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Rating: Some bands, despite not achieving the commercial success they deserved, have contributed to defining a genre and showcased an important and recognizable sonic identity.
This is exactly the case with the British Sea Power, who with this new work hit one of the best albums of this ongoing 2017. The chosen title, "Let The Dancers Inherit The Party," is a nod to the poetry collection "The Dancers Inherit The Party," published in 1960 by Scottish writer Ian Finley Hamilton.
Tenth work released in 14 years of a very honorable career, this new album is perhaps the most accessible of the English sextet's career, as the three singles chosen for promotion had already made clear.
"Bad Bohemian" is perhaps the most radio-friendly of the three, but "Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)" also showcases a usability never heard before in the band's sound. New Order and Joy Division (as well as the best Cure) remain solid points in the proposed sound fabric, but here they are processed in a more direct and linear form compared to the past.
The album overflows with tracks that now denote a dazzling ease of writing ("International Space Station," "Saint Jerome," the gem "Don’t Let The Sun Get In The Way"), now an incredible taste in the intertwining of guitars, keyboards, and (often) strings in the arrangements (the third extract "Electrical Kittens" is a shining example). There is no shortage of grim and more expansive atmospheres, as in the heavenly ballad "Praise For Whatever."
The British Sea Power remain one of the best-kept secrets of contemporary British rock, a band that through its music continues to seek the perfect synthesis between the various souls of the best English rock of the last thirty years.
The journey will probably remain the same (excellent critical feedback, poor sales feedback), but as long as the average quality of the offering is this, probably, indeed certainly, the game is absolutely worth the candle.
Best track: International Space Station
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