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Well! What can I say... it's been twelve years since I last listened to it, so I only have memories, even though I played it on repeat the year it came out. I don't really recall all this dance rhythm. And it wasn't even that pop. The pop turn was "Ocean rain." Here the atmosphere is still dark, closed off, icy like the cover. And a title like "The back of love" says it all. Sure, compared to Joy and Cure, but they've never been dark; they've always had a psychedelic/pop California/Beatles element.

A brave review, well-written, but unfortunately full of bullshit and clichés. Sorry. I hope you reach 50 and make an album like this. The only alternative is to stop playing.

I completely agree with Super's first post. I'm sorry, I haven't read the others, but that one says it all. I'm sorry Cap, but this time you missed the mark a bit.

First of all, welcome and great choice to start with. There are a few too many references to Metallica in the review; I don't think they were influenced much by Blue Cheer. And anyway, they can't even lace up their shoes. The only worthy heirs might be the early Mudhoney, the mid-era Miracle Workers, and, for their lysergic attitude at times, Kyuss. The cover of "Satisfaction" alone is worth the price of the ticket, the best in history alongside those by Bjork and PJ. I go against the grain of rock history and say that I prefer it to the first one, mainly due to the choice of tracks, as the sound of Vincebus is hard to surpass.

@Kosno: always available :-)

Of course the world is beautiful because it's varied: for pistolpete too much emphasis, for cofras I underestimate them. Gentlemen, it doesn't seem to me that my Italian is that difficult to understand. Anyway, you can refer to the stellette.

@Ole, go ahead and have fun :-). I didn't break it down into points because I'm old, losing my mind, and can’t remember anything. On one hand, I wanted to make a comparison with the BJM album, which, as I mention in the review, is sort of a compendium of their work; on the other hand, I felt "forced" to start off with a didactic introduction because, of these, out of ten albums made, there was only one in the database. Finally, learn to go to concerts by yourself, you brute, with just one t, mona :-).

Good evening, first of all, thank you everyone for coming to see me. In particular @Mary, thanks, "Minchia, what a great review!" No one had told me that until now. If we ever meet, I trust I’ll get a "Minchia, what a reviewer!":-) @Easy, I’m sorry, but like Lewis, I have a weakness for feedback, so I will always enjoy @Porpulan: there are few acoustic moments (it seems to me only in four tracks out of thirteen) and a few Byrds, often a wall of feedback understood as a continuous background hum, not at the levels of MBV or JAMC, the voice is latent, often in reverse, a lot of little noises and loops, in short, it seems to me like psychedelia that's not very pop or commercial, even if there’s one track that’s very Dandy Warhols, but over the length, I don’t think it can sell hundreds of thousands of copies. Maybe some "Loop," do you remember them?, with less distortion? @Vivis: deceiving you and confusing you is a pleasure:-)

I’m just sixty km above Verona. Unfortunately, I couldn’t drink because I was driving. Faust, Faust, I’ll think about it (they say they also influenced the latest Radiohead). What I wanted to say, it’s hard to find the words because they left me speechless, is that I found them to be especially modern, meaning absolutely in tune with the times, in fact ahead, ultimately classics. Sorry for the rambling. Too bad you published the review so quickly, my friend Giuly took a ton of photos; she says they’re ugly, but the one she sent me this morning of Succi is really nice, I would have forwarded it to you. Next time we’ll touch base first :-)

First of all, you get an insult for not telling me you would go. As I already mentioned in the Super review, we could have crossed our ugly mugs! I couldn't suppose you would make all those kilometers, and just for the dedication, you deserve five. Also, thank you for sparing me the review, I risked becoming its hagiographer. My feelings were a bit different from yours, aside from having experienced a wonderful concert. Briefly: I didn't think of Germany, but rather of the blues, the countryside, the Coen brothers. Certain Slint-like moments, previously absent in the Bachi, seem to enrich them. And then, ultimately, this observation: I don't know Jason Molina, but the clash/comparison seemed to deem the Bachi the winners in the end, albeit enriched by a second guitar. This is just to state this unnameable truth: it rarely happens that an Italian band can stand on par with Anglophone music. The Bachi perform the miracle, and for that alone we should be grateful to them (nb, it's not national pride, just an observation). P.S. Did it also seem to you that most of the Bachi's tracks were those ready for the upcoming third album, and that they also played a couple of things from Madrigali Magri?