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Rating: I was in the car and couldn't remember which CD I had put as the seventh. It was a strange band, reminiscent of PJ Harvey in the style of the excellent latest "Stories From The City...", but the voice was different.
I had often heard them on Rock FM and track number 7 was their hit single.
A really nice album with an ancient yet different flavor, that subtle thread of widespread melancholy that paradoxically keeps you company. But who were they, I kept asking myself? I found sounds from Catherine Wheel ("Krank") and something from Slowdive, but with more zest.
Nothing, darkness. I couldn't remember who they were.
A nice album, without a doubt, intense and light at the same time. You listened to it imagining rainy Irish landscapes or the cliffs of Normandy. That beautiful and healthy solitude that every man should be able to enjoy from time to time.
Couldn't remember even when pushed. I was biting my hands; I had filled the changer with all the things I had listened to little or not at all, to "catch up".
Then finally I got home and saw that the seventh empty cover stacked was by JJ72!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 October Swimmer ()
The dreams of dying mothers
I awoke, my insides shuddered
the greycoats of the infantry
victims looking for sympathy
and splash of october swimmers
the cheers of Helsinki winners
my barbed bones of futility
leeking marrow of ability
And I don't need anyone
and you don't need anyone
I want to be a happy boy
this means that you must employ my lies
when I want you
And I don't need anyone
I want to be a happy boy
this means that you must employ my lies
And I don't need anyone
and you don't need anyone
I want to be a happy boy
this means that you must employ my lies
when I want you
And I don't need anyone (3x)
02 Undercover Angel ()
I saw you in a river
of stardust and golden spray
was sent down by the good sun
it covered you and made you shine
An angel thats what you are
but this shining flower
knows it can sting
I know my mind is
taken over by this satellite
in the land of cloud
where you fell from
An angel that's what you are
but this shining flower
knows it can sting
Honesty it could destroy me
angel is worth the risk
of being sentenced by a pilate
to my dreamland cross
An angel that's what you are
but this shining flower
knows it can sting
I know my mind is
taken over by this satellite
in the land of cloud
where you fell from
An angel that's what you are
but this shining flower
knows it can sting
03 Oxygen ()
Short sleeves and warm skin
losing coins calling next of kin
dropping words about the city we're in
ponds compressed by heavy air
us without care just sprawling there
god's in our world
Airports and undergrounds
waiting to find the unfound
rising to pure insanity
here when you want me true love
has no simplicity
god's in our world
[Chorus: 2x]
You and I
we're going so high
the air is getting thin
but our land does not breathe in
we don't need oxygen
it's dreams that binds us and locks us in
the rest are impaled by sense
07 Snow ()
People go dancing
in crowded rooms
my head is getting tired
darkness looms
children going cursing
at their only cause
[Chorus:]
Why won't it snow
like they said it would
what is it that they know
that I really should
I check my look in the mirror
it don't glow
my face is getting thinner
darkness shows
children going cursing
at their only cause
[Chorus 2x]
08 Broken Down ()
Pasta machine broke down
by the weed in the field
I get so nice
when I see angels face
I will sip the wine
of the tears you cry
feel for me
sympathy
the kind that we all need
Crimson handed fiend
of hate strokes the soul of all
saints cannot flee
the strength of the call
we just carry on
as if we know all that is wrong
Feel for me
sympathy
the kind that we all need
Placid perspective straight
losing hope postponing fate
synchronise incarcerate
let them eat I can hate
'Cos I can say nothing new
despite the doves that flew
Feel for me
sympathy
the kind that we all need
Crimson handed fiend
of hate strokes the soul of all
saints cannot flee
the strength of the call
we just carry on
as if we know all that is wrong
Feel for me
sympathy
the kind that we all need
10 Not Like You ()
Wrap me up in confidence
break it down when it suits you
always separate
no matter what happens
Always needing more
never content
that's me no capacity
for complete generosity
Not like you
possibly
please love me
sincerely
Claim you believe it's true
the story could have confused you
maybe I was wrong
maybe you were strong
Take it out on me
I will fight with thee
because I need things to
go wrong when they are right
Not like you
possibly
please love me
sincerely
Wrap me up in confidence
break it down when it suits you
always separate
no matter what happens
Always needing more
never content
that's me no capacity
for complete generosity
Not like you
possibly
please love me
sincerely
11 Algeria ()
Escaping contamination
is a difficult
operation
I need some hibernation
hide me from the evil
protect me from the vultures
The men and the women
drink and make children
they need some hibernation
to hide them
from the evil
protect them from the vultures
guide me through the colours
Spring it dies
summmer arrives
summer dies
autumn arrives
autumn dies
winter arrives
forever and ever
ever and ever
I need this hibernation
to stray with deviation
to gather some information
hide me from the evil
protect me from the vultures
guide me through the colours
Spring it dies
summer arrives
summer dies
autumn arrives
autumn dies
winter arrives
forever and ever
ever and ever
ever and ever
Spring it dies
summmer arrives
summer dies
autumn arrives
autumn dies
winter arrives
spring it dies
summmer arrives
summer dies
autumn arrives
autumn dies
winter arrives
forever
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