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Rating: ...and in these rooms one screams / and a thud stitches the skin open / a glacial shiver rises from below / I disappear / I am no more / you are no more...
The absolute masterpiece of Marlene Kuntz.
It is just their second album, but it is the best of all.
Not just "Ape regina", each track deserves its own review. "Il Vile", a piece about the transience of life, "Retrattile", a somewhat relentless and disgusted chronicle of everyone's entry into the world of "adults" (parassitare per la nuova dignità / è un surrogato delle andate vanità / così disponi e sei esplicito col bèige / che non ti dona ma ti spara via dai guai), "3 di 3" (a tale of a disgusting sexual triangle), "Cenere" (perhaps about a childhood sexual experience?), "L'agguato" (a chronicle of a fatal road accident)... one could go on for hours.
The sound is not just simple rattling rock, there is something different that, for those who know them, distinguishes only Marlene. An unrivaled and unmatched album. Just "Ape regina" alone is worth the purchase, but the album is full of gems: not a single song excluded.
"Il vile" has an obsessive guitar riff, a simple and hypnotic piece, "L'esangue Deborah" is the sweetest piece of the album despite the irony that permeates it; "Ti giro intorno" is a very original piece, the images it evokes change continuously. When I listen to it, almost at the conclusion of the CD, I feel that it interprets what the listener feels for the album: bastano i prodigi che tu sei / contano i sapori che mi dai / io ti giro intorno e ingoio fremiti / io ti giro intorno senza limiti...
In "Il vile" the M.K. song form has assumed for the first time the perfect form that we all now know.
An album without flaws, solid, in one word: indispensable.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
05 Come stavamo ieri (04:46)
Quanto fa male lavorare
al male che compare a causa dei
miei vuoti d'anima
Sento l'inutilita' obbligata
delle scuse solite:
il mio costume, la tua rabbia su di me
Come stavamo ieri...
sara' cosi' domani?
Dimmi di si
Quanto fa male ritornare
al gelo dei sorrisi uccisi
dalle nostre lacrime
Quanto fa male devastare
gli argini del nostro scorrere:
la terra e' fradicia anche al sole oramai
Come stavamo ieri...
sara' cosi' domani?
Dimmi di si
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By loureedo
"Il Vile is so perfect that I believe it created problems for Marlene Kuntz themselves, unjustly obliged to repeat the unrepeatable."
"A record narrated and explained in the very lyrics of the songs composing it, within which we find pieces explaining the raw why of this work."
By dellas
"Il Vile is an album tough, hard to penetrate and understand, steeped in physical pain and an apparently incurable existential unease."
"'Ape regina' is undoubtedly the apex of the parable and the masterpiece of the album, an intensely deep song difficult to interpret."
By andrea biacca
"Il vile" is an album electric, noise at extreme levels, sweet and bitter, relentless to the extreme.
I believe few songs manage to convey such strong emotions as 'Ape Regina'; a queen bee buzzing ready to sting, surrounded by a pulsating bass and a drum heartbeat.
By lucarandi80
Marlene Kuntz recorded "Il Vile" in 1996... consolidating a completely personal and unmistakable style.
"Il Vile" is a cultured album, a true masterpiece of refined poetry, yet it remains a rock album, imbued with anger, aggressiveness, pride, and expressive urgency.
By ragzzoeroe
At my first listen, I was unprepared and taken aback as if I were being unexpectedly questioned about literature and had never opened a book.
I advise you not to give up after the first few listens.
