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Rating: What's up, what's up???
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that no reviews mentioned this album, so I told myself, why not.
It's not a novelty, quite the opposite. We're talking about 1995, a year at times messy, confused, dark, dirty, drawn-out, and capricious. Pouting while stamping its feet. This is how this album is (not immature because of this), which perfectly reflects the moment in which it was conceived, recorded, released.
Conceived, who knows... recorded and released, yes.
Not having listened to it when it first came out (in 1995 I was seven years old and not as enterprising as you who are reading and who have been listening to Red since you were five months old, and who could play it all by the time you were six months), has only increased my amazement. The first time I listened to it, I felt that pleasant feeling of disorientation, not being able to place it temporally increased its artistic value; the captivating opener (I STILL GET ROCKS OFF! I STILL GET ROCKS OFF! I STILL GET ROCKS OFF!) entices me to listen, and I imagine Kazu Makino singing her melancholy sometimes nodding her head like a child, other times conveying suffering with her throat, and I like it. I like the guitar patterns of Bean and Young Neil, I like Harmony, almost entirely instrumental and compelling. I like how music in minor is treated. I like the beginning of Violent Life, which anticipates what the renowned XX do throughout an album (with a few BPM less) just 14 years earlier.
Another trademark in my opinion: the lyrics. They are absolutely coherent with the background, dry, spewed out. But I'm sorry I can't put up a video to review, because it would be more natural for me, I would do it clumsily gesturing and muttering something, but maybe I would explain myself better. "AFBAFB...mmMMMMCE!!! AGBWO'!" It's complicated!
Very nice, this second album by Blonde Redhead. Belated congratulations.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
06 Down Under (04:09)
Smaller, smaller he's so still
Which one is gonna make it make it to the madness
You are right for me protect me from what I want
I'm trying not to repeat myself
Down Under
Down Under
Down Under
Down Under
Smaller, smaller he's so stick
Which one is gonna make it make it to the madness
Since I'm far from you I did know, I didn't know
I want to keep myself to myself
Now, I know Now,
I know Down Under
Down Under .....
Down Under
Down Under
Down Under
Down Under
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