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Today I feel like tranquility, I want to be lulled only by the summer and the soft notes of a record like this one: delicate, intimate, and so innocently young like its authors.
It's summer, but it's not the crowded season on the coast: it's the summer of a morning walk in the woods behind the house, it's the summer of an evening stroll or a scuffle (or collutazione=Riot) in the middle of a deserted road.
Deserted road, yet filled with the intense scent of the '70s (Love Is No Big Truth, of South America (Misread, a wonderful single or Live Song) or simply the sense of loss that a Scandinavian landscape can evoke (Cayman Islands).
Everything seems to be pure magic in the unfolding of a highly successful comedy among acoustic guitars, strings, soft voices, and some brass appearances: the success of the show is guaranteed whether the audience watches it sitting on a rock (Homesick), at the counter of a nightclub (I'd Rather Dance With You), or simply at the head of their emotions swallowed by the armchair at home.
With eyes half-closed, it almost seems possible to recognize some familiar voices (Simon & Garfunkel above all in Surprise Ice) forgetting for a moment that the authors of these twelve tracks are two shy boys from Northern Europe with unlikely names more fitting for Tolkien characters than musicians.
Space-time perdition, crepuscular catharsis, it almost feels like reliving the same emotions experienced a few years ago after listening to the record of another duo called Turin Brakes: back then, I was amazed by their skill, just like today, a beautiful summer day.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Homesick (03:16)
I lose some sales and my boss won't be happy
But I can't stop listening to the sound
Of two soft voices mended in perfection
From the reels of this record that I found
Everyday there's a boy in the mirror
Asking me what are you doing here
Finding all my previous motives
Growing increasingly unclear
I've travelled far and I've burned all the bridges
I believed as soon as I hit land
All the other options held before me
Will wither in the light of my plan
So I loose some sales and my boss won't be happy
But there's only one thing on my mind
Searching boxes underneath the counter
On a chance that on a tape I'd find
A song for
Someone who needs somewhere
To long for
Homesick
Cause I no longer know
What home is
02 Misread (03:11)
If you wanna be my friend
You want us to get along
Please do not expect me to
Wrap it up and keep it there
The observation I am doing could
Easily be understood
As cynical demeanour
But one of us misread...
And what do you know
It happened again
A friend is not a means
You utilize to get somewhere
Somehow I didn't notice
friendship is an end
What do you know
It happened again
How come no-one told me
All throughout history
The loneliest people
Were the ones who always spoke the truth
The ones who made a difference
By withstanding the indifference
I guess it's up to me now
Should I take that risk or just smile?
What do you know
It happened again
What do you know
10 Surprise Ice (04:26)
When past sometimes takes you with soft hands
forcelessly pulls you to your chair
hides you away from these half days
sunless at the end of the year
the air is like a knife cutting through you
a room in the house is always warm
stretched out on the bathroom floor thinking
of fair days your future may hold
love comes like surprise ice on the water
love comes like surprise ice at dawn
love comes like surprise ice on the water
love comes at dawn
deprived of the light and of the colours
the world ends at your window tree
darkness creates these illusions
but pale days can teach you to see
rain falls but no life is given
weeks pass no progress is made
past sometimes takes you with soft hands
and all that surrounds you will fade
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