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Italian punk often suffers from many flaws, one of which is the tendency to draw from long-established foreign models that lack interest. This musical genre is certainly not expected to propose something radically new. I am content with fun, credibility, and the desire to play!
All of this can be found in "Bambole di pezza" and that's no small feat.
Moreover, as you might have already guessed, this is a band of girls (bad girls?), and anyone who is not immune to female charm cannot ignore Ary's beautiful voice, the all-female but always gritty and seductive lyrics, and finally a stage presence that can only be hinted at on the record but is by no means secondary.
To clearly understand the genre proposed by the group, one might play the fun, macho game of associating each song with a reference to a counterpart male group... let's see: "Le streghe" reminds of Pornoriviste, "Peace & Love" is reminiscent of Punkreas, "Stato puro d'odio" recalls Derozer.
However, there is also the embryo of an interesting compositional exploration with a future-oriented key: the acoustic "Be in your mind," "Crash me" with a truly well-done bass and voice intro, and especially "Squarci d'immagine," halfway between Afterhours and the more electric Diaframma. If at least half of the tracks had this freshness, the rating would have been better.
"Se vuoi puoi possedermi, ma poi lo sai che sarò io ad averti?..." Shall we take the risk?
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