LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DYNAMO/BINARY

I nuovi White Lies? O nuovi-nuovi Editors? O nuovi-nuovi-nuovi Interpol? O nuovi-nuovi-nuovi-nuovi Joy Division?




Show me what to be
Running away
From all you see
Have I met you before?
This time
Am I half a mile?
Am I out of fly?
So I go
Running away from

Tell me secrets
Tell me Lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

Feelings are down
Feelings are guilt
Unable to shout
Or blood spill
Have I felt this before?
This time
Can I reading control?
Can I make this blind?
So I go
Running away from

Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo
Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

(2011)

PLAYLIST/MARZO

MARCHING SONG/ESBEN AND THE WITCH

In attesa della primavera, la playlist di Marzo.

01. BEATING HEART/LA SERA
(LA SERA)
02. IS LOVE/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
03. EUPHORIA, TAKE MY HAND/GLASVEGAS
(EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\)
04. BE THE ONE/MOBY
(BE THE ONE EP)
05. UBERLIN/R.E.M.
(COLLAPSE INTO NOW)
06. WILL DO/TV ON THE RADIO
(NINE TYPES OF LIGHT)
07. TOMORROW HAS TO WAIT/PETER BJORN AND JOHN
(GIMME SOME)
08. FORGET THAT YOU'RE YOUNG/THE RAVEONETTES
(RAVEN IN THE GRAVE)
09. SILKY EYES/PURO INSTINCT
(HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY)
10. UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS/THE STROKES
(ANGLES)
11. MERMAID/OKKERVIL RIVER
(MERMAID Single)
12. MARCHING SONG/ESBEN AND THE WITCH
(VIOLET CRIES)
13. CODEX/RADIOHEAD
(THE KING OF LIMBS)
14. OH DAE-SU/WE MADE GOD
(IT'S GETTING COLDER)
15. ALL AND EVERYONE/PJ HARVEY
(LET ENGLAND SHAKE)
16. BLIND/CHAPEL CLUB
(PALACE)
17. FRANCIS THOMPSON/EMPHEMETRY
(A LULLABY HUM FOR TIRED STREETS)

Bonus Track

STRANGELOVE/BAT FOR LASHES
(GUCCI GUILTY)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IS LOVE/WHITE LIES

She stares into the mirror
Youth fading with the sun
The hollows in her face
Like wishing wells
Scarlet as a papercut
And jewelled as the Orion
She'd never worn that jewellery as a girl

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

He stares into the river
Heart falling to the drift
An argument of cars
Moving full steam behind
Blood-shot as a baby
And sulking like a valley
Fishing in reflections
Killing time

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

It's the bath that's getting cold while you're frozen to your bed
The milk that's going rancid on the table
The panic in the evening
The photos in the dustbin
The pointless items we forgot to label
It's the perfume on her wrist
That stinks of easy birthdays
The spare keys like asbestos on the side
It's the cross around his neck
For luck and not for honour
Like diamond over knuckle on a newly married bride

She says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
He says the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
I know the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love
I know the only thing I've ever found
That's greater than it always sounds is love

ALBUM: RITUAL (2011)

PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

THE LAST LIVING ROSE/PJ HARVEY

La playlist di Febbraio.

01. THE WORLD IS YOURS/GLASVEGAS
(EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\)
02. SURFACING/CHAPEL CLUB
(PALACE)
03. BREAKER, BREAKER/PETER, BJORN AND JOHN
(GIMME SOME)
04. ARIEL/STATELESS
(MATILDA)
05. REVOLVING DOORS/GORILLAZ
(THE FALL)
06. STILYAGI/PURO INSTINCT FEAT. ARIEL PINK
(HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY)
07. ALL DIE YOUNG/SMITH WESTERNS
(DYE IT BLONDE)
08. DO YOU LOVE IT?/MEW
(EGGS ARE FUNNY)
09. PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
10. WARPATH/ESBAN AND THE WITCH
(VIOLET CRIES)
11. LIPPY KIDS/ELBOW
(BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!)
12. LETTERS TO THE METRO/MOGWAI
(HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL)
13. SUZANNE AND I/ANNA CALVI
(ANNA CALVI)
14. RABBIT WILL RUN/IRON AND WINE
(KISS EACH OTHER CLEAN)
15. THE LAST LIVING ROSE/PJ HARVEY
(LET ENGLAND SHAKE)
16. I AM HOME/EX LIBRAS
[CUT(S)]
17. IODINE AND IRON/THE VEILS
(TROUBLES OF THE BRAIN EP)

Bonus Tracks

ADDICTED TO THE CURE/THE WOMBATS
(JUMP INTO THE FOG EP)
AUSTRALIA/AMANDA PALMER
(GOES DOWN UNDER)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES

After the red ants, the black-out comes peace and quiet
Those little footprints fleshed out calm in my mind
I lay like a compass, digits accusing the sunrise
Raindrops abseil the window and flinch through the hurt cries

I feel this great pressure coming down on me
And the tide of my bliss, pulling at your sympathy
I feel this great pressure coming down on me
When my nerve's on the high-wire
My bliss, pulling at your sympathy

After the hunt and the sweat now comes peace and quiet
Your head on my heart anchored the storm in my eyes
I lay like a carcass, your lips never letting the blood dry
And so I pray for tomorrow and wait listening out for a reply

I feel this great pressure coming down on me
And the tide of my bliss, pulling at your sympathy
I feel this great pressure coming down on me
When my nerve's on the high-wire
My bliss, pulling at your sympathy

I feel this great pressure coming down on me
And the tide of my bliss, pulling at your sympathy
I feel this great pressure coming down on me
When my nerve's on the high-wire
My bliss, pulling at your sympathy

ALBUM: RITUAL (2011)

PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

CRYSTALISED/GORILLAZ

La playlist dell'avvento: una canzone al giorno fino a natale, poi si vedrà.

01. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
(MINES)
02. UNDERTOW/WARPAINT
(THE FOOL)
03. FINGERPRINT/I AM KLOOT
(SKY AT NIGHT)
04. WALLS/SHOUT OUT LOUDS
(WORK)
05. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
(THE KING IS DEAD)
06. SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE/WOLF PARADE
(SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE Digital Single)
07. RANO PANO/MOGWAI
(HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL)
08. ENZYMES/FREELANCE WHALES
(ENZYMES Single)
09. IN YOUR EYES/EDWYN COLLINS FEAT. THE DRUMS
(LOSING SLEEP)
10. MORE THAN A LOVER/THE CORAL
(BUTTERFLY HOUSE)
11. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
(HALCYON DIGEST)
12. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
(MARGINS)
13. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
14. TWIN FLAMES/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
15. WALKING FAR FROM HOME/IRON & WINE
(WALKING FAR FROM HOME)
16. LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY/PANDA BEAR
(LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY 7" Single)
17. TOO MUCH/SUFJAN STEVENS
(THE AGE OF ADZ)
18. KITTY TURN TO CAT/STRANGE HANDS
(DEAD FROZEN DEER EP)
19. TREASURY OF WE/GLASSER
(RING)
20. YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED
(YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE EP)
21. BEYOND REASON/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)
22. SAFE WITHOUT/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)

BONUS TRACKS

WALK OFF/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRYSTALIZED/GORILLAZ

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES

You took the tunnel route home
You've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Apologies on your fingernails
Love flickered in the city of lights
Like good singers on radio waves
I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

You went where the horses cry
You've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Guilt smeared across your lips
I was tired and cold from the window
You're tired, nothing's came
I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

ALBUM: RITUAL (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: A PLACE TO HIDE/WHITE LIES

Could I sit alone and ask about my future
When you replied I'd just turn away
I've been searching through my books to try and
Find some truth
Perhaps disguise is a mysterious way?
And if I made a promise
Could I stay by your side?
Would you guarantee my safety?
And say that I'b be alright?
And if judgement day started tonight
At least I'd know I was right
And I'd be laughing at the end of the world
But take my hand tonight I think we'll be alright girl

I can see it on the TV
There's an air attack
People on the mountains
Screaming I'll be back
And I'm banging on your door
So come on and let me in
I need a place to hide
I need a place to hide before the storm begins

If I told you all the times when I'd done wrong
Could you bathe my soul and wash it all away?
I can't forgive the things that I can still
remember
So I think my friend these sins are here to stay
And I could make a promise
With a tear in my eye
And all the hope in my heart
But all the doubt in my mind
But if judgement day started tonight
At least I'd know I was right
And I'd be laughing at the end of the world
But take my hand tonight I think we'll be alright girl

I can see it on the TV
There's an air attack
People on the mountains
Screaming I'll be back
And I'm banging on your door
So come on and let me in
I need a place to hide
I need a place to hide before the storm begins

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2009

IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS


PAPILLON

In tanti non l'hanno capito, soprattutto quelli che si aspettavano una replica di An End Has A Start, un po' come successe ai Radiohead nel 2000 con Kid A (oggi considerato da molti il miglior disco del decennio...), al posto del quale parecchia gente avrebbe preferito una fotocopia di Ok Computer, ma In This Light And On This Evening è un lavoro decisamente importante, oscuro e monumentalmente anni ottanta a partire dalla copertina, illustrata in stile art decò, fino ad ogni singolo suono dei brani che lo compongono. La produzione di Flood c'è e si sente, il talento degli Editors pure, e Papillon è già il nuovo inno dei dancefloor alternativi.
Tra le cose migliori di quest'anno anche Dark Night Of The Soul, il progetto di Danger Mouse con Gli Sparklehorse e l'apporto creativo di David Lynch, ed il ritorno dei danesi Mew, con No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away.
Una menzione, infine, per i vincitori del sondaggio del blog: secondo i (pochi) lettori che hanno votato, l'album più bello del 2009 è Fantasies, dei canadesi Metric.


LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS



Un ritornello straripante, di quelli che una volta ascoltati, non si dimenticano più. Dal vivo, poi, è assolutamente dirompente. Il brano che i Depeche Mode non hanno mai scritto. Ma gli Editors sì.

LA PLAYLIST DEL 2009

01. INTRODUCING PALACE PALYERS/MEW
02. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2
03. EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS
04. HELP, I'M ALIVE/METRIC
05. THESE ARE MY TWISTED WORDS/RADIOHEAD
06. CRYING LIGHTNING/ARCTIC MONKEYS
07. WRONG/DEPECHE MODE
08. BLACK HEARTED LOVE/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
09. ONLY IF YOU RUN/JULIAN PLENTI
10. LISZTOMANIA/PHOENIX
11. ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND
12. REVENGE/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS
13. THE LOOK YOU GIVE THAT GUY/EELS
14. THE RAKE'S SONG/THE DECEMBERISTS
15. THE WHALE SONG/MODEST MOUSE
16. MISTAKE/MOBY
17. DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP
18. BROKEN LOVE SONG/PETER DOHERTY
19. UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES
20. VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN
21. APPLY/GLASSER
22. BULLETS/ARCHIVE

BONUS TRACKS

MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
ALL FOR THE BEST/THOM YORKE

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IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE (Patrick Daughters)



L'inquietante video di Patrick Daughters per il brano dei Depeche Mode, che mostra un uomo mascherato e legato al posto di guida di un'auto lanciata nel traffico in retromarcia, sembra quasi l'intro di una puntata di CSI: peccato che non ci sia stato alcun seguito, e soprattutto che nessuno ci abbia svelato il colpevole...


IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: WHITE LIES


UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Come successe ad Interpol ed Editors, si sono beccati subito l'etichetta di nuovi Joy Division, ma al di là dei facili paragoni, i giovanissimi White Lies hanno debuttato con un disco di buone canzoni pop dalle atmosfere dark, accuratamente suonato, registrato e prodotto. Il che, al giorno d'oggi, non è affatto cosa da poco.


IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP (Roma/Teatro Tendastrisce) 03/12/09


SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS

Quasi un'insolito quanto apprezzato piccolo festival invernale, quello che si è tenuto lo scorso 3 Dicembre al Teatro Tendastrisce di Roma: tre band di ottimo livello al prezzo (onesto, pergiunta) di una. Wintersleep, The Maccabees, ed infine gli Editors, che hanno portato sul palco il nuovo album In This Light And On This Evening con un'esibizione davvero emozionante, da cantare a squarciagola dal primo all'ultimo pezzo.
Molto bello anche il concerto dei Mogwai all'Auditorium, la scorsa estate.


IL LIBRO DELL'ANNO: LA MORTE DI BUNNY MUNRO (The Death Of Bunny Munro)/NICK CAVE (Feltrinelli)



La versione alcolizzata, lo-fi e meno chirurgica di Chuck Palahniuk: Nick Cave, alla sua seconda opera di narrativa, disegna un personaggio comune e straordinario allo stesso tempo. Bunny Munro è ognuno di noi, riflesso nello specchio, la mattina dopo una sbornia presa per dimenticare uno sbaglio.


IL FILM DELL'ANNO: BASTARDI SENZA GLORIA (Inglourious Basterds)/QUENTIN TARANTINO



La somma del cinema di Tarantino, un film sulla guerra senza neanche una vera scena di guerra, a pensarci bene, ma incredibilmente ricco di citazioni (particolarmente gustosa la battuta di Brad Pitt sui combattimenti negli scantinati...) sfumature linguistiche e dettagli feticisti, attraverso il quale il regista riscrive la storia, dando letteralmente alle fiamme il grande schermo.


LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON/Artisti Vari


MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

Ok, il film sarà pure roba da ragazzini, ma la colonna sonora, curata curata dal musicista francese Alexandre Desplat, è da leccarsi i baffi, anche se sporchi di sangue: dai Death Cab For Cutie ai Grizzly Bear, da Thom Yorke agli Editors, dai Muse ai Killers, tutti presenti con brani inediti.


IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: SOGNANDO CONTROMANO/NEFFA


LONTANO DAL TUO SOLE

Forse non sarà un'opera indimenticabile, ma l'ultimo disco di Neffa è decisamente godibile, e ricco di melodie interessanti. Ascoltate dal vivo, poi, le canzoni di Sognando Contromano assumono ancora più carattere, scrollandosi di dosso quell'aria un po' troppo leccata che purtroppo molto spesso caratterizza le produzioni del pop made in Italy.


I VINCITORI DEL 2008:

DISCO: THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT/THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
CANZONE: UNDERNEATH THE STARS/THE CURE
VIDEO: HOUSE OF CARDS/RADIOHEAD (James Frost)
DEBUTTO: GLASVEGAS
CONCERTO: SIGUR RÓS/(Roma/Auditorium)/12/07/08
LIBRO: NINNA NANNA PER PICCOLI CRIMINALI (Lullabies For Little Criminals)/HEATHER O'NEILL (Mondadori)
FILM: IL TRENO PER IL DARJEELING (The Darjeeling Limited)/WES ANDERSON
COLONNA SONORA: THERE WILL BE BLOOD/JOHNNY GREENWOOD
DISCO ITALIANO: AMEN/BAUSTELLE

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES

Just give me a second, darling, to clear my head
Just put down those scissors, baby
On the single bed
The sand in the hour glass is running low
I came through thunder, the cold, wind, the rain and the snow
To find you awake by your window sill
A sight for saw eyes, and a view to kill

I broke down in horror at you standing there
The glow from the moon shone through cracks in your hair
I shouted with passion “ I love you so much”
But feeling my skin, it was cold to the touch
You whispered where are you?
I questioned your doubt
But soon realized you were talking to God now

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

I looked in the mirror, but something was wrong
I saw you behind, but my reflection was gone
There was smoke in the fireplace as white as the snow
A voice then came gently “Now it’s time to go”
That record you played, as you beg for forgiveness
“Don’t touch me” I screamed
I’ve got unfinished business

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/APRILE

La playlist della primavera, speriamo...


VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN

01. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2
(NO LINE ON THE HORIZON)
02. DANIEL/BAT FOR LASHES
(TWO SUNS)
03. INVADERS MUST DIE/PRODIGY
(INVADERS MUST DIE)
04. VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN
(WEST RYDER PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM)
05. TRASHCAN/DELTA SPIRIT
(ODE TO SUNSHINE)
06. OH! VANITY/THE CHARLATANS
(YOU CROSS MY PATH)
07. BATTLE FOR THE SUN/PLACEBO
(BATTLE FOR THE SUN)
08. UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
09. BLACK HEARTED LOVE/PJ HARVEY
(A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY)
10. BLINDNESS/METRIC
(FANTASIES)
11. MANY SHADES OF BLACK/THE RACONTEURS FEATURING ADELE
(MANY SHADES OF BLACK/SINGLE)
12. KISS MY NAME/ANTHONY AND THE JOHNSONS
(THE CRYING LIGHT)

BONUS TRACKS

VENETIAN HAUTBOY/BEATRICE ANTOLINI
(IL PAESE È REALE)
RUNNING TO STAND STILL/ELBOW
(WAR CHILD PRESENTS HEROES)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEATH/WHITE LIES

I love the feeling when we lift up
Watching the world so small below
I love the dreaming when I think of
The saftey in the clouds out my window
I wonder what keeps us so high up
Could there be a love beneth these wings
If we suddenly fall should I scream out
Or keep very quite and cling to my mouth as I'm crying
So frightend of dying
Relax, yes I'm trying
This fears got a hold on me

Yes, this fears got a hold on me

I love the quite of the night time
When the sun in the deathly sea
I can feel my heart beating as I speed from
Then sense of time catching up with me
The sky set out like a pathway
But who decides which path we take
As people drift into a dream world
I close my eyes as my hands shake and when I see a new day
Who's driving this anyway
I picture my own grave
Cause fears got a hold on me

Yes, this fears got a hold on me

Floating neither up or down I wonder when I'll hit the ground
Well the earth beneth my body shake
And cast your sleeping hearts awake
Could it tremble stars from moon light skies
Could it drag a tear from your cold eyes
I live on the right side I sleep in the left
Thats why everythings got to be love or death

Yes, this fears got a hold on me

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

La playlist che girerà sul mio iPod a Febbraio:


STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP

01. FLOWERS AND FOOTBALL TOPS/GLASVEGAS
(GLASVEGAS)
02. LIVE ALONE/FRANZ FERDINAND
(TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND)
03. THE FEAR/LILY ALLEN
(IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU)
04. STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP
(COLONIA)
05. ULTRAVIOLENCE/HEARTSREVOLUTION
(SWITCHBLADE EP)
06. E.S.T./WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
07. LENIN/ARCADE FIRE
(DARK WAS THE NIGHT/Various artists)
08. TOMORROW/CLINIC
(DO IT!)
09. SOMETHING IS SQUEEZING MY SKULL/MORRISSEY
(YEARS OF REFUSAL)
10. YOUR MOUTH/TELEFON TEL AVIV
(IMMOLATE YOURSELF)
11. MITHRIDATE/THE EVPATORIA REPORT
(MAAR)
12. THE KIDS ARE ULTRA-VIOLENT/WINTERSLEEP
(WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/Bonus track)

BONUS TRACK

BROKEN/GORILLAZ
(PHASE 3 DEMOS)

ASCOLTI: TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND/FRANZ FERDINAND, TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND

Un atteso ritorno, ed una novità assoluta: Franz Ferdinand e White Lies. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand annuncia il terzo capitolo della storia della band scozzese, in uscita a fine mese. Alex Kapranos, in fase di lavorazione, lo aveva definito come un disco più lento, ma al tempo stesso anche più dance dei precedenti. Al primo ascolto, l'impressione è che si tratti di un album più completo e maturo, nel quale l'attitudine rock anni sessanta tipica del gruppo lascia spesso la scena a sonorità diverse: dall'elettronica quasi trance di Lucid Dreams all'elegante brit pop di Live Alone (che ricorda i Pulp di Jarvis Cocker), passando per l'atmosfera eighties di Can't Stop Feeling. Intendiamoci, si tratta di musica decisamente furba, quasi ruffiana, ma proprio per questo estremamente godibile. In più, va detto, Ulysses è davvero un gran singolo.
I White Lies, invece, sono la prima, grande novità annunciata del 2009, se non altro perchè vengono pubblicati dalla Fiction, la prima, storica etichetta dei Cure. Ma per quanto le tinte restino comunque oscure, ed i testi risultino particolarmente cupi, la giovanissima band inglese s'inserisce piuttosto nel solco tracciato dai Joy Division, di recente riportato alla luce con grande successo dagli Interpol prima e dagli Editors poi. Forse Harry McVeigh e compagni non saranno dotati di altrettanto talento, ma meritano comunque un ascolto: i signoli Death e To Lose My Life, grazie al passaparola su internet, sono già dei piccoli cult, ed anche pezzi come A Place To Hide e E.S.T. si lasciano ascoltare con piacere.

TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND/FRANZ FERDINAND
TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: E.S.T./WHITE LIES

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

You can tie my hands to the walls
But you can't tie my dreams to this place
I might fall like a rock from your heart
But you won't see me fall from grace

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

I leave my memoirs in blood on the floor
And my fears with the nurse on the stairs
I'm only going where you'll be some day
So don't say rest in peace in your prayers

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never forget about me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/GENNAIO

La prima playlist del nuovo anno:


DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP

01. ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND
(TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND)
02. GOOD DAYS BAD DAYS/KAISER CHIEFS
(OFF WITH THEIR HEADS)
03. LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR II/COLDPLAY
(PROSPEKT'S MARCH)
04. I'M JIM MORRISON I'M DEAD/MOGWAI
(THE HAWK IS HOWLING)
05 DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP
(WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY)
06. FAMILY TREE/TV ON THE RADIO
(DEAR SCIENCE)
07. BIKO/BLOC PARTY
(INTIMACY)
08. TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
09. MY DELIRIUM/LADYHAWKE
(LADYHAWKE)
10. ECHOES/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
(GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT)
11. DIFFERENT WORLD/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
(TIGHTLY UNWOUND)
12. HOPE MOUNTAIN/ANTHONY & THE JOHNSONS
(ANOTHER WORLD)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was always careless as a child
And there's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
But a desperate fear flows through my blood
That our dead loves buried beneath the mud

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

I said I've got no time I have to go
And I was more right then now I'll ever know
He said my heart is faint, will minds regret
And left him crying next to the chapels steps

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was careless as a child
There's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE
(2009)