknown-demo

My Review: Dark Narrows - My Last Party

 Dark Narrows - My Last Party 

Here are the shadows of Maryland encircling the wind and bringing crumbs of electrified post-punk to the shores of a pulsing call. They return, enchant, chill breaths, tergiversate, and lead our listening on a leash to the earthly field of continuous, amplified spasms.

The need to affirm the identity of sound passes through stratagems that employ electronics as a putative father, the governing of impulse with the schematic school that right in the heart of Maryland (1978) had shown a new way forward.

Musical notes like gothic sweat moving on keyboards oxygenated by restlessness and bewilderment, circular, never mutant, always constant, travelling within themselves.

How far have these guys come? Perhaps you may have heard their magnificent cover of Desire, by The Sound. Well: in this disc you will hear their steps become authoritative, disengaged from comparisons, from the need for affirmations, and instead find a wrapping with their sound, rhythm, melodic traits that are absolutely delicious and whose importance must be recognised. A growing band, ranging and sowing pulses full of fermenting liquids that stop the discomfort of living, telling it like it is. Thus we find highly muscular uprisings, hydrating systems of rebellion that find in the guitar loops great forests to take in, with the bass pulling slaps and cleaning up the misunderstandings of stupid comparisons. It is a spectacular album, a soulful voice that overthrows identity on melodic lines that are always reduced to the bone, a sublime diet that empties and detoxifies listening from any drift composed of stupid excesses. 

My Last Party is not made up of episodes, but of a strategic line given by a summa that expands and forms a nucleus on which everything that enters becomes polite and relevant: there are few who do this and they do it damn well!

Everything is electric discharge, beat after beat that informs and kneads ideas and needs in order to launch an attack that, compulsive and atrocious, makes this work an absolute gem...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

17th March 2023

https://darknarrows.bandcamp.com/album/my-last-party