Ma quanto mi piace il nuovo disco di Lightspeed Champion?
Il redivivo Dev Hynes si accasa in Omaha, Nebraska e s'improvvisa pop- folk singer, dopo aver messo la parola "fine" fra lui e le moine nu rave da quarto (ve li ricordate?) Test Icicles. Risorto dalle ceneri della precedente esperienza musicale, sotto il moniker Lightspeed Champion, s'inventa di sana pianta il disco "Falling Off The Lavender Bridge", segno della sua conversione e dei tempi (musicali) che mutano. Un disco che certamente non cambia la vita ma che è destinato ad "essere segnato con il carbone bianco" perché rappresenta una piccola rarità nelle sue melodie introspettive, nella sua "maniera" quasi serica, a volte poco disinvolta, a volte troppo sino a deragliare nell'onirico e nel naif. Un sogno ad occhi aperti o qualcosa che gli somiglia molto. Questo è il senso che evocano canzoni di ben 10 minuti (tempi musicali che cambiano avevamo detto...) come la preziosissima "Midnight Surprise" che, già da sola sconfessa il valore dell'unico e primo disco della sua precedente band. "Dry Lips": altro episodio in cui l'avvicendarsi di più strumenti rivela una solida impalcatura e un altrettanto valido arrangiamento. Seguono le suadenti "Salty Water", "Let The Bitches Die".
Nulla è affidato al caso in queste dodici inestimabili tracce che innalzano, è fuor di dubbio, la qualità di certo cantautorato schivo, appartato e di nicchia assoluta anche se questi lemmi non mi sembrano alla fine molto appropriati per il Nostro (se non per l'attitudine più genuina e per l'approccio"bedroom pop", easy del suono) visto che già incide per la blasonatissima Domino Records, etichetta degli Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Animal Collective. La brezza dei Bright Eyes, dei primi Okkervil River non fa fatica a spirare e ci sembra quasi che Lightspeed Champion stia qui a dimostrarci che un futuro è possibile anche dopo i Belle and Sebastian coadiuvati da Isobel Campbel ma chissà che non sia poi una scontata promessa per il futuro?
La bici della Domino è oramai sua, adesso bisogna vedere se si tratta di una bella speranza o solo dell'ennesimo disco ben prodotto/ ben confezionato.
Caduti anche voi dal ponte color lavanda o nella più moderna delle trappole?
Elenco tracce testi e video
02 Galaxy of the Lost (03:57)
I feel better now I've seen you,
But deep inside my bones feel like timber.
And I am shaking from the tension and I will shudder at the mention.
Hate to think what would happen if I started to drink like you, maybe I will loosen up..well, pour me another gin.
Guzzle down,
My neck will burn as we kiss and I'm sick in your mouth.
I know you want more.
Well kiss my open wounds and add some ice,
and choke on my sick vice.
Oh girl the lights are on.
Trapped in bed,
as the poison slowly creeps in and stops me dead, should have known better than to cave in to such fantasies.
Guzzle down,
My neck will burn as we kiss and I'm sick in your mouth.
I know you want more.
Well kiss my open wounds and add some ice,
and choke on my sick vice.
Oh girl the lights are on.
I feel better now I've seen you,
But deep inside my bones feel like timber.
And I am shaking from the tension and I will shudder at the mention.
03 Tell Me What It's Worth (02:40)
Crack open the good times
On a street corner bustin rhymes
but you fell between the lines.
They all laugh, become a joke
Am i crazy baby let's all hope
for narrow halls, crunching drums
I've got the sweets sugar but that's all.
Tell me what it's worth
Tell me what it's worth
So tell us that we're spelling everything wrong
Negroes turn a blueish-grey when they're dead
That's funny 'cos ive just turned bright red
RED RED RED
Kill, kill, kill when everything starts to suck
Drownin all your sins boy well i geuss thats bad luck
The fact that your race is full of shit
I've got the sweets sugar but that's it.
Tell me what it's worth
Tell me what it's worth
woah woah
Clean your blades and start swinging
Don't stop till the red runs out
Till no more joy pours out of your mouth
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
woah woah
04 All to Shit (01:11)
This is all going all to shit.
What can I do it's me and you...ruined.
So now I'm leaving scratching out my eyes from sights I've seen.
I'm done being keen.
05 Midnight Surprise (09:55)
Shoot me into sleep, your beauty is so close to me
And even better still, warm nights and the chill
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Deeper in the zone, 2-player combo mode
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Ejacquantumbreeze!
And even better still, warm nights and the chill
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Deeper in the zone, 2-player combo mode
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Ejacquantumbreeze! Even in the sea
Replace all meaning - "I-spy"
Fuck, I think she just saw me, stop hiding in the sea
Shit, my midnight surprise has found out all my lines
Crunch time, night time, palm luxuries which I mistake for life
Don't talk to me, stay away unless you want me near you
I'm waiting in silence and cloaking my violence
You, almost encourage my happiness, but I know best
Wake up, smell the semen, this will never happen for you
Evil waits inside your home and shakes you through and through
Oh, wake up princess
I guess, deep down, my heart is not as pure as it was
And my food is ruined, the freezer doorway to above
I'll fire in the sun, I'm dying just for fun
And what is left of this?
My fare is calling down for you all to go away, forget this all exists
I fly up in the sun, I'm dying, just for fun
As I lay in bed, wrapped in cold sweat, just take me now
Shoot me into sleep...
09 Dry Lips (03:45)
So now i'm holding in my sides, and my bags are over spilling,this leads me to think.
My guts have started to boil, and my stomach keeps on spinning. thank you, my friends.
The next stop is not echo park so i've shut my eyes, i'll pretend instead.
You don't have to tell me this is wrong.
I know but i can't erase two years of my life.
Even in my dreams if you turn up i'm unhappy.
I take a step, and carve all the horns. the wings are trapped in the door,
I sure feel, the spit.
And everyone is staring,it's all so overwhelming, if they didn't look would i still complain.
Of course , i would.
A disquieting pre occupation,the keys to a nightmare which i taped,
And made sure, i watched daily.
This required a careful touch and a swinging chain.
Put the salty water in my broken wounds....
And then..
Tell her..
I give up...
He's won.. and i have lost all.
My humanity.
And now..
I give up..
I give this planet another 10 years at least, sarah... my sweet..sarah, my treat. keep running from me.
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