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Jason Reece e Conrad Keely, l'asse portante degli
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (Trance Syndicate, 1997)
di Austin, sono
entrambi cresciuti alle Hawaii e poi vissuti a Olympia, nel Washington.
I componenti del gruppo si scambiano di continuo gli strumenti, ma, visto
come li suonano, non e` molto importante. Cambiano di continuo anche lo
stile musicale. Il disco inizia infatti con Richter Scale Madness all'insegna
di un rock and roll eseguito con la foga del thrash, ma prosegue subito dopo
con Novena Without Faith, un lungo brano psichedelico che passa dal bisbiglio
ipnotico a un crescendo fragoroso, e continua in questo altalenare d'umori.
Il disco e` pertanto dispersivo e confuso. Ciascuno dei primi due brani
potrebbe essere l'inizio di un disco di tutto riguardo, ma nessuno dei due
dischi si materializza nel proseguio.
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The lengthy Aged Dolls on Madonna (Merge, 1999) epitomizes the
band's limits: a badly concocted mix of acid-rock and punk-pop.
The album is saved by a touch of Sonic Youth's noise-pop
(Mark David Chapman) and a few bursts of hardcore energy
(Blight Takes All, A Perfect Tenhood).
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La lunga Aged Dolls su Madonna (Merge, 1999) epitomizza i limiti
del complesso: una miscela poco convinta di
acid-rock e punk-pop. L'album viene salvato da un noise-pop alla
Sonic Youth
(Mark David Chapman) e da qualche botto di energia hardcore
(Mistakes and Regrets,
Blight Takes All, A Perfect Tenhood).
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There is not much that is worth saving in the band's commercial sell-out,
Source Tags & Codes (Interscope, 2002).
A nod or two to the visceral post-hardcore of Fugazi
(Days Of Being Wild, Baudelaire, Homage), a diligent
impersonation of Pearl Jam's grunge (It Was There That I Saw You),
a couple of sentimental emo-core dirges
(Heart In The Hand Of The Matter and Source Tags & Codes, the
most artful orchestration here),
some catchy/gritty Sonic Youth-ian ballads
(Monsoon, Relative Ways),
and a general sense of "dejavu" are hard to digest, despite the numerous
production feats.
The EP The Secret Of Elanas Tomb (Interscope, 2003) contains
Intelligence, that winks at the new wave and German avant-rock of
the 1970s.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Alessandro Cislaghi)
Source Tags & Codes (Interscope, 2002) è ciò uno dei pochi successi commerciali da annoverare tra tutte le produzioni del gruppo. Album che accenna al viscerale post-hardcore di Fugazi (Days Of Being Wild, Baudelaire, Homage), che imita diligentemente lo stile grunge dei Pearl Jam (It Was There That I Saw You), che contiene un paio di nenie sentimentali (Heart In The Hand Of The Matter e Source Tags & Codes, quest'ultima l'orchestrazione più azzeccata), alcune ballate orecchiabili di tipo Sonic Youth-ian (Monsoon, Relative Ways) ed un senso generale di "dejavu" difficile da digerire malgrado numerose sono state le imprese di valorizzare l'intero lavoro.
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Worlds Apart (Interscope, 2005),
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's sell-out album,
is basically the next step in the evolution of the genre of
visceral melody coined by
Nirvana
and perfected by the
Foo Fighters.
Except that here it weds cute Beatles-style arrangements that mostly sink it.
Creative constructions abound, often coupled with
faux sociopolitical awareness (Worlds Apart
with loudly sloppy drumming and jangling guitar,
A Classic Arts Showcase, with a romantic orchestral interlude,
Summer of '91), but ultimately this is
poppy fluff for the post-punks who never heard Bacharach
(The Rest Will Follow, The Lost City of Refuge)
and bombast for the post-Vangelis generation
(the seven-minute Will You Smile Again, with a glorious two-minute
instrumental introduction).
In retrospect, Source Tags & Codes feels like a revolutionary album compared with the conservative stand of this one.
So Divided (Interscope, 2006) boasts a majectic orchestral sound and
crisp solemn melodies (and at least one anthemic rocker, Stand in Silence),
while abandoning the violent edges of previous albums.
Basically, the emphasis shifts from the "effects" to the songwriting itself.
The problem, of course, is that they are not such great songwriters.
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