McLusky
The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire

THE REVIEW

Anyone who listened to McLusky Do Dallas in 2002 couldn't help but be blown away. And those who haven't listened to it should do so as soon as possible.

But now it's time to talk about this—anticipated—follow-up. The expectations were high, the hopes conflicting. And the test is passed with flying colors.

Put the CD in the player and enjoy the initial surge of «Without Msg. I Am Nothing», with that obsessive and bastard chorus angrily declaring «Everywhere I look is a darkness, darkness». «That Man Will Not Hang», the launch single, rests entirely on a simple bass line, with piercing guitar incursions in the chorus. «She Only Bring You Happiness» is a great damn pop song, good enough even to play on MTV, if desired (but which pop song says «Our old singer is a sex criminal»?). And so on, moving through the blind fury of «Kkkktichens, What Were You Thinking», «Icarus Smicarus» («get out of those shoes and grow wings!»), «Lucky Jim», «1956 And All That» («Your son looks like Michael Jackson!»), «Falco vs. The Young Canoeist» (a captivating post-punk raid) and other tracks that instead experiment with new solutions, like the trumpet inserts in «Forget About Him, I’m Mint» and the soft-loud/full-empty alternations in the mad «Slay!» and the closing «Support Sistems».

In general, the lyrics demonstrate progress, which includes the striking irony of the previous album but enriches it with more existential, more pessimistic reflections. The eloquence is still brash, genius, unsettling, this time serving a depiction of a world slipping towards the abyss - «I get my msg. / from digital tv, / good consumer...»

An album that retains but does not stop, indeed that moves forward in compactness, maturity, solidity. Masterpiece.