The music and lyrics come from the depths of dreams, twelve incredible tracks and in my opinion, no one in Italy has ever dared so much! A purely acoustic rock loaded with psychedelia with a hint of Jazz, a lethal mix one might think.

The Principles musically draw inspiration from Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd but also (speaking of '90s bands) Verve and Radiohead. They are more than adolescents and don't know the musical staff very well and don't boast remarkable technique, but their creativity is out of the box, they experiment with every instrument or anything that can create a sound!!!
The lyrics are poetic and decadent, their music is sad, and the voice comes across as suffering and gloomy at many points!

But let's move on to reviewing the 12 songs of the album.
BACH FLOWERS: an acoustic, acidic and psychedelic guitar intro accompanies the traveler in the dream, where is this dream? "Nowhere" nowhere!!! Then another guitar continues with a very graceful female voice and with a lot of delay effect, it goes on like this, acoustic and psychedelic (as if brit-rock singers were covering Jefferson Airplane)
BEFORE THE DAY AFTER: another acoustic song: guitar, voice, and cymbals, sad more than ever, with a chorus that has a voice that sounds like glass about to shatter at any moment! LITTLE HILL'S PILLOW: a shining example of Jazz-psychedelic; the reverb effect à la Verve from A Storm In Heaven with jazzy drums and a guitar that, as usual, plays those usual 4 notes!
THROUGH THE DREAM: the most anonymous of the group, it doesn't have excessive length but is like a long march leading to the final explosion.
SADNESS BLUES: a magnificent text, a kind of imposing and dark blues, a precise, jazzy drum, the voice à la Thom Yorke! The best of the bunch.
NOWHERE GOING AWAY: it is alien to the mood of the album; open, sunny with just one nice chord, small and concise. It brings a lot of air!!!
DREAMING OF YOU: the resemblance to Velvet Underground is clearly noticeable. The Principles offer us a madrigal very similar to some Velvet songs like All Tomorrow's Parties, for example, but then towards the center the song continues with choruses (overdubbed by the same voice) exploding at the end!
With SEPTEMBER we return to melancholy tracks: sighs, sibylline phrases ("september take me, september kill me") and a finale very similar to that of Karma Police by Radiohead.
STRANGE SHADE OF COLOUR, a weave of electric and acoustic guitar, seems like a song from the early Pink Floyd repertoire, but it is very interesting!
BURIED ALIVE IN THE SUN only guitar and voice, beautiful, leaves you stunned, a beautiful text.
The album then closes with the bacchanal WHITE CLOUDS and the instrumental SOME SAD SONG with a completely offbeat drum and a piano full of effects.

A full four because no one has ever dared so much, then for the creativity and the lyrics. Not a five because they draw too much inspiration from the artists mentioned above and even if they mix these influences, you can still notice the various resemblances that exist. 

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