Hot Sunday Blood
Someone Left Behind

LA RECENSIONE

Let's put it this way: the artwork doesn't make the monk, or rather, it doesn't make the rocker. Yes, because surely presenting oneself with artwork like the one offered by Hot Sunday Blood, whether you like it or not, is not the right way to approach, but oh well. The reasons behind this choice are diverse, the main one concerns not shying away from the passage of time, carrying experiences and scars on one's skin. An inexorable passing of time that seems not to have affected the five musicians in question, musically influenced by the '90s grunge scene and, in some ways, "nostalgic" for what once was. The Turin combo in "Someone Left Behind" succeeds in the intent of bringing the listener back to the time when plaid shirts, ripped jeans, and long hair were all the rage, with people like Alice In Chains, Nirvana, and Stone Temple Pilots delivering style gems in what many today call alternative rock. A work in some ways dark, with a mood anything but sunny, one might say: in most of the tracks, decidedly sick guitar riffs are highlighted, which occasionally like to wander towards other shores such as stoner and heavy references. To all this, let's add a singer who was able to give even more emotional weight to the whole (endowed, moreover, with a very peculiar timbre in my opinion) and there you have "Someone Left Behind." Among the most successful episodes, I would mention "Running on my own" (perhaps the most "wild" track of the band and an example on which I would try to structure an artistic path for the future) and "Brain cage" for its being counter-trend compared to the remaining tracks present in the tracklist. In conclusion, Hot Sunday Blood is the classic band that if it had come out into the open about twenty years ago, it would surely have made its mark, nowadays for this type of proposal it is very difficult to emerge and surely they themselves would have noticed that. Artistically, it is still a hybrid project (a year and a half of life is certainly not enough to definitively define a line to follow) but it has within it some interesting ideas, especially when it tends to push towards more heavy-oriented territories.