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among the best teen movies ever made, criticism is what it is, we’re certainly not talking about Bergman. If only they could make teen movies (or rather for all ages) of this level... a piece of childhood.

very beautiful! Sincere, atmospheric album, but also a bit rough. In my opinion, Anathema will really take off and find their dimension with a more rock sound, namely in alternative 4, anyway it's a great record!

the same impression as dreamwarrior, they always walk on that razor's edge that risks bringing them close to a certain "tacky" sound; for this reason, even though I quite appreciate this album (full of beautiful melodies), I'm certainly not crazy about it. They are still Germans, and even if they are skilled, AOR is a genre that only Americans (or at most Canadians) can express in all its potential. Europeans, when they delve into the genre, often make a mess or seem forced in their sounds...

I will never understand the criticisms regarding the lack of originality of Interpol. Rock has often been, more than anything else, an original and personal reinterpretation of already established sounds that are far from being original. I'm sure the people who criticize Interpol for their lack of originality would have done the same in the '60s with The Rolling Stones and many other bands ("Come on, their majestic is a copy of Sgt. Pepper's... can't you see their riffs are copied from the blues and they just add a bit of rock 'n' roll energy? So trendy... listen to the real blues and stop complaining about mediocre bands like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones"). Let’s cut it out; this is a beautiful album. More music, less bullshit!

I agree with Poletti, the historical songs are not lacking in this album, the lyrics are already of high level, but the real musical turning point, the completeness, the musical immortality will only be achieved when he starts to pick up the electric guitar (more or less with bringin it all back home, for me his first true masterpiece). But I won't give him less than 4!

It's not a matter of better or worse; in Italian TV, the state of musical discourse is at an incredibly and astonishingly backward level. Just think that often RAI, which should provide public service, allows people with abyssal ignorance to discuss cinema and music. I won't name names, but I think many have understood. This has always been the case, partly due to the rise and monopoly that certain famous DJs had in the past.
X-Factor is far from being an excellent program, yet strangely, thanks mainly to Morgan (who has also got angry with the record labels that manage the program on live TV and criticized many songs that the labels forced singers to perform), it features songs by Pink Floyd, post-Rubber Soul Beatles, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder (the one from the '70s), which seems like a significant step forward. Because any other program would never have dreamed of featuring, say, "Sunday Morning" by the Velvet Underground, as X-Factor did (you realize they certainly couldn't propose "Heroin") instead of the usual pop singer with a nice butt and nice breasts who within a few months or at most a year will end up forgotten. In a vulgar, base, and ignorant Italian TV landscape, X-Factor is currently the best that a musical program can offer.
Never accept the lesser evil, but disparaging a program like this by comparing it to the circus of De Filippi or to Big Brother is nevertheless unfair and lacking objectivity.

a great masterpiece, not immediately accessible, requires several listens, but once absorbed, it perhaps becomes his most beautiful album along with frek out!

a great cd, the first part is a masterpiece, the second says little and repeats (as the reviewer himself said) what had already been widely heard in the first part, for this reason, it deserves, in my opinion, a generous 4, actually a 4.5!