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Last night I slept very little; I suffer from suffocating heat and I'm quite used to it by now.
But the bad rest was somehow brightened because, in those few moments when I entered the R.E.M. phase (oh, look at that, what I managed to cite!!), I dreamed about Steve Wynn.
To my agitated questions, he responded with his calmness, with his gentlemanliness that I have been able to appreciate and love for so many decades. He told me he's putting together a new Dream Syndicate album and that more or less in his endless career, he has now reached the beauty of five hundred songs written by his own hand.
Because we care a lot about Steve.
As I just mentioned above, what struck me most in the dream was the calmness of the Los Angeles boy.
And so upon waking up, I had a great desire to listen to Static Transmission, which opens with the sweet meditative ballad of "What Comes After."
He's supported by Jason Victor, Dave DeCastro, his partner Linda Pitmon, and his trusted friend Chris Cacavas.
A work that confirms the excellent vein of the period, we're in 2003, of Steve, who almost manages to replicate the absolute excellence of the previous Here Come The Miracles (his best post-Syndicate work without a doubt).
The melodic and nocturnal "The Ambassador Of Soul"; the noisy "Candy Machine" with an ascending finale that recalls the youthful and fiery beginnings.
The sunny, but approaching sunset, soul of "Maybe Tomorrow," which a certain Mr. Zimmerman from Duluth would like; the dense blues of "Keep It Clean," which reminds me both in singing and in musical flow of the best The The by Matt Johnson.
A well-made, well-executed, well-played album.
Which finally benefits from the presence of over six minutes of a thrilling "Amphetamine": quite simply "The Days of Wine and Roses" twenty years later. And here the whole band floors the accelerator with those guitars so tight, so noisy that they jeopardize the safety of the strings themselves. A concentration of auditory feedback as only the good Steve is capable of putting together.
If we're not at five stars, we're very close.
But I'll place five stars regardless...CALIFORNIA STYLE...
That's all.
Ad Maiora.
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