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Rating: (as you can see, these days I have nothing to do and I'm flooding the site with reviews... sorry)
The second album by jj72 is beautiful. It’s beautiful primarily because it has many more diverse sounds compared to the previous work; it’s still an album teetering between gothic and romantic that takes you on a mental journey just like the first one. The difference is that in this album everything is more pronounced: if in the first, the songs were just sad but well constructed, here they bring you to the brink of suicide, also thanks to the never "sunny" sounds, not even in the more lively tracks (but this does not mean that the compositions are not valid, on the contrary).
It's true, they resemble Placebo and Smashing Pumpkins, but by now everyone resembles everyone else, and if we were to base ourselves on this consideration, a good rock album would never receive the fateful 5/5.
The best songs on the album are "Sinking" and "7th Wave" where the morbid presence of dark atmospheres touches psychedelia (but without exaggeration) with infinitely repeated rhythms and bass lines worthy of the best Simon Jones (in the good old days).
Only downside: the bassist has recently left the band (this has absolutely nothing to do with the album, but I think it's a disappointment for all the guys).
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Formulae (04:13)
Things go wrong when I trust them
In my naive way I love them
Like you told me to love them
I abide by man made rules
And am a picture of all fools
I have a border of white clues
I use the formulae of everyday
In the floods I stay and get washed away
People talk in nothing
With a reverence in a something
And my heart beats on with indifference
To the lessons of attrition
I am a picture of all fools
I have a border of white clues
I use the formulae of everyday
In the floods I stay and get washed away
formulae of everyday
In the floods I stay and get washed away
04 Serpent Sky (03:18)
Seasons don't change
They just glide through my eyes
Like a serpent in the sky,
Tempestuous love passing me by
Singing ahhh...
Infinity of space
It destroys this special place
Of momentary bliss
It's the thorn in a kiss
Singing ahhh...
Sadness and you have become my perfect two
In a world I divide what is good and what I do
Singing ahhh...
Seasons don't change
They just glide through my eyes
Like a serpent in the sky,
Tempestuous love passing me by
Singing ahhh...
09 Half Three (04:27)
At three in the morning
the moonlight was breaking, breaking down
Oh, the heartache it glistened
As angels want to listen as people drown
She said this will not suffice, it's not enough
She said you will not suffice, you're not enough
As I looked at the beauty
And struggled with the duty of being wrong
She said look at my beauty
And struggle with the duty of being wrong
She said this will not suffice, it's not enough
She said you will not suffice, you're not enough
I need to touch your face, to feel your grace
It's my epiphany
I need to touch her face, to be embraced
Be my epiphany
All these words with no reasons
Effect me like millions of burning stars
And the shapes that we're seeing
The things that we're being are a step too far
She said this will not suffice it's not enough
She said you will not suffice you're not enough
I need to touch her face, to feel her grace
My epiphany
I need to touch her face, to be embraced
Be my epiphany
The veils of blue and fields of grain
For all the time I'll have to say
I need to touch your face, to feel your grace
My epiphany
I need to touch her face, to be embraced
Be my epiphany
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