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Rating: If you happen to find yourself at the top of Park Guell in Barcelona, looking out over the city splendidly nestled between the sea and hills with three CDs in hand ("Deftones" by Deftones, "Noah's Ark" by Cocorosie, and "Scary World Theory" by Lali Puna), do not hesitate to insert the third one into your player. Valerie's voice will dig deep into you without any escape.
If it's your first time listening to this CD, do not start with the first song, "Nin-Com-Pop," although it's beautiful and engaging, but with "Don't Think," whose enveloping loops can certainly be regarded as the manifesto of this small electronic masterpiece. Then let your listening flow through "Scary World Theory," the title track, and you will taste the group's cold detachment and grandeur, starkly framed in the frost-scened opening of Paolo Sorrentino's "Le Conseguenze Dell'Amore." Continue with the rhythmic urgency of "Middle Curse," perfectly paired with the barely whispered vocals, and head towards "50 Faces Of," the album's hardest track that recalls "Maxinquaye" by the brilliant Tricky with its opening drumbeats and constant pounding rhythm. End your exploration in the ethereal and dissolving world of Lali Puna with "Come On Home" and "Satur-Nine," which close the album expressing their ancestral minimalist vein, a legacy of the unmistakable German music scene. Two tracks that, with their samples, recall the disarming coldness of Autechre's "Draft 7.30."
At the end of your fragmented, deferred, and anticipated listening compared to the tracklist, you'll realize you’ve taken a beautiful journey within your psyche because this is an album that puts you in the right psychophysical conditions to reflect and, above all, imagine.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Nin-Com-Pop (04:37)
There was no reason to complain
it's all been candy cream
neatly, smooth and clean forever
The battle seemed so far away
she never felt the pain
but then one day it came a little
Yet things happend just that way
realize your fate
shut it down, increase the pressure
There was no reason to complain
it's all been candy cream
neatly, smooth and clean forever
02 Middle Curse (03:36)
Quit your jobs
Don't cross you fingers
Don't work for people
You can't trust
Quit their money
Leave their places
Slam the door and
Don't look back
You've been here so long
Don't take the middle curse
Don't hesitate, it's overdue
Suit or revolt, it's up to you
03 Bi-Pet (03:12)
Born
Bored
Discovered
All the things we do are pin-up sweet
Born
Bought
Discouraged
All the things we do are pin-up sweet
In between we're recorders
In between we try
04 Contratempo (04:25)
Coisas que acontecem no contratempo
Não se sujeitam ao consenso
Ficam no fundo
Enquanto o resíduo perece
Sabedorias feitas na manga
Servem ao estado presente
Ficam distinto(s)
Enquanto a maioria embarga
Se a relação do contratempo
E do tempo presente
Assimilarem
Não se precisava de viagens cosmonáuticas
As teorias seriam atendidas
Mas a inteligência limita a autonomia humana
05 Lowdown (03:56)
We should know you then
We know your ways, your sorrows
We will take you in
We care if you will fail
You could know better
You should know all this
We would soothe you then
We should believe in wonder
We should know you then
We know your ways, your sorrows
You could know better
You should know all this
06 Scary World Theory (04:43)
I've never said you'll have to
be afraid
of the cookie monster
beside your bed
It's not the real
The real one's in your head
Beyond control
The true one cuts you dead
It's a real fight
It's a war
When destruction takes over
There is no escape
Every shot on target
Perpetrator knows how to strike
08 Don't Think (03:57)
Don't think
I'm too slow for you talking
So quick your mouth moves
Can't think
As I am answering your questions
But you won't listen anyway
I could be mute
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