luciano

I would try to analyze the Chemical Brothers' germmogli in parallel (in this I agree with Borgato), which remind me of tracks like Fun Gallery, Hell, Women Beat Their Men, and, mind you, Breath. I haven't listened to the last one and I'll try to get it soon, but I haven't been able to turn this work around in the right way to unveil it (yes, I am passionate about geometry!). That's why I was telling you that I find them original, and achieving this requires effort. After listening to it to exhaustion, I can tell you that its main limitation (and we agree that it is limited) is, in my opinion, inherent in the nature of a "collection of exercises" it denotes: if in "dig your own hole" the Chemical Brothers gift us a true suite between "electrobank" and "piku," "Hitching..." presents itself to me as a binder where notes and study exercises have been inserted. But hip hop, dear Joser, aside from Ari-Up's contribution (but why don't they go by their full name?), for Mongril and Equal Rights, I don't really see it much :-) Bye.

2) (which is related to point 1) they are original. And being original, finding combinations of sounds that haven't been used before, is truly a feat; they manage it. The work is meticulously studied, listen to Sublime (track04), what do you find blended in there? The base is hip-hop with a nod to ragamuffin, yes, but the result is not hip-hop at all; the sound that can be more closely associated is slow techno, yet it barely brushes against Trip-hop, which is where it would have naturally led if it had followed a canonical path. What is hip-hop about "Goodbye the Ferrari"? Marco Borgato (Rockwawe) places it at the highest point; for me, there's room for discussion on this, but if that's the case, don't you think that hip-hop is, among many, the component that distinguishes them?

Look, I'm not personally fond of their music, just as I don't like many things among those I listen to "to study them". However, these are, among many, unique in their genre. 1) First of all, their genre has a name, and it would be good if the zori who run the site included it in their list (I, who am intolerant of classifications :-): ELECTROCLASH. Be careful, this is not a movement, like Bristol Sound is a movement of Trip-Hop or (new) Lounge, which is a movement perhaps straddling Nu-Jazz and New Wave, but still a movement. These are super tough; they start from Kraftwerk, contaminated with a couple of decades in between, but they start, mind you "start from", not "reconnect to".

... "Starfish"...

great review, in tune with the style of the site. I disagree with a couple of things; after all, I think it's a Pop Brit project that draws from Glam just as Lenny Kravitz drew from Blues-Rock around the '60s and '70s, but that doesn't mean I won't give you a 5. The CD is very well-crafted, in the details, almost subsonic, and it's also catchy, but I don’t find it original at all; at times it even falls flat (Morning Bird, Old Dirt Farmer), time will relegate it worse than "Sterfish" by "the Church." Hasta Luego.

:-)) Hey Rivo, what are you doing, giving yourself a rating for your review? IN RIVO YOU'RE THE BEST - GIVE ME THE HELMET WITH YOUR AUTOGRAPH!

Excellent review. I extend my sincerest compliments to you. Now I’m going to change the ratings I gave earlier, lowering them by one point :-) I could spend an afternoon choosing between the 2 or 3 stars for the CD; it's somewhere in the middle, leaning more towards the 2 I gave to 50 Cent, but below the 3 for the Cranes (which, by the standards used here, could easily deserve at least a 4). 2 for the sounds, which are elementary, and whose style I believe is the real limit of this CD, rather than what you highlight in the review; 3 for the studio work and research that the guys have put into this project, which comes through clearly upon listening. Let’s put it this way: now it has 3, I give it 2, and roughly we're even. One last note: how sad that on this site of ignoramuses, something original gets a yearly score.

What does "bleach" mean? Can't you express yourself? Can't you construct a sentence? Don't you know what to think because you're not used to thinking? And then, what sense does it make to judge a review if you haven't listened to the CD? What would you have written? And why don't you sign your name, what value does your comment have if you don't make yourself known? Do you perhaps think that others, I in particular, could retaliate against a negative criticism with who knows what repercussions? Oh, sorry, I forgot that you're struggling to think.

:-)) let’s make them work a bit, these dwarfs…

Wow, a 5 even, thank you Modena, you’re making me blush :-)