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Rating: Here are the Baustelle, here is the talent that makes its way in spite of our envy and our amazement. I would start by giving a high rating to this 4th album they titled: AMEN. I give it a solid 8+, which means that the band is excellent, the album enjoyable, stimulating, and intelligent but not perfect. What leaves me puzzled is the considerable presence of macabre ideas. The thought of death is everywhere: passing, murder, suicide, cannibalism, betrayal, depression, “Beyond”, God, Hell, Satan… an orgy of negative ideas cheerfully sung against a “yeye” backdrop and on rhythms fundamentally traceable to the “dada um pa”.
We are the people of the surf who scratch our balls to avoid the aura of bad luck that emanates from the Baustelle ensemble. But we can't help but listen to them. It's not enough. The cool band from Montepulciano is guilty of a second stain: the lyrics' metrics adapt to the music at any cost, even at the cost of violating accents in the manner of Max Pezzali. Some verses end with astonishing “lo vedò” instead of “lo vedo”, “comodò” instead of “comodo”, tuna in “scatolà” and “perderè”. There also appear amusing “indecifrabilè”, “invanò”, “tenetecì”, “chimicà”. I cannot list all the words they have
*RAPÈD TO ACHIEVÈ THEIR GOALì.*
However, it works and I, who have long awaited someone to artistically amaze me as the three can do, adopt them, follow them, choose them, want them, applaud them, and buy them. Out of 17 tracks, the only ones I do NOT feel like recommending are: "COLOMBO" and "DARK ROOM".
The rest is pulp to be eagerly bitten.
josè leaci
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By Andrea_Brindisi
If I said this album is a masterpiece it would be an exercise in style as if I criticized it.
These songs cannot be reviewed. They can only be recommended, gently, to be inhabited.
By tom traubert
Is it still possible in 2008, in this Italy, to take everyday reality, turn it into poetry, and put it all into a pop/folk song?
This album is here to say yes.
By Antropophagus
"Amen: a simple word that indicates a liturgical closure, a term that encompasses a thousand and one meanings."
"With 'Amen' we might all be able to understand at least a sixteenth of our current life and direct our hearts and souls in a single way out... A M E N."
By Frana77
"Amen," their fourth work, possibly travels on an even higher level, bordering (allow me to say) on perfection.
"Amen" is a heavily played record, using not only the canonical instruments but especially many strings and a brass section, making it symphonic, almost like a cinematic soundtrack.
By Nikki
The signing with the major label hasn’t benefited the Tuscan band, not due to alleged pressures from the label but simply because, during production, the larger budget available undermined their sense of moderation.
The mountain has given birth to the classic mouse.
