AlexPaterson

I log in for the first time in a decade just to say that to me, L'Apparenza still sucks big time. The only one among the whites. Now I'm logging out, see you in ten years.

Rhythmic disharmonies.
What the hell is that?

Saw them live last night: The guitarist with the blue eyes is a total babe, you know, "I’ll slam you against the wall" type. The drummer had such dark circles under his eyes, not even the guy from Liars could compete (Wonder why that is, the dark circles... always with the drummers). My boyfriend (who's a debaserian too) preferred the other guitarist. Yeah, he’s a cutie as well. The only one who seemed a bit lost was the third guitarist; maybe it was the lack of space, poor guy was stuck in the corner and couldn’t sway like the other two.
Considerations:
- Watching their hands, all three guitarists do the same things, so: splitting a guitar into three pedalboards and then three amps would have produced the same effect (Telluric, no doubt about it, but Merzbow is worse and the Earth did these things with guitars years ago. I mean, it’s nice and all. But can’t you learn to play a couple more stories on those damn guitars, right?).
- The bassist, like in almost all rock bands, gets no attention. But he wasn’t bad either... For me, he was on par with the second guitarist, for my boyfriend... wait, let me ask... yes, he says he’s on par with the guitarist he likes. But he thought the guy with blue eyes was terrible.
- They opened for Morkobot. The guitarists were definitely less hot, one had a bit of a belly, the other had the worst hairline in indie rock history. But the drummer is a dream. Why did he want to pull his shirt back? Anyway, as if to prove an old saying, they were ugly, yes, but really charming. And technically more prepared than Lento. The drummer was a machine, they would occasionally lose it but then would get back into the rhythm without much trouble. We barely noticed, they made so much noise.
We left wondering if the Macarena night would begin, but unfortunately, the venue manager didn’t listen to us. Even a couple of Jobim’s tunes would have fit.

No, it's... I just wanted to say that I've reconsidered this record. Divinity is beautiful, Galaxial Pharmaceutical is epic. It took me 6 years, but in the end, I've internalized it. And I really liked it.

Do your thing. I didn't like "L'apparenza" at all, while I loved "Don Giovanni," "La sposa Occidentale," and "CSAR." It's probably the lack of impact in the arrangements that makes me love it less; no wonder I loved the versions by the equiVoci project. Anyway: I don't believe Battisti was a genius; to summarize the characteristics that make the white albums different from the rest of Italian pop, he had to enlist the help of various (foreign) producers and Pasquale Panella. If he were a genius, he would have done everything himself. Or at least, it all depends on what you mean by the word genius.

But look: Scaruffi does it all the time :D Maybe because with all the stuff that gets reviewed on his site, he’ll end up listening to a bad album too, right? :P

Trust me, when I reviewed this album (94 Diskont by the way, not Systemisch), Scaruffi's ratings were between 4 and 5 :)

Great, so since my review was about an album deemed "trivial" and not about Popp's work in general, I believe the measured curses against Scaruffi are more than justified, don’t you think?

Just to clarify: Scaruffi is someone who often revises his reviews. He realizes he has said some nonsense, and then he corrects it. At the time of my review, he said crap and poop about the ovals; if today he says something different about Popp, good for him :)

I care about you, tato :)