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Rating: Let's cut to the chase. At track number three, Donna Sumeria.
An opening of claustrophobic disco-music with a growing rhythm, the bass establishes itself heavy and slow, you feel that something is about to change, that little punk-funk guitar will go, and in its place, there will be thousands of well-placed punches to the gut without pause, and then that scream with a voice rich in pathos and engaging, that scream that opens your heart! But it doesn't end here: among schizophrenic guitars and the slow, magma-like progression of the bass, brief choruses arrive that would make the best British craftsmen pale in comparison, then they too end, and it was already a song for multiple orgasms if not for our masters of skill who, not satisfied, conclude with a delirious, obsessive, edgy, and terribly physical amalgam! Exclamation points are plentiful here…
On its own, Donna Sumeria is worth all the new bands put together.
And you're confused, you don't understand. This The Obliterati is an album from 2006 and is played by four forty-year-olds, yet it's incredibly fresh, has thousands of things to say, and always hits the target from start to finish. Mission Of Burma are one of the best-preserved legends of American post-hardcore/noise: active in the early eighties, they release just two albums and a handful of EPs. They return in our narrow and uncertain 2006 to deliver a masterpiece. A milestone beyond compare, I would say a pillar for all alternative rock to come.
The nearly six minutes of Donna Sumeria are already a comprehensive synthesis, but also listen carefully to the extreme and anguished lyricism of 13 or (what better gateway) the Beatles spun into overdrive in the opening 2wice.
All the tracks are visceral and ferocious, at first they caress you and then hit you violently, shattering your jaw and synapses. Even the most pop, rather power-pop track, Man In Decline, hides a werewolf-like and aggressive spirit.
Enough to get emotional for all fifty minutes of the album, there isn't a track that falls short. This is the greatest gift of this musical 2006, an important and authoritative album.
Probably the album of the year. But not only…
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 2wice (03:36)
Take a look inside
What did you think you'd find
F-ed up on coke and cigarettes
With all that passes here for lies
Jet planes that fall out of black skies
and vanish without trace
You've got me dead to rights
I'm a liar
You go, I'll follow
You hide, I'll find you out
You dare find your way
You've got me dead to rights
I'm a liar
It's the leisure of the mind
Don't make me say the same thing twice
It's far quicker to pretend
"Haven't things always been this way"
Take my hand, repeat after me,
"don't make the same mistake twice"
Don't make the same mistake twice
If you step outside
What's left of what was right
There's no more north, east, south or west.
The cup is gone, the heart grows tired.
The mind is weak, the skull's on fire.
We're damaged without trace.
You've got me dead to rights
I'm a liar
You go, I'll follow
You hide, I'll fuck you up
You dare, find your way
You've got me dead to rights
I'm a liar
You've got me dead to rights
I'm a liar
You've got me dead to certain rights
I'm a liar
03 Donna Sumeria (05:37)
Inanna, I emplore you
On the banks of the Euphrates
I am under your spell
Donna Sumeria
You have many to beg for (?) you
You descend into Hell
Now it's time so please return to me
Donna Sumeria
Ooo, I want love from you
From you I want love
Now it's all done
All done
Now it is all done
Ooo, I need love from you
From you I need love
Now it's all done
All done
Now it is all done
Ooo, I love love from you
From you I love love
Now it's all done
All done
Now it is all done
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