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Rating: "Demon Box", year 1993, belongs to the band's early period, when the sound was still metallic. Here the main influences of our hard-rockers converge (rather chaotically), from Neil Young to Motorhead, from Sonic Youth to the '70s, and they transition from industrial progressions to pop melodies seamlessly: the track that opens the album, "Waiting For The One", is a folkish ballad in an almost Drake-like style, while the next one, "Nothing To Say", is a power rock anthem with a highly catchy chorus; the listener is taken aback by the very violent "Feed Time", the stunning hardcore of "Sunchild", with an over-the-top lyric. Then we move to two tracks present only in the vinyl version, "Gutwrench" and "Mountain", with strong echoes of Pink Floyd, a testament to the group's great potential. We reach the softer side, especially represented by "All Is Loneliness", a cover of an old Moondog piece, and "Come On In", a guitar/vocal with a melancholic stride. This brings us to the apocalyptic title track, made of feedback and devastating noises for their own sake (Sonic Youth dominate here). Note the captivating "Junior", with a lo-fi flavor, and the splendid "Plan #1", another great classic with great pathos, featuring the American writer Matt Burt on spoken vocals. We head towards the closure with "The One That Went Away", an electric version of the first track (as in Neil Young's, "Hey, Hey, My, My" and "My, My, Hey, Hey").
In its pleasant youthful confusion this album is an extremely important step in the band's development as it consecrates them in the national scene and lays the foundations for the various developments that the sound will take in "Timothy’s Monster". A must-have for every fan of theirs.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Waiting for the One (02:50)
The wind blows the hair from your face
while you’re waiting by the porch
on this July sunny day
I see from the look in your eyes that you’re worried:
will he come today?
You won’t be here tomorrow morning,
but you said that yesterday as well
I bet I’ll see you here all summer:
waiting for the one who went away
The blueberry-dress is the one you’ll be wearing,
cos that’s the one that he said he liked
and maybe tomorrow he’ll be returning,
and all will be alright
you won’t be here...............etc
10 Babylon (02:30)
Your son's wasted, mama
and he don't care if you don't
he's hurting when he's concious,
annd forgetting when he's stoned
there's too much confusion
and too much pain
your bastard son blew it again
disillusion is the name of the game
try playing wounded when there's noone to blame
pride is the mouse and pride is the cat
why do you all have to be like that?
Babylon,oh Babylon
your gardens have pools in them now
Babylon,oh Babylon
the TV-set's your holy cow
the neighbours kid,mama
he OD'd last night
I guess something here just ain't quite right......
Babylon!
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By uno qualunque
"It is a courageous, varied, and original work, many ideas will be taken up in subsequent works."
"The album is still too raw also due to a lack of care in production, not to mention the majestic suites are missing, and the vocals are what they are."
By Armand
One is so immersed in an immediate transcendental joy that the smile it elicits remains throughout the album’s duration.
The Pandora’s box screams with a delightfully ungraceful shout that has nothing of suffering, it’s a hurricane of bloody happiness narrating invisible abrasive purities.
