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...This is therefore a middle ground :) @ Psycho (and I take this opportunity to say it in general): absolutely right, and you are spot on. I wanted to write a review of this kind because I believe that nowadays, and it’s a trend also present on De-Baser, the attention to the content of what we listen to is very low, or at least that’s how it appears. If we take 90% of the reviews on Debaser for albums in languages other than Italian, the analysis is almost entirely (and I would even remove the "almost") focused on the music. It’s obvious that it is right to give greater importance to the musical element; after all, we know well how many authors express form and content solely through music (and why not, among them the Faust, even if their music isn’t instrumental tout court), but to ignore, as almost always happens, the ideal inspirations that emerge from the lyrics of the considered musical pieces seems almost criminal to me. The Faust carry their inspiration in their name, and those few words they use aren’t thrown together at random (the epilogue of "Miss Fortune" is illuminating, as mentioned, and underlined by Mario), yet nothing has ever been said about all this around here. With this review, I want to do a bit of justice to the textual element of an album, in a contemporary culture that often loves and cultivates authors solely for their music without really understanding much of what is being said.

Oh, how wonderful! Thanks to everyone, I’ll respond to the fascinating questions raised: first of all, to the nobody mentioned above, the author of an interesting comment I do not, however, share. The issue for me is subtle, but different: I don’t vulgarize high culture, but rather elevate low culture, as I allow myself to find Goethe in Faust and not the other way around! @ Cleo et non solum (but also): Faust IV, as ZiOn says, is, in every way, the most digestible. I won't deny that I like IV more than the first, but the merits of the latter, as an absolutely innovative element in the European landscape, allow it to surpass, if only slightly. Faust IV, becoming more focused on the song form, presents itself, with some of its extraordinary pieces ("Jennifer" and "Picnic..."), as much more approachable and easy to listen to. Highly recommended.

But who the hell is refereeing?

A simple and honest advertising operation at a time when the DM were missing (let's not forget that "Exciter" would be released three years later): I don't have it all, but I prefer the nineties period :D

Smuggler university, with a good part of the time sacrificed to the PC for reasons that should be academic...! Anyway, I wasn't saying that Friday night is reserved for revelry: remember that debeiser is full of stiff people, forty-somethings, laborers, and seniors, and after a week of work with an alarm at 6:30 AM, maybe Saturday morning is the time to catch up on some sleep! Then there are those who from Monday to Friday make the most of the office PC, then Saturday comes and it's vaffanculallavorodavantialmonitor, here’s another reason. And then they just keep whining for an entire week, I’d say a bit of respite is necessary, right?

It's the weekend, Jimbo, shaking off the Friday night slumbers, you know how it is... I'm not even at work yet, nor is Antonino, so just imagine ;)

Wasn't there a review for this album? Incrediiiible! Too bad it was such a sparse one :-/

Nice character. He looks like a henchman from The Godfather, old-style mafia, disappearances done properly.

But what are you saying? The gift of conciseness is not something that can be measured by the average: you can demonstrate it with just one piece of writing, making your presence known with a single work. A GIFT is a GIFT, it’s not a TREND. And I’m not using incomprehensible jargon. It’s nonsensical to argue that my refined Italian "stumbles" the moment I use obscure words: nothing stumbles, it’s just those who don’t understand, who 95% of the time, to avoid looking bad, don’t say anything. Go read the comments, only a couple of times has anyone pointed out that they were annoyed by the jargon. And a couple of times in 30 reviews seems quite little to me. Absolutely fallacious reasoning, damn, irregular goal. 3-3

And I have the gift of conciseness. You have never written so little. Verbose man who revels in Italian, you bewilder me. 3 to 2, I would say.