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Rating: Jaco2604 arrived like a bolt from the blue to move us and make us reflect, and it is for him that this review is dedicated.
If good wine needs to decant, the same rule applies to records.
This album, almost 20 years later, sounds even more beautiful and precious.
I wonder how old our Jaco2604 was in 2006? I hope for him that he was doing everything except thinking about the dark wave rebound of the early century. Today Debaser is like this, life is like this. Parents swinging in the mind and children reviving vinyl records.
The beauty of this world lies precisely in the contradictions and the supposed confusion of roles that ultimately makes sense.
In my CD holder for physical and mental travels, almost undoubtedly, "Fear is on our side" by the Texans I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness rested quietly alongside "Turn on the Bright Lights" by Interpol and "The Back Room" by Editors.
I must admit I had never delved into it much until tonight. That "Fear is on our side" struck me like an arrow, feeling guilty?
Surely, yes! Between Freeze, Flight or Fight, I've always chosen the latter! Perhaps it's finally the time I begin to lay down my arms and look at fear with different eyes, or rather, the act of not having it. After all, it is one of the most ancestral things we have left.
If you listen to the album more than once, it becomes very light and goes down like an iced beer corrected with Steinegger. The impact hits about five minutes after you've finished it.
Loving darkness more than love is an attitude, an underlying thought present throughout the album, but also a goal, a choice. Solitude makes sense if chosen!
The depth of the lyrics is impressive, the theme is an inner journey in the exorcism of feelings towards something higher and stronger, the freedom to be obscure; musical analysis doesn't really belong to me.
If there is something authentic we can give our children, of which Jaco is a symbol, it is surely the passion for art, for beauty, and sublimation.
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